An echo is a distinct repetition of the original sound. Most ordinary rooms will meet the criteria.
You almost always do. The room is so small that the delay-time of the echo
is short, and our brains learn to tune it out. But you can hear it easily if you
want to. Simply record a normal conversation in the room, with the microphone
placed roughly midway between the people and the farthest wall. When you
play back the recording, you'll wonder how you could have missed hearing all
of that extra noise during your conversation.
to produce an echo, the sound wave bounces off a surface and then comes back
No
Reverberation
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hard and smooth surfaces will produce the best echoes.
Any wall in any enclosed room , hill or obstacle about 17 meters away or more will produce an echo.
to produce an echo, the sound wave bounces off a surface and then comes back
No
Reverberation
You can go into a stuffed small room and not hear an echo unlike moving into a new big house with no furniture! there would be a big echo!
Continuously repeating echoes in a room are known as reverberation.Where the echo is distinct, it is just an echo
in a cave
clap and listen for the echo an echo is just a reverberation of sound bouncing off something solid about 17 meters away and returning will produce an echo. You can't litterally find an echo just clap and listen for one.
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17.2m
Room flutter is basically echo. Parallel surfaces of the room cause sound to bounce back and forth quickly causing the echo to quickly echo creating a flutter or slap back sound. This is usually NOT a desireable trait for a room especially if you're using the room for any kind of audio work (recording, mixing, rehearsing etc). I say usually because there are instances where you DO want a room to flutter, as when implementing an echo chamber. Remedies for this phenomina can be as simple as adding a carpet or soft furnature to full blown acoustic treatments (see auralex.com for more info on that)
Drapes r good to have in a large room 'cause it reduces ECHO!!!