ABSTRACT
The real-time data compressors used for live recordings via integrated services digital network and Internet have a few frames delay under ideal circumstances, and can introduce a few seconds' worth at times. Most of the time the equalizers and compressors are used to subtly enhance a sound rather than call attention to themselves. But time-domain effects—long and short delays, and reverberation—are often in the users face. Reverberation is a natural part of life and art. Vibrations bouncing between the sides of the device acted like sound reverberating in a closed space. Delays are useful for creating reverberation for outdoor environments, where there are often a few distinct echoes from large buildings or geologic features, rather than the many closely spaced reflections the users would hear in an enclosed space. Any reverb program should let the user control the decay, usually known as reverb time. Most programs allow some equalization of the late reverb, to simulate different kinds of wall treatments.
