Sound
So acoustics… that’s like sound or some shit right? Not exactly. Acoustics is a science that deals with the study of sound, or in other words, how sound reacts in an environment. Think of sound as a lion, and the jungle is its habitat a.k.a the acoustical environment. If you put the lion in the middle of Chicago and let it run loose, it’s going to react differently. It’s the same with acoustics. Each and every space is going to have a different effect on the sound that is being dispersed. Obviously, no one would let a lion run loose in the city of Chicago. Although, there are reports of cougars running lose. Maybe someone was having an acoustics experiment? Alright… enough with the cheesy animal jokes, let’s get down to business.
Like us, acoustics has a good and an evil side. Well… a good and a bad side. The good side of course has the good sound quality, the architecture is built so that its fit for the sound that is being distributed throughout the space. The dark side of acoustics would have terrible sound quality, its architecture isn’t made for sound performance, and who ever is speaking/whoever is performing their music would stink. Well they would appear to be stinky, even though it’s actually the environment that their playing their instruments in smells….and it smells really bad. Not literally, but if ears could smell…it would be really weird and interesting. I can’t imagine hearing through my nose. That would be pretty awkward.
So how we doing so far? Good? Hopefully I haven’t confused you too much. Now that I have given you a vague and weird idea of acoustics I’m going to go into a little bit more detail on how they work. So I chatted a little bit about bad acoustics and how lions are going to take over Chicago and what not, and I’d like to get into a little bit more detail about that. What can we do about bad acoustics? Well usually the environment of the sound being distributed would have to be built...
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