On 2/17/2010 6:02 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> 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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" ... just my .02 cents. ..."

I don't understand this either, but it is probably worth more than 
two-hundredths of a cent.

David G

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