Jonathan Sterne, The Software Passes the Test When the User Fails It: Constructing Digital Models of Analog Signal Processors 159 (accompanying podcast)

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Field recordings: 

– Stanford Memorial Church (2011, demonstration of the church's acoustic responses to different noise bursts by audio engineer Jonathan Abel; Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics in the Music Department at Stanford University)

– Stanford Memorial Church (2011, demonstration of the church's acoustic response to a balloon pop by audio engineer Jonathan Abel; Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics in the Music Department at Stanford University)

– Stanford Memorial Church (2011, demonstration of the church's acoustic response an ascending frequency sweep by audio engineer Jonathan Abel; Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics in the Music Department at Stanford University)

 

Test sounds:

- Recordings of diverse impulse sounds and response sounds, produced by a AKG BX20 spring reverb device (Universal Audio in Scotts Valley, California)

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