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Anechoic Sources

The anechoic sources for these simulations came from a variety of sources:

henry v

Speech


The speech signal was segment taken from a close mic recording of the famous "rally the troops" speech from Shakespeare's Henry V play.  The recording was obtained from Henry5.mp3 by acclivity from  The Freesound project.  The .mp3 was converted to a 44.1 kHz .wav file and background hiss was removed using Adobe Audition. This sample is licenced under the Creative Commons License

Guitar


The guitar sample is an excerpt from Bourre by J.S.Bach taken from the Bang & Olufsen "Music for Archimedes" anechoic recording CD that comes with CATT acoustics.@ Bang and Olufsen

Cello


The cello sample is an exceprt from "Variation and Theme No. 2" by Weber also taken from the Bang & Olufsen "Music for Archimedes" anechoic recording CD that comes with CATT acoustics. @ Bang and Olufsen
marriage of figaro

Orchestral


The orchestral sample is an excerpt from the Overture from Mozart's "Le Nozzi di Figaro" taken from the Denon "Anechoic Orchestral Music Recording" CD. @ Denon Corp.
organ

Organ


Anechoic recording of a church organ is a very difficult task since large church organs cannot be placed in anechoic chambers for recordings.  In this case the file was electronically generated using a MIDI file of Bach's "Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor"  and the Audio Compositor MIDI renderer software package.  The organ "soft font" was obtained from the Chaos Bank Sound Font.
photo of daisy the duck in the Salford Anechoic Chamber

Duck


The anechoic recording of a duck quack was obtained in .wav format from theThe University of Salford Acoustics Web page .   The photo was taken from the Salford web page and shows Daisy the Duck in the Chamber. @ University of Salford.

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