Step Inside an Anechoic Chamber: The QUIETEST Place On Earth!

This is utterly impossible to capture on a microphone, it just sounds like a regular old noise gate on a nice dynamic mic. I want to physically be in that room so bad

Goes to show how much noise pollution there is in cities! It’s pretty nuts how loud streets are.

Wow a room that sounds like my front yard on an extremely still night. What the world sounded like on most farms pre industrial revolution. I am off grid in the mountains and have no constant operating systems like a refrigerator or furnace or air conditioning electric lights. My closest neighbor is almost 4 miles away. I can clearly hear their dog bark or a train crossing the road 17 miles away at times. Silence when you can hear and focus on your own heartbeat is amazing and wonderful.

I've had an opportunity to be in an anechoic chamber and right after that in an anechoic chamber with one reflecting wall. It's amazing how much difference that one reflecting surface did.

Despite having a degree in audio, I love this channel anyway

That would be so interesting to work with a anechoic chamber. I remember getting my hearing checked at work in a mobile test truck. It had little booths that were very quiet. With headphones on, they would play various tones one at a time for each ear. The tone would become softer each time it was played. You would hold a push button and hit it every time you heard a tone. I remember how loud my breathing and heartbeat was. My neck joints crunched and creaked loudly too! But it was a unique experience though.

You made it out alive! You didn't go crazy lol! I would love to visit those rooms and record in those rooms and make an album in those rooms? How come recording studio booths don't sound as quiet? Also what type of music do you make and where can I hear it? I love your voice and you sound like you'd be a great singer that would make amazing music.

You are amazing Kyle, I so like your generosity and just for some reassurance if you need it, it is compelling too. Thank you so much.

I have been in one for industrual hearing tests. One thing for sure us that it produces an errie feeling. One can easlily hear their heart beat and breathing through one's airways from what I remember. This was back in the day and my test showed that I could hear down to 4 db with whatever frequencues they used.

For a normal sound proofed studio setup, I felt that sound pressure gone and felt abit uncomfortable but now I feel more used to it

Loved it!

I've been in an antenna measurement room. It's basically a room designed to be an anechoic chamber for radio waves. However the geometry is very similar and as such, it also works very well on acoustic waves. That certainly was an interesting experience.

Thanks for doing this video! I look forward to having this experience myself one day!

I've heard that some people, when in an anechoic chamber for the first time, might even get nauseous and lose their lunch, bc it's so disorienting to not hear what we otherwise hear constantly. As far as the 'underlying concept', I see that as all sound has both early and late reflections in the normal world. Things will not sound natural without them. If you use samples in your recordings, they are usually recorded in a dead room (not this dead, but dead enough to sound thin by themselves). This is why I add some small amount of room reverb to them almost every time. Just enough to be barely perceptible in solo. It makes a difference, bc it makes dead samples sound natural, as if they are happening in the real world, as if they are being presented to the listener in the real world.

I have been in an Anechoic Chamber when when I was in my teens at MIT (now 65) and the way I describe it is just erie. It is almost like you sense more of your 'self' being present than in regular space, if that makes any sense.

Great video .. Thank you.. 🙂

Thanks

Amazing. My tinnitus would not like this room.

Wow 👌 👏

Wild!!