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Recording Studio Design, 3rd Edition
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Recording Studio Design, 3rd Edition

by Philip Newell
August 2012
Beginner
832 pages
26h 38m
English
Focal Press
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CHAPTER 17

The Live-End, Dead-End Approach *

The aims of the concept. The reflexion-free zone. Means of achieving the ‘live’ element. The need for a uniform decay rate. The practical needs of modern control rooms.

An earlier studio control room design philosophy than that of the Non-Environment room is the so-called Live-End, Dead-End (LEDE). As with the Non-Environment approach, this divides the control room into areas of contrasting acoustic function in an attempt to provide a listening environment that makes the room’s own acoustics subservient to those of the monitored programme.

The quote attributed to Jack Wrightson1 in the account of the Non-Environment room (Section 16.9) provides an equally valid reference point for the LEDE philosophy: ...

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