Recording Studio Design, 2nd Edition

Appendix 1

Extracted from the Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics (UK), (Vol. 22, Part 6) Reproduced Sound 16 Conference, Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK, pp. 179–91 (November 2000)

The measurement and analysis of a control room acoustic treatment during construction

Philip R. Newell and Keith R. Holland

Introduction

As part of an investigation being undertaken at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR) at Southampton University, UK, into the effectiveness of various forms of low-frequency absorption systems, advantage was taken of the opportunity to measure the progressive effects of the acoustic control treatments in a ground up studio during its construction. (Tio Pete, Bilbao, in the Basque Country of Spain.) The sound control ...