Acoustics
Lets be honest, Acoustics and the way sound behaves has not changed since Adam and Eve
What has changed is the way we treat the application of the science of acoustics, the methods we use to build acoustic walls, acoustic floors & ceilings.
The methods we use to control the sound have also improved – we can get a given performance by utilising cost effective products in innovative ways.
Acoustic Design has two parts:
- Isolation – the ability to stop sound getting out or entering the area involved.
- Acoustic control of the sound to give an accurate reproduction of sources yet being not too lively nor too dead.
Isolation - the ability to stop sound getting out or entering the area involved.
So an ideal studio from an isolation point perspective would be a concrete bunker in the middle of a field. Nice idea but we have never seen one. –So we need to design studios with the attributes of a concrete bunker, and that means weight a lot of weight. We create isolation with heavy multiple panels separated by air gaps and decoupling layers not as heavy as concrete and certainly not as costly but still heavy.