TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title Page

Abstract

1    INTRODUCTION

2    ARTIFICIAL REVERBERATION

2.1   Physical vs. Perceptual Approach to Artificial Reverberation
2.2   Perceptual Approach
2.3   Reverberation Time and EDR
2.4   Modal Density and Echo Density
2.5   Unit Comb and All-pass filters
2.6   Filter Networks
2.7   Other types of artificial reverberation.
3    FDN REVERBERATORS
3.1   Unit Comb Filter Pole Study
3.2   Parallel Comb Filter Analysis
3.3   General Feedback Delay Network.
3.4   Comparing FDN with Waveguide Networks
4    TIME-VARYING FDN REVERBERATORS
4.1   Modulation Types
4.2   Interpolation.
4.3   Previous Usages of Modulation in Artificial Reverberation
5    IMPLEMENTATION AND RESULTS
5.1   Choice of the general FDN parameters
5.2   Choice of Modulation.
5.3   Choice of Interpolation Type
5.4   Implementation Details
5.5   Computation Requirements
5.6   Listening Test
6    CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

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