Saxophone in Reverberation Room and Anechoic Chamber

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Naomi plays her Alt Saxophone in the Anechoic Chamber and in the Reverberation Room of the acoustic laboratories of the University of Salford:
acoustictesting.salford.ac.uk...
and
acoustictesting.salford.ac.uk...
Recorded in February 2016, after a lecture of the MSc Acoustics.
Camera: iPhone 5c (audio has not been adjusted or edited afterwards).
Also check out this video of me clapping my hands in a very large reverberant space: • Long Flutter Echo in B... .
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@AWlpsSHOW36 Жыл бұрын

Holy crap, hearing the sudden cut out of noise was so freaking freaky and insane! Makes you realise that no matter what kind of room or building you are in there will always be an echo or vibration. I can see how disorientating and crazy it must be to be in the Anechoic Chamber.

@insederec Жыл бұрын

It's impossible to describe, if you have a university nearby see if they'll let you take a tour of one. You've never heard silence like that before. It's deafening.

@redribbonzx7207 Жыл бұрын

@@insederec If someone in Anechoic Chamber just to hear how quiet it is, without playing/testing any music instrument, won't that be the same as wearing an earplug?

@insederec Жыл бұрын

@@redribbonzx7207 Not quite. You do hear your own heartbeat but there's something you can't really explain about it.

@redgunnit Жыл бұрын

@@insederec Apparently the longer you spend in one, the more you can hear your own blood move and organs work. Sounds stress inducing.

@beemoh Жыл бұрын

I saw a video ages ago of someone popping a balloon in an Anechoic Chamber. That's a strange one to watch.

@JorgeGeorgeD 7 жыл бұрын

Sounds like my 15$ Casio keyboard

@NatsumiTakanawa 7 жыл бұрын

fucking hilarious

@corbygray1868 2 жыл бұрын

It would be funny if you put £ instead of $ it’s a uk university

@redpoint6870 2 жыл бұрын

That's part of the reason why compact reverbs were invented

@ChrisLeeW00 Жыл бұрын

Casio keyboard + reverb pedal sounds pretty good tbh

@MrChristoferoful Жыл бұрын

Did you get a skeet blanket and a knee board?

@PocketUau Жыл бұрын

Imagine if all instruments used for a song are recorded individually in that silent room. Imagine the precision of that recording.

@drlibro2669 Жыл бұрын

That's actually pretty close to how it's done.

@methyod Жыл бұрын

Pretty rare to do everything in a completely acoustically dead room. Usually you're shooting for some amount of "room sound". Depends on what you're doing of course.

@aquarius5264 Жыл бұрын

@@methyod not really, typically echo is something a musician would want to minimize, at least most of the time.

@Nichi-Ji Жыл бұрын

Laughs in direct input

@aquarius5264 Жыл бұрын

@@Nichi-Ji laughs in more variety in tone

@jimturpin Жыл бұрын

Wow, when you switched the anechoic chamber, it sounded like you were right here in front of me. Amazing how we take cues from the echos to determine the size of the area around us.

@blubblub3615 7 жыл бұрын

they should record all music in there

@ohmyflippiningod 7 жыл бұрын

BinBox thats what the room is for

@potestoniko 7 жыл бұрын

actually it would be kinda bad idea, sometimes the echoes and stuff in the room add to the quality of the audio, making it a little bit more organic

@eydddun 7 жыл бұрын

BinBox why the fuck are people so autisticly idiotic that they can't understand the fucking joke?

@potestoniko 7 жыл бұрын

oh wait, dont need to be rude, jajaja, i didnt got that it was actually a joke, :/

@deathtrooper199 7 жыл бұрын

I sense another argument coming in

@shatteredsquare 7 жыл бұрын

0:32 holy shit that's reverb makes everything sound better, the guys speech by itself diffused into notes and pitches!

@gangstreG123 3 жыл бұрын

I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now...

@leandrusi4533 Жыл бұрын

I disagree...

@q12aw50 Жыл бұрын

You’re just objectively wrong. The professional playing is right, it makes it sound horrible.

@MixMastaCopyCat Жыл бұрын

@@q12aw50 Okay, if this is an objective evaluation, then what are the metrics we're using to reach the conclusion that it sounds horrible?

@deleteddeleted4120 26 күн бұрын

@@MixMastaCopyCat The speech recognition could be that metric, for example.

@zName1 7 жыл бұрын

0:28 That's jazzy.

@dmil8980 7 жыл бұрын

Vozella Ya like Jazz? :^)

@rapiddave9268 7 жыл бұрын

So jazzy that uncle Phil threw it out the front door.

@DjSunexx 7 жыл бұрын

kind of missing a resolve

@mistertwister2000 7 жыл бұрын

Ya like *J A Z Z*?

@HX999CAMS 6 жыл бұрын

Vozella i

@insanecumposse 7 жыл бұрын

music for your soul

@jedimasterjoe5386 7 жыл бұрын

poor aron

@MaxmusTrngl Жыл бұрын

my soulmate is you ❤❤❤

@insanecumposse Жыл бұрын

@@MaxmusTrngl shut up

@craigsurette3438 8 ай бұрын

As a synth player, who regularly hears everything I play very dry through headphones, I now COMPLETELY understand why artificial reverberation became such a BIG deal in early recording tech. You absolutely need to hear the room resonating and responding to the sound as part of it to make the sound sound "alive" in the ways we are used to hearing sounds. Life ALWAYS has reverb on it when we hear it.

@Hello.Henning 8 ай бұрын

Completely right! Reverberation is very important for musicians and it needs to be provided either artificially via the monitoring headphones or from the room itself. The latter comes with the problem that you cannot easily reduce the reverberation afterwards. But with larger groups of musicians, it's often not feasible to provide good monitoring via headphones to everybody, hence, a live (reverberant) recording room is often used for those scenarios. I recently visited the CIRMMT Multi Media Room in Montreal, which is a large space in which the reverberation time can be changed for research purposes, via extendable absorptive surfaces and artificially via loudspeakers: www.cirmmt.org/en/facilities

@jmack8767 8 ай бұрын

True, but a reverbless tone has it's own charm...

@Timsturbs 5 күн бұрын

kinda yes but no. just dont set your synth or sampler decay to zero. most of the time its better to avoid usage of reverb.

@joemccarthywascorrect6240 10 ай бұрын

I still remember the first time I was in a “Dead Room” (anechoic chamber) - it was almost like being able to see the words leave your mouth and just fall to the floor…

@Arclite02 10 ай бұрын

And then you gradually realize that faint background noise you're hearing is the sound of your own BLOOD... Those rooms are awesome, but freaky as hell!

@joshifghg 7 жыл бұрын

Lisa! Stop that racket!

@ryan34ssj 7 жыл бұрын

YoMonster saxamaphone*

@bigbossmatt 7 жыл бұрын

I didn't say stop

@GaryKetchum808 6 жыл бұрын

I love the sound of the reverberation chamber.

@ScottyHunter 6 жыл бұрын

I had no idea the floor was a giant bouncy mat inside an Anechoic chamber!! I feel like I need to bounce around inside it before I die. Adding to bucket list.

@johncochran8497 Жыл бұрын

Don't want sound reflecting off a hard floor, so they line the floor just like they line the walls and ceiling. But then there's that little issue of walking and standing on those projections into the room. Which they solve by suspending a taut net to walk on.

@ChadwickTheChad Жыл бұрын

That's it mate - you're going STRAIGHT to the reverberation room!

@crapadopalese 6 жыл бұрын

0:28 - no jazz player can avoid playing The Lick

@mickrobertson7782 4 жыл бұрын

Thaaaat's a bit of a stretch.

@quanicle101 3 жыл бұрын

not quite but almost

@paulwagner4028 3 жыл бұрын

nope nice try

@godisbollocks 3 жыл бұрын

I don't think I'd ever played it until I heard about it maybe 3 or 4 years ago. I never thought to play it.

@F0nkyNinja 3 жыл бұрын

it's not even the lick

@OrbiliusMagister 3 жыл бұрын

I just discovered a jem: for those who fell in love with Jean Michel Jarre some decades ago, "Rendez-vous 5 (Ron's Piece)" is an emotional piece featuring synth pads and strings with long reverb under a solo sax *with no reverb at all*. This was the first song scheduled to be recorded from outer space. Mission Specialist Ron McNair brought his soprano saxophone on board to do the solo on the Space Shuttle Challenger, but never had the chance as the Challenger exploded. After the explosion, Jarre changed the title of the song in honor of Ron. That particular sound boggled me until I listened to this video: the lack of reverb conveys the idea of the lack of air in space. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oNp3epSIsbaVoJ8.html

@kaniphish 3 жыл бұрын

0:20 when Disneys Little Einsteins need to find the way to the Waterfall by listening for the right song.

@psychedelia6891 7 жыл бұрын

this was amazing!

@waffler-yz3gw 10 ай бұрын

that immediate cut on the first note in the triangle room was crazy

@positivevibes4646 6 жыл бұрын

Imagine the sleep you could get in this room! 😍😍😍

@Hello.Henning 6 жыл бұрын

Actually lots of people refer to anechoic chambers as having an uncomfortable effect on them and they don't want to stay in it very long.. But I agree: Your sleep would definitely not be interrupted :D

@q12aw50 Жыл бұрын

You would LITERALLY go insane. Like that’s not a metaphor you will start to lose it

@geminirox8635 Жыл бұрын

How would a lack of echoes affect your sleep? How often are you being awoken by the reverberation of your own sleep sounds?

@nicktallfox5266 8 ай бұрын

The silence of that room would make your own heartbeat the loudest thing you hear. I've heard it's not pleasant.

@buttcrack7784 Ай бұрын

Having been in an anechoic chamber I can tell you that you most likely would go insane before you fell asleep. Very weird environment.

@LeeRedfieldmusic 3 жыл бұрын

Love it!

@joeblankenship377 Ай бұрын

Used to get up early on Sunday mornings to go play my bari in the stairwell of the music building. Sounded awesome.

@nadloes6343 7 жыл бұрын

where's all the comments

@RacinZilla003 7 жыл бұрын

They were silenced

@Delta-lg7hh 3 жыл бұрын

@@RacinZilla003 damn thats a ratio if ive ever seen one

@midnighthustle1201 Жыл бұрын

In the reverb chamber.

@MIRROREDRECOLLECTION Жыл бұрын

Always wondered what a saxophone in reverberation room and anechoic chamber sounded like.

@estherday2239 6 жыл бұрын

it still sounds good. love saxophone

@FlyGuy2000 5 ай бұрын

She is having so much fun!

@eofsentinel 7 жыл бұрын

Notice how the amount of sound vibrations to the microphone decreases when she turns around in the anechoic chamber

@Groove81TV 10 ай бұрын

great for sampling recording ! :) thx

@ninjaslash52_98 7 жыл бұрын

Sounds better in the room I hate the echo

@dystrophic 7 жыл бұрын

Sounds better in which room? The Anechoic chamber is ANechoic, meaning there is no echo there. The other place was a reverberation room.

@Capybaraism 6 жыл бұрын

*PHILISTINE*

@undererock 6 жыл бұрын

thank you for this

@zaidlacksalastname4905 22 күн бұрын

This needs to be used for digital musical creation. So much cool stuff

@davidcooke8005 11 ай бұрын

I want one so bad. It sounds so clean in there.

@TeamDragofied 6 жыл бұрын

the anechoic part sounds like shes standing right in front of you. incredible echo muffling

@Theomite 6 жыл бұрын

It would be interesting to hear a jazz quartet record a song in both rooms and see which one sounds better/more interesting.

@onlyconnect88 5 ай бұрын

Lot of the best jazz records from 30s/40s shound, by today's standards, like they were recorded in an anacoustic chamber

@TravisLawrence12 12 күн бұрын

I studied here and worked in both of those rooms!

@yourma-uh5um Жыл бұрын

I didn't even know there was one of those at Salford uni, would've definitely checked it out had I know.

@bobshiruncle7746 Жыл бұрын

So many good vibrations in the reverb chamber. The Beach Boys certainly knew what they were singing about when they recorded Help Me Rhonda

@skylark4901 6 ай бұрын

That is a trip!

@NordicDan 8 ай бұрын

Those chambers are absolutely surreal. Not sure what mic they were using (the built-in mic of the cameraman's iPhone I would expect?) but it was crazy hearing even the soft clicking of the valves and like another commenter said, the sudden cut off at the end of each note was downright freaky.

@Hello.Henning 8 ай бұрын

It's the unedited audio from the iPhone 5c, as mentioned in the video description ;)

@1love_train 11 күн бұрын

no Auto tune no echoes just pure talent

@xmanxmansyr3147 7 жыл бұрын

Awesome

@jborn730 4 ай бұрын

Sounds so much clearer in the special room.

@TommyOnSax 6 жыл бұрын

Nice Video!

@jmack8767 8 ай бұрын

I don't think it sounds horrible in the anechoic chamber at all. I don't know what she means! All the specificities if technique come out and are sharper, and it clarifies the timbre. I think it sounds cool.

@FA-sr6lx 7 жыл бұрын

holy crap it soundssss so much better in the isolated room.

@Peter-ff1tp Жыл бұрын

No, it’s just easier to record. Music played in there will be very boring.

@anthonyfryer742 6 жыл бұрын

Love the echo room so full

@arsaeterna4285 7 жыл бұрын

sounds soo sweet in the anechoic chamber

@WillyBernardus 7 жыл бұрын

Very good to record direct sound

@vladvalo 10 ай бұрын

Woah, sound

@deleteddeleted4120 26 күн бұрын

Sounds much better in the anechoic chamber. I wish my room be that muffled, I would listen to the music for hours in there.

@CraigWhargoul Жыл бұрын

Looks happy!

@dannyarcher6370 Жыл бұрын

The sax in the anechoic chamber is so sharp.

@docolemnsx Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the many hours spent practising my trumpet in loud bathrooms, only to go to class in a mute room and have my lips fall off in the first 10 minutes.

@squoblat 3 жыл бұрын

I've been in this room, balance felt really off after a while and talking was surreal.

@jeffchilton Жыл бұрын

I was in a reverberation chamber once and had to pass gas, but I knew if I did I'd never hear the end of it.

@Zombertino 3 күн бұрын

I went into an anechoich chamber in an university and after 10 seconds, I could hear my heartbeat, the blood flowing in my neck through my jugular and aorta. I then turned my head to look towards the door, because i already wanted out and heard my neck vertebrae turning on the discs. Just be ready if you go, all i'm sayin' 😂

@robertsteel2004 13 күн бұрын

It would be interesting to spend a little time in there, I wonder how much we use echo in conversation .

@SpidermanFan92 Жыл бұрын

hearing the sound cut out like that was crazy!

@aaryanpanwar6405 2 жыл бұрын

Clean af

@GauravChandyeahthisistheone 7 жыл бұрын

real music

@mattro7107 7 жыл бұрын

what in tarnation

@KaizerMan 7 жыл бұрын

What in reverberation

@KaiservonKrieger 7 жыл бұрын

Matt Ro what in anechoic chamber?

@illwill2453 7 жыл бұрын

Which is supposed to be better? I like anechoic room better - makes the sound of instrument more pure.

@q12aw50 Жыл бұрын

Neither they’re both horrible

@borntoclimb7116 Жыл бұрын

Wow

@vpryt18 Жыл бұрын

0:16 how do we hear the sax while she is blocking the waves and the walls aren't reflecting any? Is it her body vibrating?

@Hello.Henning Жыл бұрын

It's probably mainly diffraction of waves around her body.

@hainguyenngoc7500 Жыл бұрын

How many dB(A) for the sound test on video?

@bluebaconjake405 2 жыл бұрын

Woah

@warlockpaladin2261 Жыл бұрын

Surprisingly clear and crisp, but the reverb is part of its power in a normal setting.

@notemo212 6 жыл бұрын

Mighty jazzy

@pyeltd.5457 6 күн бұрын

Lise Simpson tunes on Hit & Run.

@guynamedlove6426 Жыл бұрын

those arpeggios sound great

@Tadesan 10 ай бұрын

That reverb chamber is amazing.

@ezmarke 24 күн бұрын

Need to try a vacuum chamber next !

@Klomp1 4 жыл бұрын

0:28 sounded like a part of the Cagney and Lacey theme

@nathanwilson2116 Жыл бұрын

Weird randomly finding and watching this video, whilst living right next to salford uni

@ReksratYTB 3 жыл бұрын

Why does it hurt so much for the sound to just cut off like that?

@CGDubz87 Жыл бұрын

Tornado sirens in the midwest be like: 0:13

@syllavr4584 3 жыл бұрын

Holy shit the anechoic chamber makes it sound gated

@joshuamaney7902 Ай бұрын

Cool how you can hear the pads

@Gildas_djdb 29 күн бұрын

You could also use a cathedral as a reverberation room I think

@themechanix2311 7 жыл бұрын

This is great and all but where is Naomi? all I see is Abigail and her sax

@macabrecreation1067 Жыл бұрын

ahhh... the best cure for my tinnitus

@Syllogyzym 3 жыл бұрын

What's with all the stuff hanging from the ceiling?

@CanceriousIG 3 жыл бұрын

Trippy

@harleyknoss3212 Жыл бұрын

I would love to take my bari there.

@joshioaz85 7 жыл бұрын

holy saxophone

@ledfloyd9035 7 жыл бұрын

What... There's no 10 minute intro with an update on your life, channel and random shit nobody cares about? YOU CAN'T JUST GO STRAIGHT TO A VIDEO LIKE THAT I DON'T KNOW HOW TO HANDLE MY FEELS NOW

@zxxczczczcz 3 жыл бұрын