Hi everyone, Dennis Foley from Acoustic Fields. Today we're gonna talk about room personality
formation. I've talked to a lot of people and the hardest part for me is to figure out what
kind of sound you want from your room. How much involvement do you want the room to be in your
sound? And we always start with the low frequency first. You know, what do you like in the low
end? What do you like in the middle and high frequencies? And... Trying to quantify that
for people, that's a really hard thing to do. The more experience someone has listening,
the easier it is for them to explain what they like and easier for me to understand. But the
point of all this is that we can change things in the room to match what you require if we
just walk through a few steps. Our bodies are kind of shells for our personality, right?
Body acts as transport and a shield. It moves our brain around. I don't know, for me the
brain is so much a part of the personality that we need to use it more, right? So our self
is inside our body shell and our life experience forms our personality and how we act to situations
and all litany of things. Well, room experience, it can produce that same kind of changes that
can't same kind of personality changes we can view the room kind of as a person and we can
impact personality changes. So, you know, there's all kinds of ways humans do it counseling,
drugs, all kinds of ways to alter personality, but you can conform your room personality to
match yours if you just give a little thought to it because in the past, you know people
always used to say Well, I can never get the low end of the room right. Well, the reason
for that was there was no technology available to give you that kind of relief. Well, we have
that today with our carbon technology. We can get you a low end in your room just as tight,
clean, and distinct and separate as the mid-range. And we have that kind of technology today.
What does your music self-require? That's... That's the key. And you should be honest with
yourself. Admit to yourself what you want, what you don't want, what you can live with, what
you can't live with. And then that forms the basis for a strategy. And then we can take
the steps and tactics to ask. Low-frequency extension. How about attack and decay rates?
Do you like that strong fundamental punch with the long tail? We can get that. Do you like
everything to kind of be a little bit shorter in time? Okay, we can do that too. There's
a lot of flexibility in what we can do. Reverb times. Obviously we want to match usage, but
we also want to match the personality that you like. Some people like more reverberation than
others. It's a subjective thing. There's no right or wrong. It's what you like. It's what
your personality is all about. Cycle acoustics. Do you need a larger room size? in the presentation.
We can do that. We can make the room sound larger using diffusion. Depending on the usage, it
determines where we're going to place it and a whole litany of other variables. Define your
music that you like and make your room align with that goal. That's got to be the goal.
You got to try to match what you like and then eliminate the problems that the room produces
that go against what you want and like. It's the balance of music self with the room self.
That's what you're trying to do. You got to have full range resolution though to accomplish
this. You got to have good gear that's able to resolve fundamentals and harmonics. And
the room must have high resolution also. So it's going to take some square footage of coverages,
both low, middle, and high frequency, to make those personality changes. Room personality
formation. We can get this more aligned than we've ever been able to, because our technology
has improved dramatically. Not so much in the whole industry, I would say, but ours has for
sure. Room personality formation. I hope this helps. Thank you. Thank you for watching this
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