Acoustic Effect of Audience Areas and Listener Seats in EASE 5
When I enter Audience Areas and/or Listeners Seats, are the seats already considered "occupied" for the mapping calculations? If not - how do I simulate real listeners?
Neither Audience Areas nor Seats do have any acoustical effect on simulation results, thus do not include any absorption data and are therefore acoustically transparent. Audience Areas and Listener Seats serve as receiver points for simulations only.
To simulate the absorption of people you should create a face using the FACE IN FACE tool at the spots of interest, probably right beneath your Areas. Don't forget to assign the "Wall Material" of desire. Sufficient materials can be found in the Materials list. Search for example for the words “Audience”, “Occupied” or “Seats”. You will find many different material types for that purpose, depending on the type of audience and the density of listeners.
