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- From: govindg@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Girish Govind)
- Subject: Re: How to build a noise reducer?
- Message-ID: <BxxB55.9I0@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
- Organization: University of Cincinnati
- References: <zhenya.722059559@ultima> <1992Nov18.161840.1753@eng.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:55:53 GMT
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- I am assuming that all of you are talking about doing what is called active
- noise control. This is not so easy as switching the leads of the speaker or
- microphone. Because
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- 1) The speaker has to be placed very very close to the microphone
- 2) the 180 degrees delayed waveform called "anti-noise" shows up in the
- reference signal. Because of 1)
- 3) The amplitude needs to be adjusted and limited.
- 4) The acoustics of the room will keep changing and that means one has to have
- an adaptive system.
- 5) The noise will only be cancelled at the error microphone and may add to the
- existing noise at other points in the room.
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- If you have some of the last few issues (October) of EE Times you may
- read about the acoustic noise control muffler for cars that is being put
- out by Walker mufflers. It is supposed to provide as good cancellation as
- existing passive mufflers and also provide better mpg from your car as
- the fuel burns cleaner when there is no back-pressure induced by the
- passive muffler.
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- Also, acoustic noise control was used by headphones designed by Bose which
- were used in the Voyager flight couple of years ago.
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- Some active companies in this area are Noise Cancellation Technologies and
- Active Noise & Vibration Technology.
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- There are a whole bunch of papers available on this.... I have a list of some
- of the good ones. If someone is interested, email me.
-
- -- Girish Govind
- govindg@ucunix.san.uc.edu
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