Room acoustics analysis programs?

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  • Amphiprion
    Senior Member
    • Apr 2006
    • 886

    Room acoustics analysis programs?

    I know there's some out there, but can't remember the names. I'm looking for one in particular that models the transmission/reflectance/absorption of standard materials like drywall on studs, cement floors, ceilings, etc in calculating the amplitude of room modes/frequency response. Anyone recall/know of the name? Thanks!
  • dyazdani
    Moderator Emeritus
    • Oct 2005
    • 7032

    #2
    I think CARA does this, does that ring a bell?
    Danish

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    • Amphiprion
      Senior Member
      • Apr 2006
      • 886

      #3
      That sounds familiar, I will check it out. If anyone has any other recommendations feel free to post 'em.

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      • ThomasW
        Moderator Emeritus
        • Aug 2000
        • 10933

        #4

        IB subwoofer FAQ page


        "Complicated equipment and light reflectors and various other items of hardware are enough, to my mind, to prevent the birdie from coming out." ...... Henri Cartier-Bresson

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        • Hank
          Super Senior Member
          • Jul 2002
          • 1345

          #5
          El nino: ask Jonathan and Scott - I saw them replay a customer's room analysis on a laptop - it may have been CARA they used.

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          • Kal Rubinson
            Super Senior Member
            • Mar 2006
            • 2109

            #6
            Let me just point out that CARA and RoomOptimizer are based on models of the room, not on measurements. Their analysis can be no better than the input you provide.

            Kal
            Kal Rubinson
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            • Amphiprion
              Senior Member
              • Apr 2006
              • 886

              #7
              Hank & Thomas & Kal,

              Yep, looking at Thomas's (is it Thomas' or Thomas's? Darn grammar) graphs, that's the one that I remember Scott and Jonathan using. Jonathan's been busy at work lately so I've been trying not to bother him too much. As far as being processor intensive, I'll just have to un-underclock my Athlon XP 2200+ (got it running at 650Mhz right now, keeps my bedroom nice and cool as opposed to the heat machine it is at 1.8GHz). I've got two 1GB sticks of ram coming in Friday that I'll be running in dual channel, so maybe that'll help too (though that's mostly for my matlab signal processing. Whoever was in charge of matlab memory management should be drug (dragged?) out into the street and shot).

              And damn my engineering grammar.

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              • JonP
                Senior Member
                • Apr 2006
                • 692

                #8
                SoundEasy 12 now does room reverb analysis. But on a measurment basis, rather than a modeling one. I'd guess you could use other measurment programs to gather possibly usable data, but it sounds more like you want to model the structure than the results, at this point.

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                • Martyn
                  Senior Member
                  • Feb 2006
                  • 380

                  #9
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                  Yep, looking at Thomas's (is it Thomas' or Thomas's? Darn grammar)...[/QUOTE]

                  Well, it used to be Thomas', but these days Thomas's seems to be in favour (that's probably "favor" to you). Anyway, I was just delighted to see so many apostrophes correctly deployed in a single post.

                  Ya done real good. :W

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