In a device for noise configuration in a motor vehicle which has an
internal combustion engine with at least two gas conduits connected to
different cylinders of the engine, the gas conduits are interconnected by
means of a cross-flow section formed by a housing which encloses the gas
conduits and which has at least two chambers in each of which one of the
gas conduits is disposed, each of the gas conduits being in communication
with the respective chamber by which it is enclosed by means of a
respective cross-flow opening and the two chambers being in communication
with one another by means of at least one cross-flow opening which is
remote from the cross-flow openings of the gas conduits so as to provide
for a phase shift of the sound waves of the gas flowing through the
housing.