One of our lecturers, Adam Hill, has written a blog post on his site about live sound subwoofer array efficiency and how we’re probably not talking about it in the right way. Have a look by following the link below! What is subwoofer array efficiency, anyway? – Adam J. Hill
You may not expect any research coming out of our Entertainment Engineering group to make its way onto the BBC’s Blue Planet II, but that’s just what happened last Sunday! The segment starts around 11:23. Dr Adam Hill was brought in to contribute to a project looking into ways to judge the health of coral […]
The Institute of Acoustics conference on Reproduced Sound will be visiting the Entertainment Engineering subject group here at Derby this Tuesday evening to get a taste of the various research projects our staff and students have on the go. Projects being demonstrated span topic areas including: live sound reinforcement, ambisonics, speech intelligibility, and wave field […]
This past Sunday, 29 November, some of our 3rd year BSc (Hons) Sound, Light and Live Event students took some lighting fixtures and projectors over to Derby Cathedral to support their event, Evensong of Light: Celebrating 90 Years of Derby Cathedral. The students (with the help of our lecturers, Ben Sams and Simon Lewis) […]
Wednesday, 27 September was the official opening of Derby’s new STEM Centre. Within the new building our department has gained new labs covering electronics, communication technology and computing, and – most importantly – a hemi-anechoic chamber. UoD’s new hemi-anechoic chamber ready for the grand opening To officially open the building, HRH The Earl of Wessex […]
The Creative Technologies Research Cluster is holding the 8th Annual Sounds in Space Research Symposium tomorrow (Tuesday, 27 June 2017). The full event programme can be found here: http://soundsinspace.co.uk/ Sounds in Space looks at the technical and artistic details of 3D audio with a 34 speaker array driven by software developed here at the University of Derby (WigWare Ambisonic Audio […]
The University of Derby has been awarded Gold by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) in the country’s first ever Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), putting it in the top 20% of all providers in the UK. Based on the evidence available, the TEF Panel judged that the University of Derby delivers consistently outstanding […]
Title: Applications of auralization in live sound reinforcement Overview: Auralizaton of real listening environments using binaural simulation techniques has become increasingly common in many branches of audio/acoustics over the past few decades. To date, the technology hasn’t been applied in live sound reinforcement. This project focuses on the development of hardware and software to allow professional […]
This year’s Reproduced Sound conference (organized by the Electro-Acoustics Group of the Institute of Acoustics) has chosen to visit the Entertainment Engineering group here at the University of Derby on 21 November. The evening will include live/interactive demonstrations of the research our academics and PhD students are involved with, including: interactive demonstrations of ambisonics, 3D audio […]
Even though the official opening of the Derby’s new STEM Centre isn’t until next academic year, Adam and Bruce have managed to gain special access to the building so that our undergraduate and postgraduate students can use the new hemi-anechoic chamber for their research and practical work. So far, we’re loving the new facility and […]