i think something can be learned by using the rta feature in rew (or similar) to display the sounds that surrounds me, sometimes the response curve suprises me deeply, but i do need to find a easy way to get my measurements with absolute db values, that really would be something
do you also measure your day?
do you also measure your day?
Hi,
I don't measure sounds around me. But i use them to evaluate what i'm doing: i once was told by a loudspeaker designer that he used recording of ambience in the backyard of it's workshop he played back ( mono) to evaluate his designs.
He is used to that place where he usually chill, so is used to background noise present in there and how they should 'sound'.
Since then i regularly use the trick too.
I don't measure sounds around me. But i use them to evaluate what i'm doing: i once was told by a loudspeaker designer that he used recording of ambience in the backyard of it's workshop he played back ( mono) to evaluate his designs.
He is used to that place where he usually chill, so is used to background noise present in there and how they should 'sound'.
Since then i regularly use the trick too.
I certainly pay close attention to the sounds around me, I find them fascinating. Also the acoustics of a place - just moving around the corner from the back to the side of my house is a big change the feeling of the acoustics. And since I have a smart phone with a good number of sounds analyzers, I have fun suing them. SPL, RTA, spectrum. Just how loud is this jet I'm in, what about this turboprop? What's the spectrum of the noise? How loud is that mad rain on my metal roof? What ETC and decay of this cave?
Decades ago I read about a man in Canada who did a similar thing to what @krivium mentions. He used microphones pointed at the maple leaves outside his home to help evaluate his playback system. He knew the sound well. Lately I've been trying to do a similar thing with the rain on the metal roof. It measures like mid range white noise, and sounds just like than in a recording. But live, I can hear many individual rain drops above the noise. The have separation, weight, and a distinct "ping" to them. So far I don't hear that on playback, just noise. 🙁
Decades ago I read about a man in Canada who did a similar thing to what @krivium mentions. He used microphones pointed at the maple leaves outside his home to help evaluate his playback system. He knew the sound well. Lately I've been trying to do a similar thing with the rain on the metal roof. It measures like mid range white noise, and sounds just like than in a recording. But live, I can hear many individual rain drops above the noise. The have separation, weight, and a distinct "ping" to them. So far I don't hear that on playback, just noise. 🙁