The SONORA Audio Lab is an acoustic measurement and reproduction lab designed to perform experiments with moving sound sources and observers in reverberant conditions.
The lab is located in the KU Leuven Electrical Engineering Department (ESAT) at the Arenberg Campus in Leuven, and is exploited by the KU Leuven Audio Engineering Lab. The lab is primarily used by audio engineering and signal processing researchers. The audio setup in the lab allows for 32-channel synchronous audio acquisition and 24-channel synchronous audio playback. The lab consists of an L-shaped reverberant measurement room and a separate control room.
The realisation of the lab has been largely supported by KU Leuven and most of the equipment has been funded by a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC, Grant Agreement No. 773268).
Location: KU Leuven ESAT, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, Leuven, Belgium
Key equipment:
- 10 AKG CK-32 and CK-97 microphones with HM 1000 Gooseneck Module
- KU 100 Dummy Head with in-ear microphones
- 10 Genelec 8030C loudspeakers
- B&K Sound Level Meter
- 2 RME Micstasy
- RME M32 DA
- RME Digiface
- RME babyface
- Pozyx positioning system
- Drone with on-board 16-mic array, sound card and minicomputer
- Acoustic Guitar
Partners:
- KU Leuven
Contact persons: