How engineering is poorly served by its portrayal in the media, and how we’ve teamed up with fiction writers to tackle this in the Inventive Podcast.
Author: TheSoundBlog
Halloumi glass harmonica
How I made a halloumi glass harmonica for a TV demo and played Ode to Joy … just.
Clear facemasks: early tests
Some experiments on clear facemasks we’re doing at Salford University to improve communication for PPE.
Acoustic Advent 2020
The new windows from the 2020 Acoustic Advent run by @trevor_cox @salfordacoustic
Stonehenge: Whispering Gallery?
Searching (in vain) for whispering gallery effects in Stonehenge. Pretty FDTD simulations and measurements in our Acoustic Scale Model of Stonehenge.
What’s in an (artificial) voice?
An introduction to a new experiment looking at how we respond to artificial voices from BBC R&D and University of Salford.
Podcast Headphone Spatialiser
The Salford Acoustics’ SpatialPodcast plug-in is designed for podcasters wishing to add more dimensional sound to their recordings.
Stonehenge, henge, henge
Did the circle of stones cause focussing and discrete echoes within Stonehenge.
How reverberant was Stonehenge?
The reverberation time in our 1:12 scale model compared to the full scale replica at Maryhill, USA
How We Measured the Acoustic Scale Model of Stonehenge
Details on the measurement equipment and analysis process for the 1:12 scale model of Stonehenge