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Subject: [Hornlist] Empirical horn transfer function


> Professor Baker  -
>
> this is an interesting idea and I say bravo for thinking along such lines 
> in response to a common, practical problem.  I think such mucking around 
> in the frequency domain is commonly done in generating/editing audio for 
> certain effects, and in many recording and production circumstances.
>
> The problem is with this idea applied to recording is that the acoustic 
> environment around a horn (the room) and its interaction with the horn and 
> the microphones is fundamentally NOT a linear system.   There are all 
> kinds of nonlinear coupling and effects in such a complex acoustic system. 
> Probably to a weak first-order approximation this transfer-function could 
> be made, but I believe your suggestion relies on clean, 
> linear-superposition of the behind and front acoustic signals, which would 
> not be very accurate in a real situation.  Check out the literature on 
> acoustic source-separation and you'll find this problem ubiquitous in 
> similar tasks.
>
> just my .02 cents.  this would not be hard to mock-up in MATLAB sometime 
> and try it out.
>
> any other thoughts anyone?
>
> david - physics and horn performance student
>
>
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