About Richard Honeycutt
Started doing auditorium sound and reading Beranek in high school, mid '60's. Have been in sound installation, recording, design, broadcast engineering, acoustics, and taching ever since. Married, 3 grown kids, 3 super grandkids.
Entries by Richard Honeycutt
RT and the Area of Acoustical Absorption
/by Richard HoneycuttBy Richard Honeycutt
This article explains collation between reverberation time (RT) and the area of acoustical absorption.
The Sabine equation for calculating reverberation time (RT) is:
RT = 0.049V/A
- where V is the volume of the room in cubic feet,
What’s Wavelength and When Does It Matter?
/by Richard Honeycuttby Richard Honeycutt
Richard takes it back to the first principles and explains the effect of the wavelength of a sound wave.
Recent discussions on the SAC listserv indicate some confusion surrounding the effect of the wavelength of a sound … Read more
Acoustical Scattering
/by Richard Honeycuttby Richard Honeycutt
This article will help you understand Acoustical Scattering.
As we all know, sound propagates as a wave. But under certain conditions, we can simplify our analyses by pretending that it moves as particles or rays. A wave … Read more
How To Model Audience Absorption
/by Richard Honeycuttby Richard Honeycutt
This article shed some insights on a method for modeling audience absorption.
Many contractors, and not a few consultants, may not have given much thought to the best method of modeling audience absorption. Back in the early … Read more
Acoustical Models that Make Sense
/by Richard Honeycuttby Richard Honeycutt
In this article, Richard Honeycutt compares predictions of four different modeling programs. The results were surprising.
While preparing a series of columns on acoustical modeling software for AudioXpress Magazine (April, May, June, and July 2014 issues), I … Read more
More on Testing Loudspeaker Installations
/by Richard Honeycuttby Richard Honeycutt
Testing Loudspeaker installations using a 1/3-octave RTA and it’s two major side-effects.
A 1/3-octave RTA is by far the most common tool used to evaluate sound-system output. Figure 1 shows a typical 1/3-octave RTA display. An RTA … Read more
Why, What, and How to Test For Correct Speaker Aiming and Equalization Settings
/by Richard Honeycuttby Richard Honeycutt
Commissioning a sound system is the last step of the installation process. This article will focus on testing for proper speaker aiming and EQ adjustment.
So you’ve finished the installation and are ready to sit back and … Read more
Designing Sound Systems Using Horns
/by Richard Honeycuttby Richard Honeycutt
In this article, Richard Honeycutt looks at some advantages to designing a sound systems using horns.
“What’s wrong with our sound system?”
When I am engaged to answer that question, I often find that the main issue … Read more
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