Music Thing: Anechoic chambers are awesome

11.3.08

There is nothing not to love at Oobject's Guide to Anechoic Chamber Architecture. Above is AFJ International's tank-sized chamber, and the Auditory Localization Facility is a person-sized loudspeaker-filled geodesic sphere packing a generous punch of awesome. Less high-minded readers might also enjoy Nick Knight's rather splendid fashion/audio crossover The Sound of Clothes, which includes several not entirely SFW videos. (Thanks, Will)

Posted by Tom Whitwell.

Comments:

"Not entirely SWF" - brilliant

# posted by

Chris : 12:29 AM

So is the idea to get a recording of the tank firing its gun, without all that annoying background reverb you sometimes get on cheap SFX CDs?

# posted by

Museum of Techno : 10:05 AM

My construction company built one of these for the airforce at Edwards AFB. It is big enough to hold a B1 Bomber and had a turntable to spin it around.

# posted by

cwcushman : 4:30 PM

Sadly, that tank is in an RF anechoic chamber, i.e. it suppresses echoes of electromagnetic radiation, not sound.

Wikipedia has more on RF anechoic chambers here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anechoic_chamber#Radio-frequency_anechoic_chambers

# posted by

ChiefBeefeater : 8:30 PM