Abstract | The analysis of a non-in-line assisted reverberation system containing a multichannel reverberator is extended to take into account the case where some of the microphones are moved close to the source, introducing an in-line component to the system's behaviour. It is shown that in-line operation can produce decays with negative curvature. In the general case, it is possible to use this negative curvature to produce ideally linear decays, but the reverberation time gain is then equal to that obtained without a reverberator. Simulations are presented to verify the theory. |