_Are People Becoming Too Dependent On Technology For Measuring The Acoustic Qualities Of A Room?
The subject that I have chosen to research, explore and explain for my dissertation is the subject of room acoustics. The question that I will be aiming to answer in this subject is "Are people becoming too dependent on technology for measuring the acoustic qualities of a room".
I will be exploring the various methods of measuring and recording the acoustic qualities of different sized rooms. In the written part of the dissertation I will be researching and explaining acoustical measurement through history from the formula created by Wallace Sabine through to the modern era where room acoustic measurements are taken by feeding the signal through a microphone and into a computer. In the time of convenience foods and mobile phones, which act like miniature laptop computers, I aim to hopefully discover whether or not people, and sound engineers in general, are becoming dependent on technology for measuring the acoustical qualities of a room and the reasons why.
I have a theory that technology, in the aspect of measuring room acoustics, is being used more as it does provide a convenience. The many applications that can be used simultaneously can give readings and results that come with less doubt and uncertainty than those given by human means i.e. without the use of a computer program and measurement microphone. Whilst engineers are training their ears to hear the frequencies in the sound spectrum, the work started by Wallace C. Sabine in the field of acoustics that has helped the field of sound reinforcement isn't so widely explored as a general subject. Therefore computers and programs such as Smaart are being seen as an industry standard when the subject of measuring a room's acoustics arises.
This website will be used to document and exhibit the experiments and test that I will be carrying out on four different sized rooms. For each room I will be measuring the acoustical qualities of that room using the methods that have been used since the days of Sabine and Eyring and then measuring The room will then be measured again, but this time with technological means using a measurement microphone and a laptop computer.
I will be exploring the various methods of measuring and recording the acoustic qualities of different sized rooms. In the written part of the dissertation I will be researching and explaining acoustical measurement through history from the formula created by Wallace Sabine through to the modern era where room acoustic measurements are taken by feeding the signal through a microphone and into a computer. In the time of convenience foods and mobile phones, which act like miniature laptop computers, I aim to hopefully discover whether or not people, and sound engineers in general, are becoming dependent on technology for measuring the acoustical qualities of a room and the reasons why.
I have a theory that technology, in the aspect of measuring room acoustics, is being used more as it does provide a convenience. The many applications that can be used simultaneously can give readings and results that come with less doubt and uncertainty than those given by human means i.e. without the use of a computer program and measurement microphone. Whilst engineers are training their ears to hear the frequencies in the sound spectrum, the work started by Wallace C. Sabine in the field of acoustics that has helped the field of sound reinforcement isn't so widely explored as a general subject. Therefore computers and programs such as Smaart are being seen as an industry standard when the subject of measuring a room's acoustics arises.
This website will be used to document and exhibit the experiments and test that I will be carrying out on four different sized rooms. For each room I will be measuring the acoustical qualities of that room using the methods that have been used since the days of Sabine and Eyring and then measuring The room will then be measured again, but this time with technological means using a measurement microphone and a laptop computer.