The effect of loudness on the reverberance of music: Reverberance prediction using loudness models
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- Journal Article
- Citation:
- Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2012, 131 (2), pp. 1194 - 1205
- Issue Date:
- 2012-02-01
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This study examines the auditory attribute that describes the perceived amount of reverberation, known as reverberance. Listening experiments were performed using two signals commonly heard in auditoria: excerpts of orchestral music and western classical singing. Listeners adjusted the decay rate of room impulse responses prior to convolution with these signals, so as to match the reverberance of each stimulus to that of a reference stimulus. The analysis examines the hypothesis that reverberance is related to the loudness decay rate of the underlying room impulse response. This hypothesis is tested using computational models of time varying or dynamic loudness, from which parameters analogous to conventional reverberation parameters (early decay time and reverberation time) are derived. The results show that listening level significantly affects reverberance, and that the loudness-based parameters outperform related conventional parameters. Results support the proposed relationship between reverberance and the computationally predicted loudness decay function of sound in rooms. © 2012 Acoustical Society of America.
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