Engineering DecayCore

Explore DecayCore's DSP rationale, acoustic guardrails, reproducibility, operating modes, adaptive target, and temporal decay control.

DecayCore is designed as a conservative measurement and FIR-correction system. Its engineering documentation separates acoustic intent, numerical safeguards, operating policy, and measured evidence so that correction choices remain inspectable.

Start with the design rationale

Why DecayCore Works

A practical overview of measurement alignment, confidence-weighted correction, phase safety, decay control, and headroom.

Academic DSP Rationale

The mathematical model and the implemented sequence from time-of-flight removal through FIR synthesis.

Safety and reproducibility

DSP Guards Reference

Principled acoustic guards, technical numerical guards, dependency clusters, and operational triggers.

Stability and Reproducibility

Deterministic processing, bounded correction, input robustness, comparable evaluation, and run auditing.

Modes and room-aware behavior

AUTO, BASIC, and ADVANCED

How operating modes change search behavior, exposed controls, and conservative defaults.

Temporal Decay Control

Why low-frequency problems are evaluated in time as well as amplitude.

Adaptive Target

Room-aware target synthesis and its measurement-metadata requirements.

Evidence and advanced workflows

Measured performance case study

Methodology, limitations, source REW data, response, group-delay, waterfall, and full report.

Hybrid IIR + FIR correction

An optional workflow for narrow low-frequency cuts before bounded FIR synthesis.

The user-facing workflow remains in the User Manual. These engineering documents explain why the controls and defaults behave as they do.