Educate me: What the hell is RT60?

[Fox Mulder]

You heard me.

 

[jipchen]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverberation_time#Reverberation_time

'Cause I can't explain it in english

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

In a nutshell: Shoot a start pistol / Clap your hands / Whatever that makes a quick, short and loud transient. RT60 is the time it takes for that sound to fade 60dB.

 

[Fox Mulder]

Ok, so how do you guys measure that?

 

[Uladyne]

I only have one reverb with a control labeled RT60. I just thought it was a fancy or technical name for "decay" or "reverb time" based on what the control did. Looks like I wasn't too far off.

 

[ahjteam]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=RT60

 

[006]

^ srsly

 

[Fox Mulder]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=RT60

^ srsly

Awesome. lol

How many of you actually bother measuring the RT60 of your mixing rooms? Are you better off just measuring acoustic spaces (drum rooms/live rooms) instead?

 

[ahjteam]

Awesome. lol

How many of you actually bother measuring the RT60 of your mixing rooms? Are you better off just measuring acoustic spaces (drum rooms/live rooms) instead?

the first link on google is a very nice calculator, which is pretty accurate atleast on empty rooms. So if you get 2 seconds instead of 1.7 seconds, I think it's close enough

 

[Fox Mulder]

the first link on google is a very nice calculator, which is pretty accurate atleast on empty rooms. So if you get 2 seconds instead of 1.7 seconds, I think it's close enough

Went through that, thanks.

 

[-Noodles-]

In a nutshell: Shoot a start pistol / Clap your hands / Whatever that makes a quick, short and loud transient. RT60 is the time it takes for that sound to fade 60dB.

The principle here is correct for one type of impulse response measurement too. It needs some greatly different parameter changes though to be accurate.

RT60 has been covered above though..