Saxophone in Reverberation Room and Anechoic Chamber

Naomi plays her Alt Saxophone in the Anechoic Chamber and in the Reverberation Room of the acoustic laboratories of the University of Salford:
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Recorded in February 2016, after a lecture of the MSc Acoustics.
Camera: iPhone 5c (audio has not been adjusted or edited afterwards).

[AWlpsSHOW]

Holy crap, hearing the sudden cut out of noise was so freaking freaky and insane!
Makes you realise that no matter what kind of room or building you are in there will always be an echo or vibration.
I can see how disorientating and crazy it must be to be in the Anechoic Chamber.

[PocketUau]

Imagine if all instruments used for a song are recorded individually in that silent room. Imagine the precision of that recording.

[jimturpin]

Wow, when you switched the anechoic chamber, it sounded like you were right here in front of me. Amazing how we take cues from the echos to determine the size of the area around us.

[shatteredsquare]

0:32 holy shit that's reverb makes everything sound better, the guys speech by itself diffused into notes and pitches!

[joemccarthywascorrect]

I still remember the first time I was in a “Dead Room” (anechoic chamber) - it was almost like being able to see the words leave your mouth and just fall to the floor…

[craigsurette]

As a synth player, who regularly hears everything I play very dry through headphones, I now COMPLETELY understand why artificial reverberation became such a BIG deal in early recording tech. You absolutely need to hear the room resonating and responding to the sound as part of it <or a virtual/synthetic analogous effect> to make the sound sound "alive" in the ways we are used to hearing sounds. Life ALWAYS has reverb on it when we hear it.

[ChadwickTheChad]

That's it mate - you're going STRAIGHT to the reverberation room!

[GaryKetchum]

I love the sound of the reverberation chamber.

[ScottyHunter]

I had no idea the floor was a giant bouncy mat inside an Anechoic chamber!! I feel like I need to bounce around inside it before I die. Adding to bucket list.

[OrbiliusMagister]

I just discovered a jem: for those who fell in love with Jean Michel Jarre some decades ago, "Rendez-vous 5 (Ron's Piece)" is an emotional piece featuring synth pads and strings with long reverb under a solo sax *with no reverb at all*. This was the first song scheduled to be recorded from outer space. Mission Specialist Ron McNair brought his soprano saxophone on board to do the solo on the Space Shuttle Challenger, but never had the chance as the Challenger exploded. After the explosion, Jarre changed the title of the song in honor of Ron. That particular sound boggled me until I listened to this video: the lack of reverb conveys the idea of the lack of air in space.

[CGDubz]

Tornado sirens in the midwest be like: 0:13

[waffler-yzgw]

that immediate cut on the first note in the triangle room was crazy

[kaniphish]

0:20 when Disneys Little Einsteins need to find the way to the Waterfall by listening for the right song.

[positivevibes]

Imagine the sleep you could get in this room! 😍😍😍

[eofsentinel]

Notice how the amount of sound vibrations to the microphone decreases when she turns around in the anechoic chamber

[crapadopalese]

0:28 - no jazz player can avoid playing The Lick

[MIRROREDRECOLLECTION]

Always wondered what a saxophone in reverberation room and anechoic chamber sounded like.

[joeblankenship]

Used to get up early on Sunday mornings to go play my bari in the stairwell of the music building. Sounded awesome.

[onlyconnect]

Lot of the best jazz records from 30s/40s shound, by today's standards, like they were recorded in an anacoustic chamber

[TeamDragofied]

the anechoic part sounds like shes standing right in front of you. incredible echo muffling