The Maurice Gusman Concert Hall houses a 600-seat concert hall, a professional recording studio, and the administrative offices of the Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music. The Office of the Dean, Undergraduate Studies, Graduate Studies, and Music Admissions are all located in the main floor. The Gusman Concert Hall is named in honor of Maurice Gusman, a donor to the University of Miami. The concert hall is used for large performing forces as well as smaller ensembles. Each year, over 100 concerts and events are presented in this hall.

The Gusman recording studio is housed within Gusman Hall. It is situated on its top two floors, which overlook the concert hall sound chamber. This studio was originally dedicated in January of 1975; since its inception, this studio has been completely rebuilt three times, with three different recording consoles and other recording equipment.

Several of our music engineering students have assembled a compendium of impulse responses from Gusman Concert Hall. The recordings below were made by Diana Siwiak, Greg Amato, and Jarred Bonaparte using a Neumann dummy-head microphone or spaced-apart omnis and a wooden slapstick as the impulse. Check back later for a sketch of the hall with actual loudspeaker arrangements. Note: seat rows are designated A through O, with A adjacent to the stage. All recordings were sampled at 48 kHz with 24-bit quantization.

Center-Row Impulse Responses, Dummy Head

• Row B (22 feet from center stage; 4 feet high)
• Row G (about halfway back, near the mixing desk; 54.5 feet from center stage; 4 feet high)
• Row L (77 feet from center stage; 4 feet high)

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