"The room is the first thing we start with and the last thing we think about." --unknown Welcome to the first in our series of articles on acoustics. We strongly believe that room acoustics are the ...

A filter is a device which separates out a portion of the frequency spectrum of a sound signal from the total, this is shown in Figure 1.52. Figure 1.52 The effect of different filter types. There are ...

Acoustics is the science of sound, encompassing its production, transmission, and reception. Sound is ever present in all environments and, as a discipline, has applications in the earth sciences, ...

Meet Steven Turner, curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, as he discusses the Smithsonian's scientific instrument collection. This video focuses on the history of acoustics ...

So far we have only considered the amplitude of single sources of sound. However, in most practical situations more than one source of sound is present; these may result from other musical instruments ...