Once the room’s natural threshold is exceeded, conversation and communication requires much more attention. For instance, a teacher quietly speaking in a classroom is very different than one yelling above a room full of excited kids. Without treatment, sound will echo off the walls, floor and ceiling and reach a point where the room’s ability to handle and dissipate energy has been exceeded. And in a recording studio, controlling the acoustics allows us to create a predictable outcome so that the recording will translate to other audio systems with relative confidence. In a hotel lobby or restaurant, it may simply be an attempt at controlling the reverberant time to make communication between patrons more comfortable. In a factory, it may have to do with safety paging. In an airport, it may be flight announcements. In a church, this may be the spoken word. Or more simply stated: taking the clutter out of the sound so that you can clearly hear the message. In general terms, controlling sound is all about improving intelligibility or our ability to comprehend what is being communicated.
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