Simulating the response of multiple microphones to a single acoustic source in a reverberant room

A method is presented for simulating the impulse response between an acoustic source and multiple microphones in a reverberant room. The method is similar to the image method described by Allen and Berkley [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 65, 943–950 (1979)] but includes modifications to simulate received echo arrival time accurately. The essential modification is to represent each received echo as a low-pass-filtered impulse at the correct arrival time. Using this ‘‘low-pass impulse’’ method, reverberant rooms can be simulated with sufficient accuracy to investigate multiple-microphone systems that are sensitive to interchannel phase.