11d (edited) • Audio 🎶
How to Solve for Too Much Room Reverb
Sometimes you’re setting up in a room that’s shaped like a shoebox; very wide but not very deep. This means sound from your speakers is probably slapping off the back wall and creating unintentional reverb that can kill the intelligibility of speech for both listeners and presenters. Not good.
So, how do you fix it? You can’t reshape the room, but you can consider changing your speaker placement if that’s an option. Let’s say you’ve got two clusters for mains (4 speakers) and two side fill clusters. That’s 8 speakers total but only 2 zones.
Your goal is to be able to decrease the volume enough that sound dissipates before reverberating off the back wall.
But here’s the problem: you won’t have even coverage with your current setup.
Solution: separate your clusters and spread out your speakers so that you have no dead spaces i.e., more zones. Then decrease each speaker’s output gain until you find the best volume for reaching the listeners in the back without generating too much room reverb.
Or better yet, think about the shape of your room beforehand so you have the correct setup in the first place!
Summary: Wide, shallow rooms that are prone to excessive room reverb require multiple zones of point-source audio.
Side note: you also want to keep your speakers away from walls as much as possible to avoid the boundary effect.
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How to Solve for Too Much Room Reverb
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