14/04/2026
During one of our trips to Scotland to capture acoustics we got side tracked and Arjen played a tin whistle. The Hamilton Mausoleum, only 18 meters across, is one of those truly marvellous places in that exceptional category where you are immediately inspired to sing with yourself. It shares that invitation with only very few spaces we have visited, like Vigeland’s Mausoleum in Oslo, or Gol Gumbaz in Bijapur India. If, as a music or sound person, you are left alone in this space, you are guaranteed to have a great time, for quite some time.
On a 220 Hz note ( ‘Jude’ from Hey Jude) it has a reverberation time three times the length of Kings College Chapel in Cambridge (known from the BBC broadcast on Christmas Eve) and twice the length of Rouen cathedral, the tallest cathedral in France.
The acoustics of the Hamilton Mausoleum are carefully captured by Audio Ease and are now available for you to use in Altiverb 8.