A gentle bass rise in reverberation adds perceived warmth to acoustic music

Evidence

For performing acoustic music a gentle bass rise in the reverberant field is desirable to add “warmth” to the sound but in studios this is less desirable. — David Howard, Jamie Angus, coustics and Psychoacoustics, 2266

Categorization

• CANDY: A fun, tweetable acoustic-design fact: concert halls are deliberately bass-heavy for warmth, while studios are not.
• XREF: connects to: Bass-rich music venues deliberately boost low-frequency reverberation to add warmth and lift weak fundamentals; Gently rising bass response is both natural and preferred in loudspeakers — Toole, Floyd E, Sound reproduction- the acoustics and…, 546; A sound’s perceived warmth depends on specific frequency balance (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Gently rising bass response is both natural and preferred in loudspeakers #corroborates (0.85) — Toole, Floyd E, Sound reproduction- the acoustics and…, 546
• Bass-rich music venues deliberately boost low-frequency reverberation to add warmth and lift weak fundamentals #corroborates (0.80)
• A sound’s perceived warmth depends on specific frequency balance #expands (0.78)
• Reverberant fields typically color perceived sound with excess bass that equalization must fix #complicates (0.78)
• Reverberant fields sound bass-heavy and require context-specific equalization #complicates (0.75) — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 2431
• Warmth in a sound can be produced by two opposite spectral manipulations #qualifies (0.72)