Week 9: RT60 Mesurments

This week's lecture was a very short and to-the-point session where we had the opportunity as a class to learn and discuss not only the way in which RT60 measurements take place, but furthermore, the way in which audio bounces around in a studio setting, creating reflection and diffussion for the audio engineer/listner. This was a very theoretical but at the same time informative lesson, providing us as students an opportunity to understand the way in which we would be expected to measure reflection times within our chosen projects. This was a really exciting experience as it was the first time I had the opportunity to measure a sound wave reflection.

We also went through and discussed examples of how we would successfully, as a group, acoustically treat a room on a fixed budget. I took some time out of today's session to discuss with Mansoor what was expected for project three and what my ideas and action plans were before starting to undergo my recordings. During today's session, I also ensured to book out the sound balkets from SAE to enable me to get the practical side out of the way as soon as possible.

How I can reinforce today's learning is by reviewing YouTube videos of the different terms our audio mentioned in today's class, but also try and find example project submissions on moodel or the internet to refer to when creating mine. For project three, I would like to ensure that there are clearer lines of communication between myself and Marc to ensure we have a smoother process in comparison to project 2.

In regards to this week's transferable skills learned, those that were rated the best were critical thinking and discovery. The reason why I feel this was due to the fact that we were required to critically think and collaborate on research on sound waves and the way in which we would be expected to describe our findings within project 3. The practice of these transferrable skills will help with the development of Project 3 and the completion of the research task.

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