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sound refusing to die, bouncing off walls until it finally admits the room is empty
means The lingering persistence of sound caused by reflections bouncing around a space after the original noise has stopped — or the electronic effect that imitates it.
from A 20th-century clipping of "reverberation," which comes from Latin "reverberare," meaning to beat or strike back — built from "re-" (back) and "verberare" (to lash, to whip), related to "verber," a rod or lash. So buried in the word is the image of sound being flogged back at you off the walls.
- physics
- thousands of echoes blurred too fast to count
- decay time
- measured as RT60, seconds until silence
- cathedrals
- built for reverb before microphones existed
- fake space
- plugins simulate halls that never existed
- NASA chamber
- world's quietest room kills it entirely
taj mahal dome — marble chamber in agra, india with 28-second echo creating distinctive reverb effect
reverb pedal boss rv-6 — popular guitar effects unit that simulates room acoustics, widely used since 2004