I can confirm this. It’s also nice to see a new paper on this. I’ve been using this knowledge professionally for the last 24 years as a front of house engineer.

I can confirm this. It’s also nice to see a new paper on this. I’ve been using this knowledge professionally for the last 24 years as a front of house engineer. Anecdotal story time: You’ve may have seen this video, or some variation of or maybe even the TED talk inspired by it… https://youtube.com/watch?v=GA8z7f7a2Pk https://youtube.com/watch?v=GA8z7f7a2Pk …what few people know and most don’t because I have not shared this publicly (in media at least) is that I was mixing this show. We we’re on in the middle of the day and a few bands had been on before us. By this point in my career I had already been to the gorge several times and the hill has always been a problem. On this particular day during the already frantic pace of a festival changeover with no sound check, the system tech is talking up the new delay stacks they beefed up for this year. This was great news and were geeking out and he’s showing me where they’re at on the console which is of course buried under some convoluted series of navigation and button presses to get to, given the atrocious UI design of digital electronics. Now generally given these circumstances, convention holds that the delays are set to some arbitrary value and the guest engineer generally need not concern themselves as the system techs will be monitoring them. To my horror were getting to the dancy part of our short set and I’m doing my due diligence and looking back at the hill and wondering whats up, why isn’t anyone dancing!?! The delays were not turned up! None of the previous engineers that day had thought about them and the techs while excited had set them to some arbitrarily safe low level. So for me this video marks the moment I checked the delays that day and turned up the bass. So if I may add to the TED talk; if you want to start a movement, turn up the bass. This effect is literally everyday at work for me and why I have a job.