Revisiting proximity effect using broadband signals

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Main Authors: Millot, Laurent, Elliq, Mohammed, Lopes, Manuel, Pelé, Gérard, Lambert, Dominique
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author Millot, Laurent
Elliq, Mohammed
Lopes, Manuel
Pelé, Gérard
Lambert, Dominique
author_facet Millot, Laurent
Elliq, Mohammed
Lopes, Manuel
Pelé, Gérard
Lambert, Dominique
contents Experiments studying mainly proximity effect are presented. Pink noise and music were used as stimuli and a combo guitar amplifier as source to test several microphones: omnidirectional and directional. We plot in-axis levels and spectral balances as functions of x, the distance to the source. Proximity effect was found for omnidirectional microphones. In-axis level curves show that 1/x law seems poorly valid. Spectral balance evolutions depend on microphones and moreover on stimuli: bigger decreases of low frequencies with pink noise; larger increases of other frequencies with music. For a naked loudspeaker, we found similar in-axis level curves under and above the cut-off frequency and propose an explanation. Listening equalized music recordings will help to demonstrate proximity effect for tested microphones.Paper 7106 presented at the 122th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, Wien, 2007
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spellingShingle Revisiting proximity effect using broadband signals
Millot, Laurent
Elliq, Mohammed
Lopes, Manuel
Pelé, Gérard
Lambert, Dominique
Audio and Speech Processing
Signal Processing
Experiments studying mainly proximity effect are presented. Pink noise and music were used as stimuli and a combo guitar amplifier as source to test several microphones: omnidirectional and directional. We plot in-axis levels and spectral balances as functions of x, the distance to the source. Proximity effect was found for omnidirectional microphones. In-axis level curves show that 1/x law seems poorly valid. Spectral balance evolutions depend on microphones and moreover on stimuli: bigger decreases of low frequencies with pink noise; larger increases of other frequencies with music. For a naked loudspeaker, we found similar in-axis level curves under and above the cut-off frequency and propose an explanation. Listening equalized music recordings will help to demonstrate proximity effect for tested microphones.Paper 7106 presented at the 122th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, Wien, 2007
title Revisiting proximity effect using broadband signals
topic Audio and Speech Processing
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14410