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Old 22nd July 2009   #13
Ethan Winer
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Originally Posted by terry j View Post
Was reasonably sure I had read you saying that by being close to them it would 'exagerate' the effects.
Yes, though if you look at that photo from the cover of Mix magazine you'll see that diffusors can be used very close to instruments intentionally. I've done a lot of listening lately to diffusors close up, and have concluded that the "conventional wisdom" of needing to be many feet away from them is just wrong.

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Ethan, I think it was your video on diffusion that I saw this, you showed the difference in the room of the decay times across the frequency bands.
My newer video Hearing is Believing lets you hear the sound of diffusion in a room from a "normal" perspective, as if you were listening in the room. This video also shows the very large improvement in the uniformity of decay times versus frequency when a lot of diffusion is used.

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