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In practice, the part we care about happens within a few seconds – perhaps less than a second in smaller rooms and/or spaces that have been acoustically treated to reduce their reverberation times. Later arrivals tend to pile on top of each other forming a decay slope. Here we see the path of direct sound from the source to the microphone in red, followed by a first order reflection in blue, a second order reflection in green and higher order reflections in gray. Reflected sound arrives later by a multitude of paths, losing energy to air and surface absorption along the way so that later arrivals tend to come in at lower and lower levels.įigure 1: An acoustical impulse response consists of sound from an excitation source arriving at a measurement position by multiple pathways, both direct and reflected. Sound traveling by the most direct path (a straight line from the source to a measurement position) arrives first and is expected to be the loudest.
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The impulse response of a system and its frequency-domain transfer function turn out to be each other’s forward and inverse Fourier transforms.Īn acoustical impulse response is created by sound radiating outward from an excitation source and bouncing around the room. The IR contains a wealth of information about an acoustical system including arrival times and frequency content of direct sound and discrete reflections, reverberant decay characteristics, signal-to-noise ratio and clues to its ability to reproduce intelligible human speech, even its overall frequency response. In the context of acoustical analysis, you might also think of an impulse response as the acoustical “signature” of a system. Smaart users of course are most often concerned with sound systems and their acoustical environments. Or, it might mean something as big as a concert hall or sports arena, as complicated an entire sound system or a combination of the two. The word “system” in this case could mean something as small as a microphone or a single transducer, something as simple as a single filter on an equalizer. What is an impulse response? In the most basic terms, an impulse response (IR) can be defined as the time domain (time vs amplitude) response of a system under test (SUT) to an impulsive stimulus.
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Editor’s Note: The following article is an excerpt from the new white paper “Smaart 7 Impulse Response Measurement and Analysis Guide,” available as a free download (pdf) from Rational Acoustics.