Investigations of orchestra auralizations using the multi-channel multi-source auralization technique

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 866-882

  Vigeant, Michelle C ^a,c   Wang, Lily M ^a   Rindel, Jens Holger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS;

AURALIZATION; AURALIZATIONS; COMPUTER MODELING; MULTI CHANNELS; MULTI SOURCES; OMNI-DIRECTIONAL; ROOM ACOUSTICS; SINGLE CHANNELS; SURFACE SOURCES;

ACOUSTICS;

EID: 59149098540     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3813/AAA.918105     Document Type: Article

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