Effects of Reverberation on Voice and Music

This page is designed to show you how a room affects the sound of voice and music. Below you will find a number of different music and speech samples as they would sound in different environments. For example, to compare speech in several room environments you would click on the links in the row labeled Speech.

Warning! The samples are in a .wav format which results in some large file sizes that may take a few moments to load.

   

Anechoic Room	Classroom	Concert Hall	Cathedral
Speech Guitar Cello Orchestral Organ Duck	Speech Guitar Cello Orchestral Organ Duck	Speech Guitar Cello Orchestral Organ Duck	Speech Guitar Cello Orchestral Organ Duck

The auralizations on this page include some copyrighted content which is used for educational purposes under Section 107 of the Copyright Act. As a result, this page has limited distribution and uncontrolled public access of those portions which include copyrighted content is not allowed.

These animations, auralizations, and visualizations are © 2006 by Ralph T. Muehleisen and are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License.