Saxophone in Reverberation Room and Anechoic Chamber

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  • čas přidán 11. 02. 2016
  • 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... .
    If you need help with the acoustical design of spaces, with the sound isolation between spaces, or anything else related to sound and vibration, check out the website of the company I work for. We are experts in the field of acoustics and we can help you with all those things: bkl.ca/what-we-do
    To use this video in a commercial player or in broadcasts, please email licensing@storyful.com

Komentáře • 425

  • @AWlpsSHOW36
    @AWlpsSHOW36 Před rokem +4496

    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
      @insederec Před rokem +112

      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
      @redribbonzx7207 Před rokem +18

      @@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
      @insederec Před rokem +47

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

    • @redgunnit
      @redgunnit Před rokem +46

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

    • @beemoh
      @beemoh Před rokem +14

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

  • @JorgeGeorgeD
    @JorgeGeorgeD Před 7 lety +5458

    Sounds like my 15$ Casio keyboard

    • @NatsumiTakanawa
      @NatsumiTakanawa Před 7 lety +149

      fucking hilarious

    • @corbygray1868
      @corbygray1868 Před 2 lety +47

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

    • @redpoint6870
      @redpoint6870 Před 2 lety +24

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

    • @ChrisLeeW00
      @ChrisLeeW00 Před rokem +23

      Casio keyboard + reverb pedal sounds pretty good tbh

    • @MrChristoferoful
      @MrChristoferoful Před rokem +4

      Did you get a skeet blanket and a knee board?

  • @PocketUau
    @PocketUau Před rokem +1959

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

    • @drlibro2669
      @drlibro2669 Před rokem +291

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

    • @methyod
      @methyod Před rokem +237

      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
      @aquarius5264 Před rokem +36

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

    • @Nichi-Ji
      @Nichi-Ji Před rokem +129

      Laughs in direct input

    • @aquarius5264
      @aquarius5264 Před rokem +10

      @@Nichi-Ji laughs in more variety in tone

  • @jimturpin
    @jimturpin Před rokem +450

    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
    @blubblub3615 Před 7 lety +2349

    they should record all music in there

    • @ohmyflippiningod
      @ohmyflippiningod Před 7 lety +77

      BinBox thats what the room is for

    • @potestoniko
      @potestoniko Před 7 lety +331

      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
      @eydddun Před 7 lety +30

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

    • @potestoniko
      @potestoniko Před 7 lety +27

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

    • @deathtrooper199
      @deathtrooper199 Před 7 lety +5

      I sense another argument coming in

  • @shatteredsquare
    @shatteredsquare Před 7 lety +1031

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

    • @gangstreG123
      @gangstreG123 Před 3 lety +35

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

    • @leandrusi4533
      @leandrusi4533 Před rokem +17

      I disagree...

    • @q12aw50
      @q12aw50 Před rokem +4

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

    • @MixMastaCopyCat
      @MixMastaCopyCat Před rokem +18

      @@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
      @deleteddeleted4120 Před měsícem +1

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

  • @insanecumposse
    @insanecumposse Před 7 lety +227

    music for your soul

  • @zName1
    @zName1 Před 7 lety +566

    0:28 That's jazzy.

  • @joshifghg
    @joshifghg Před 7 lety +184

    Lisa! Stop that racket!

  • @joemccarthywascorrect6240
    @joemccarthywascorrect6240 Před 11 měsíci +38

    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
      @Arclite02 Před 10 měsíci +10

      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!

  • @craigsurette3438
    @craigsurette3438 Před 9 měsíci +21

    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
      @Hello.Henning  Před 9 měsíci +2

      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
      @jmack8767 Před 8 měsíci

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

    • @Timsturbs
      @Timsturbs Před 21 dnem

      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.

  • @GaryKetchum808
    @GaryKetchum808 Před 6 lety +119

    I love the sound of the reverberation chamber.

  • @OrbiliusMagister
    @OrbiliusMagister Před 3 lety +118

    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.
    czcams.com/video/jtGG1WLP1pk/video.html

  • @ChadwickTheChad
    @ChadwickTheChad Před rokem +152

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

  • @ScottyHunter
    @ScottyHunter Před 6 lety +53

    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
      @johncochran8497 Před rokem +11

      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.

  • @waffler-yz3gw
    @waffler-yz3gw Před 11 měsíci +6

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

  • @psychedelia6891
    @psychedelia6891 Před 7 lety +9

    this was amazing!

  • @kaniphish
    @kaniphish Před 3 lety +54

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

  • @crapadopalese
    @crapadopalese Před 6 lety +476

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

  • @LeeRedfieldmusic
    @LeeRedfieldmusic Před 3 lety +3

    Love it!

  • @MIRROREDRECOLLECTION
    @MIRROREDRECOLLECTION Před rokem +7

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

  • @FlyGuy2000
    @FlyGuy2000 Před 6 měsíci

    She is having so much fun!

  • @nadloes6343
    @nadloes6343 Před 7 lety +62

    where's all the comments

  • @estherday2239
    @estherday2239 Před 7 lety +1

    it still sounds good. love saxophone

  • @positivevibes4646
    @positivevibes4646 Před 6 lety +20

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

    • @Hello.Henning
      @Hello.Henning  Před 6 lety +19

      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
      @q12aw50 Před rokem +3

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

    • @geminirox8635
      @geminirox8635 Před rokem +1

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

    • @nicktallfox5266
      @nicktallfox5266 Před 8 měsíci

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

    • @buttcrack7784
      @buttcrack7784 Před měsícem

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

  • @joeblankenship377
    @joeblankenship377 Před měsícem

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

  • @undererock
    @undererock Před 6 lety

    thank you for this

  • @TeamDragofied
    @TeamDragofied Před 6 lety +48

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

  • @eofsentinel
    @eofsentinel Před 7 lety +8

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

  • @zaidlacksalastname4905
    @zaidlacksalastname4905 Před měsícem

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

  • @1love_train
    @1love_train Před 27 dny

    no Auto tune
    no echoes
    just pure talent

  • @davidcooke8005
    @davidcooke8005 Před rokem +2

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

  • @ninjaslash52_98
    @ninjaslash52_98 Před 7 lety +30

    Sounds better in the room I hate the echo

    • @dystrophic
      @dystrophic Před 7 lety +2

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

    • @Capybaraism
      @Capybaraism Před 6 lety +1

      *PHILISTINE*

  • @Groove81TV
    @Groove81TV Před 11 měsíci +1

    great for sampling recording ! :) thx

  • @Theomite
    @Theomite Před 6 lety +17

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

  • @skylark4901
    @skylark4901 Před 6 měsíci

    That is a trip!

  • @onlyconnect88
    @onlyconnect88 Před 6 měsíci +2

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

  • @jeffchilton
    @jeffchilton Před rokem +4

    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.

  • @TravisLawrence12
    @TravisLawrence12 Před 28 dny

    I studied here and worked in both of those rooms!

  • @anthonyfryer742
    @anthonyfryer742 Před 6 lety +2

    Love the echo room so full

  • @jborn730
    @jborn730 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Sounds so much clearer in the special room.

  • @arsaeterna4285
    @arsaeterna4285 Před 7 lety +5

    sounds soo sweet in the anechoic chamber

  • @xmanxmansyr3147
    @xmanxmansyr3147 Před 7 lety

    Awesome

  • @vladvalo
    @vladvalo Před 11 měsíci

    Woah, sound

  • @bobshiruncle7746
    @bobshiruncle7746 Před rokem

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

  • @CraigWhargoul
    @CraigWhargoul Před rokem

    Looks happy!

  • @Sennakools
    @Sennakools Před 15 dny

    went into an anechoic chamber once on a uni tour, its so quiet you can hear the blood in your ears rushing through them

  • @deleteddeleted4120
    @deleteddeleted4120 Před měsícem

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

  • @yourma-uh5um
    @yourma-uh5um Před rokem

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

  • @TommyOnSax
    @TommyOnSax Před 6 lety

    Nice Video!

  • @aaryanpanwar6405
    @aaryanpanwar6405 Před 2 lety

    Clean af

  • @WillyBernardus
    @WillyBernardus Před 7 lety

    Very good to record direct sound

  • @docolemnsx
    @docolemnsx Před rokem +1

    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.

  • @lord_scrubington
    @lord_scrubington Před 12 dny +1

    big up salford uni

  • @NordicDan
    @NordicDan Před 9 měsíci +1

    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
      @Hello.Henning  Před 9 měsíci +1

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

  • @Zombertino
    @Zombertino Před 19 dny

    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' 😂

  • @Tadesan
    @Tadesan Před 11 měsíci +3

    That reverb chamber is amazing.

  • @borntoclimb7116
    @borntoclimb7116 Před rokem

    Wow

  • @jmack8767
    @jmack8767 Před 8 měsíci

    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.

  • @GauravChandyeahthisistheone

    real music

  • @FA-sr6lx
    @FA-sr6lx Před 7 lety +7

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

    • @Peter-ff1tp
      @Peter-ff1tp Před rokem

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

  • @bluebaconjake405
    @bluebaconjake405 Před 2 lety

    Woah

  • @Cartoon_Physics
    @Cartoon_Physics Před rokem

    Now, all of you, look up "I am sitting in a room". Listen with headphones next time you're on the bus or something.

  • @SpidermanFan92
    @SpidermanFan92 Před rokem +1

    hearing the sound cut out like that was crazy!

  • @notemo212
    @notemo212 Před 7 lety

    Mighty jazzy

  • @squoblat
    @squoblat Před 3 lety +1

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

  • @warlockpaladin2261
    @warlockpaladin2261 Před rokem +1

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

  • @syllavr4584
    @syllavr4584 Před 3 lety +1

    Holy shit the anechoic chamber makes it sound gated

  • @guynamedlove6426
    @guynamedlove6426 Před rokem

    those arpeggios sound great

  • @ledfloyd9035
    @ledfloyd9035 Před 7 lety +26

    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

  • @nathanwilson2116
    @nathanwilson2116 Před rokem

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

  • @pyeltd.5457
    @pyeltd.5457 Před 22 dny

    Lise Simpson tunes on Hit & Run.

  • @ezmarke
    @ezmarke Před měsícem

    Need to try a vacuum chamber next !

  • @-__-_-_--__--_-__-_____--_-___

    Holy shit I never realized the tail from brass instruments must come from reverb

  • @Klomp1
    @Klomp1 Před 4 lety +2

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

  • @mattro7107
    @mattro7107 Před 7 lety +18

    what in tarnation

  • @joshuamaney7902
    @joshuamaney7902 Před měsícem

    Cool how you can hear the pads

  • @CGDubz87
    @CGDubz87 Před rokem +1

    Tornado sirens in the midwest be like: 0:13

  • @CanceriousIG
    @CanceriousIG Před 3 lety

    Trippy

  • @ReksratYTB
    @ReksratYTB Před 3 lety

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

  • @TheDeadDiamond
    @TheDeadDiamond Před 6 dny

    0:14 TORNADO WARNING - THERE HAS BEEN A LEVEL 4 TORNADO SPOTTED IN YOUR AREA, FIND SHELTER IMMEDIATELY

  • @robertsteel2004
    @robertsteel2004 Před 29 dny

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

  • @themechanix2311
    @themechanix2311 Před 7 lety

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

  • @macabrecreation1067
    @macabrecreation1067 Před rokem

    ahhh... the best cure for my tinnitus

  • @balys2168
    @balys2168 Před 7 lety +4

    Chris?

  • @Gildas_djdb
    @Gildas_djdb Před měsícem

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

  • @sacrificialobama8786
    @sacrificialobama8786 Před 3 lety +1

    Kinda sounds like the anechoic recordings have a gate or something on them thats crazy

  • @illwill2453
    @illwill2453 Před 7 lety +3

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

    • @q12aw50
      @q12aw50 Před rokem

      Neither they’re both horrible

  • @joshioaz85
    @joshioaz85 Před 7 lety

    holy saxophone

  • @harleyknoss3212
    @harleyknoss3212 Před rokem

    I would love to take my bari there.

  • @wigwagstudios2474
    @wigwagstudios2474 Před 6 lety +1

    0:00 !

  • @mikeschmid4841
    @mikeschmid4841 Před rokem

    This very much sounded like a live concert vs hearing a recording in a sound booth

  • @spodieopie8745
    @spodieopie8745 Před 6 lety

    That's one nice vst

  • @timc333
    @timc333 Před 5 měsíci

    I like the reverb room much better than the Anechoic chamber .

  • @vpryt18
    @vpryt18 Před rokem

    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
      @Hello.Henning  Před rokem +1

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

  • @Syllogyzym
    @Syllogyzym Před 3 lety

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

  • @hainguyenngoc7500
    @hainguyenngoc7500 Před rokem

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

  • @Hello.Henning
    @Hello.Henning  Před rokem

    Also check out this video of me clapping my hands in a very large reverberant space: czcams.com/video/PucbcYkarzQ/video.html. If you need help with the acoustical design of spaces, with the sound isolation between spaces, or anything else related to sound and vibration, check out the website of the company I work for. We are experts in the field of acoustics and we can help you with all those things: bkl.ca/what-we-do

  • @lscales6131
    @lscales6131 Před rokem

    0:25 that’s a pretty crispy sound though.

  • @vhsru
    @vhsru Před 15 dny +1

    Like playing in the wardrobe.