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Old 19th February 2009   #24
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Originally Posted by Waltz Mastering View Post
Hi NS,

The "Ambience" program in the 300 is probably my fave of all Lex verbs.
Any background or info you can give on that would be greatly appreciated.

TW
It always comes back to Symphony Hall. Do you know the story?

Long before convolution reverbs were possible, there was a statement put forth that you could identify a specific seat in Symphony Hall by collecting the stereo sound energy of the Hall over each 10 millisecond interval and then play that energy back in the form of ambience. This is the 300 Ambience program, with a best attempt reverb following the early ambience.

In a private conversation with David about 5 years ago he told me that he thought the whole notion was rather silly, but there it is.

The forerunner to todays convolution reverbs.

I agree, it is really very nice.



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