The RT60 Reverberation Time curves at each octave or one-third octave filter centre frequency are displayed on this graph, with separate traces for the Early Decay time (EDT) and the 60dB decay times T20, T30 and REW's Topt. See below for descriptions of each of these measures.
The control panel for the RT60 graph has these controls:
The Time Reversed Filtering control applies the octave band filters backwards in time, this reduces the filter's own contribution to the measured decay. When using 1/3 octave filters at low frequencies the filter decay time can be significant, over 200ms for a 100Hz 1/3 filter, for example. Applying the filter in reverse reduces this decay to less than 50ms, but it does affect the response somewhat, such that Early Decay Time (EDT) figures using Time-Reversed filters may not be valid.
If the Show Correlation Factor box is checked the graph legend names shows the quality of the line fit for the various decay measures. The "r" value shown after each decay measure is the regression coefficient, which measures how well the data corresponds to a straight line. A value of -1 would indicate a perfect fit, values lower in magnitude than -0.98 indicate the corresponding decay figure may not be reliable. Unreliable values are italicised. The decay measures available are:
The RT60 plot can show horizontal bars centred on each filter frequency and spanning the filter's bandwidth, or lines joining the filter centre frequencies, according to the Use Bars on RT60 Plot control setting.
The reverberation times for the current measurement can be written to a text file using the File -> Export -> RT60 data as text menu entry.