Acoustic treatment solutions for a mixing room First you want to make certain that you have your listening position set up as an equilateral triangle to produce the best possible starting position. Your speakers/monitors should be placed at a starting position 38% from the front wall as a starting position. First, let me cover why […]
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 […]
Where does the vapor barrier go on an exterior framed wall assembly? When you frame wall assemblies in a basement, and this assumes the basement is more underground than not, you install a vapor barrier on the interior side of the framed wall assembly. Not that it (the vapor barrier) would go anywhere else in a […]
Sound Transmission Loss of Masonry Walls “The most common alteration made to the walls in these tests is the addition of layers of finishing materials, most frequently gypsum wallboard (sheetrock). One might imagine that the addition of extra layers of material to a wall could only improve its performance; this is not necessarily true.” ir586 […]
Floating floor over concrete “I am going to build a wooden frame and put insulation in it and plywood on top for my home studio recording room. Everyone is doing it…Isn’t this a real floating floor?” I have seen this attempt to make a floating floor before. And some have wrestled sand into the frame […]
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 […]
HVAC Recording studio air conditioning Baffle specific instruction “…you need to widen up your individual baffles to force the air to the side walls – as it is right not the air will just do a short pass around the very edge. It works So much better if you can come in (and out) through […]
Basement moisture control starts when designing. One of the main reasons a basement gets or stays wet is due to the walls being below ground level and subject to the moisture that the Earth contains, that’s one reason. Another is the fact that the Earth is cooler and if the temperature/dew point is elevated above […]