Analysis of traditional and reverberation-reducing methods of room equalization

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 51, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 3-26

  Fielder, Louis D ^a  

^a DOLBY LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; DIGITAL FILTERS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CINEMA ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT; MINIMUM PHASE FILTERS; REVERBERATION REDUCING METHOD; ROOM EQUALIZATION; SPECTRAL DISTORTIONS; TEMPORAL DISTORTIONS;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0037272956     PISSN: 00047554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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