Figure 1
From: Context-Dependent Effect of Reverberation on Material Perception from Impact Sound
An impact sound with and without reverberation. Waveforms (top) and spectrograms (bottom) of a non-reverberant impact sound of wood (left) convolved with a room impulse response (middle) resulting in a reverberant sound (right). Reverberation alters both the temporal and spectral characteristics of the sound. As with the example shown in the figure, reverberation generally lengthens the decay time of a sound. The degree and pattern of the alteration depend on the RIR.
