Four Aspects of Sound Isolation When it comes to sound isolation for your recording studio environment, you only need to keep four things in mind. Mass: The first line of defense in soundproofing Decoupling: Break the connections that sound vibrations use to get from one side of a wall to the other. Distance: Gain better […]
Room Ratios The vast majority of folks attempting to develop a well isolated acoustically correct room will stumble on a few phrases that often make the process of moving forward difficult. One of these phrases will be “room ratios”. Why even consider the dimensions of a room and how it relates to sound? Since it does […]
Speaker placement and: The 38% Rule from Wes Lachot “Several years back Wes Lachot (a very nice and gentle guy) came with a rule of thumb to define a distance from the front wall of a control room, in order to minimize x-axis (length) disturbances of the length axial modes.”
BBC British Broadcasting Corporation BBC all-PDF INDEX “This section lists all BBC RD Reports published from 1940 to 2010” RD 1984/3: The acoustic design of Outside Broadcast vehicles. E.W. Taylor “A review is given of the acoustic design of outside broadcast vehicles in terms of the constraints implicit in the use of road vehicles. A […]
Software to measure the acoustics and make better mixing decisions: Developing an acoustically enhanced recording studio has come a long way in the past 20 years. With the introduction of room acoustics software the user now has identifiable aspects for the rooms acoustics that were never available before, short of hiring an acoustics engineer to […]
STC = Sound Transmission Class This single number rating applies to the frequency range from 125Hz to 4kHz. A higher STC rating is desired especially for keeping your sound inside and the neighbors noise, outside!
French Cleat Applications for hanging treatments French Cleat: Hanging heavy pictures panels and objects securely. The French cleat is a common and useful builders method for hanging items on to walls. It is more secure and level then a nail in the wall or even picture hanging devices. As a means to hang wall panels […]
Acoustic broad band panel: How to make yours How to make a broad band acoustic panel is a much covered area of the recording environment build process. One of the best places to get accurate information on how to make broad band acoustic panels is JohnLSayers.com You may have special requirements that a general type broad band […]
