Re: Re: Re: Practice Room


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Posted by Rick Denney on February 13, 2001 at 16:12:14:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Practice Room posted by Chris Horsch on February 13, 2001 at 14:46:13:

Waaaal, let's see. Tubby, to me, implies a sound with no interesting overtones. If you absorb all the overtones of a tuba sound, and reflect only low frequencies in a room that is still dead, then tubby is what remains.

Words sometimes fail us in describing tone. If it was a stereo, I would describe it as mid-rangy, like AM radio versus FM radio, except lower on the frequency spectrum. Take your equalizer, and turn everything below about 100 Hz and above about 250 Hz all the way down, and what remains is tubby.

It is the combination of high frequency absorbtion and low-frequency deadness--just what you get in a really small room with carpeted or egg-crated walls.

Rick "who hates a tubby-sounding room" Denney


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