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ntom · Post by **ntom** » Thu Apr 23, 2015 8:04 am

I heard about Anechoic chambers here on KVR first - though I didn't know they were called Anechoic until this video. Of course there seemed to be the internet stigma of "the strange must cause strange" - if that makes sense. I heard many people saying that staying in an Anechoic chamber lead to some strange sensations, ranging from hallucinations, to feeling sick, and who knows what else.
I personally questioned if sound, or, really, the absense of it could have THAT dramatic of an effect (especially in the short amount of time), especially when me, personally, try to go out of my way to find as quiet of an environment as I can (save for my computer, she's a little rackety)

This video someone decided to put that myth to a test and wound up staying in the chamber for an hour just fine.

I can't help but sit here and wonder what it would be like to set up shop inside that chamber and actually do some mixing...how might the final result sound?

bibz1st · Post by **bibz1st** » Thu Apr 23, 2015 9:21 am

I would love to experience total silence, alas my tinnitus puts paid to that.

skipscada · Post by **skipscada** » Thu Apr 23, 2015 9:49 am

ntom wrote: This video someone decided to put that myth to a test and wound up staying in the chamber for an hour just fine.

Damned myth-busters, taking all the mystery out of acoustics. Oh well, there's always the brown note. Oh, wait ...

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Thu Apr 23, 2015 10:10 am

ntom wrote:I can't help but sit here and wonder what it would be like to set up shop inside that chamber and actually do some mixing...how might the final result sound?

About the same as you'd mix with closed headphones (if you'd blend a bit of the left channel into your right ear and vice versa)

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Thu Apr 23, 2015 10:23 am

absolute silence would drive you crazy if it was a long term situation, say 6 to 12 months at least.
that is of course if absolute silence existed anywhere in the known universe.

maschinelf · Post by **maschinelf** » Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:24 am

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't absolute silence exist in most of the known universe? Though I guess the hypothesis of space being a vacuum is now proven to be untrue, does dark matter act as a medium for sound waves?

Doug1978 · Post by **Doug1978** » Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:26 am

ntom wrote: I can't help but sit here and wonder what it would be like to set up shop inside that chamber and actually do some mixing...how might the final result sound?

That'd be rather a waste of the golden silence, nay?

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:30 am

Fit deafness into this theory, and then consider if it makes sense.

bibz1st · Post by **bibz1st** » Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:45 am

whyterabbyt wrote:Fit deafness into this theory, and then consider if it makes sense.

bibz1st wrote:I would love to experience total silence, alas my tinnitus puts paid to that.

........I should add "but not because of deafness"

Deep Purple · Post by **Deep Purple** » Thu Apr 23, 2015 12:08 pm

vurt wrote:that is of course if absolute silence existed anywhere in the known universe.

I once heard that it happens when you ask someone from Liverpool "whose round it is?"

DJ Warmonger · Post by **DJ Warmonger** » Thu Apr 23, 2015 12:11 pm

whyterabbyt wrote:Fit deafness into this theory, and then consider if it makes sense.

As far as I know, deafness doesn't one does not hear anything, quite the opposite - hears only noise.

Either way, if someone if deaf from birth, probably got used it it anyway.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Thu Apr 23, 2015 12:42 pm

DJ Warmonger wrote:
whyterabbyt wrote:Fit deafness into this theory, and then consider if it makes sense.
As far as I know, deafness doesn't one does not hear anything, quite the opposite - hears only noise.

And you can still hear sounds in an anechoic chamber. John Cage, 4'33, and all that.

Either way, if someone if deaf from birth, probably got used it it anyway.

But people who werent born deaf cant get used to it?

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Thu Apr 23, 2015 12:44 pm

Deep Purple wrote:
vurt wrote:that is of course if absolute silence existed anywhere in the known universe.
I once heard that it happens when you ask someone from Liverpool "whose round it is?"

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Thu Apr 23, 2015 12:49 pm

maschinelf wrote:Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't absolute silence exist in most of the known universe? Though I guess the hypothesis of space being a vacuum is now proven to be untrue, does dark matter act as a medium for sound waves?

sound travels as waves through space, it just doesnt stay within the human range of hearing due to the lengths the soundwaves end up at.
but if you go in to space, remove your helmet you will hear the rushing and boiling of your blood before the final sound you hear would be the explosion of your ear drums.

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Thu Apr 23, 2015 1:51 pm

vurt wrote:
maschinelf wrote:Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't absolute silence exist in most of the known universe? Though I guess the hypothesis of space being a vacuum is now proven to be untrue, does dark matter act as a medium for sound waves?
sound travels as waves through space, it just doesnt stay within the human range of hearing due to the lengths the soundwaves end up at.
but if you go in to space, remove your helmet you will hear the rushing and boiling of your blood before the final sound you hear would be the explosion of your ear drums.

I was watching "Antarctica : A Year On The Ice" last night. The narrator was saying that parts of Antarctica in winter can be almost silent. Certainly the quietest place on Earth ...

Does complete silence REALLY make you crazy?