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Acoustic Ballooning

sound manipulation technique that artificially expands the perceived size of a room's acoustic space by exploiting the physics of tape speed. By recording a sound at a high speed (e.g., 4x) and then playing it back at normal speed, the original sound's pitch and tempo are restored, but the reverberation tails are stretched, making a small room sound like a vast, cavernous hall.

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