Recording Studio Design, 3rd Edition

CHAPTER 10

Limitations to Design Predictions

Measuring techniques for the evaluation of room performance. Modelling techniques for the prediction of room performance. The strengths and weaknesses of different approaches.

10.1 Room Responses

Much of the space in this book could have been filled up with corresponding plots of the reverberation times (RT₆₀) and the energy/time curves for each of the rooms discussed and for each of the photographs shown. The ‘waterfall’ plots for each room could also have been discussed, and indeed, many people would perhaps have expected such, but specifications often tell us very little about the perceived sound characteristics that we have been discussing. What is more, in the wrong hands, they can be misleading, ...