#WHEN I RECORD IT ECHOS PLUS#

That is the four walls plus the floor and ceiling. Oblique modes involve the sound bouncing off all six sides of the room. The four surfaces could be the four walls or two walls, the floor, and the ceiling.

Tangential modes involve four surfaces for the sound wave to reflect off as it loops around the room. The sound bounces between opposite walls or the floor and ceiling. There can be three types of room modes, Axial, Tangential, and Oblique.Īxial is the simplest mode. These modes are the diverse ways sound can bounce around within the room space. This will give the room a ‘lively’ acoustic.Ī room will have a property known as ‘modes’. Surfaces, such as glass, stone, tiles, plasterboard, and wood are very reflective and will enhance the reflection of the sound. In an empty room, if the flat hard walls, floor, and ceilings are parallel, the sound will bounce back and fore between the reflective surfaces. But in normal domestic rooms, the echo is better described as a reverberation. Large rooms and rooms with lofty ceilings can produce quite distinct echoes. Īs mentioned above, the echo is usually a little quieter than the direct sound traveling to your ear. If the delay between the first and second ‘snap’ sounds is long enough, you will hear the second ‘snap’ as an echo. This will be followed by the reflected ‘snap’ taking the indirect route. So, when you snap your fingers you will hear the sound taking the direct route first. Since the second route is longer, the reflected ‘snap’ sound will take longer to reach your ears. The ‘snap’ sound will travel from your fingers to the wall, be reflected, and travel to your ears. The first route is the direct one, from your fingers straight to your ears. If you stand opposite a flat wall and snap your fingers, the sound of the ‘snap’ will reach your ears by two routes. Why do some rooms sound better than others?.What’s the minimum room size to hear echoes?.

When i record it echos