Irving Arts Center Acoustic Treatment

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An outside view of the Irving Arts Center building in Irving, Texas.

The Issue

The Irving Arts Center in Irving, Texas serves as the cultural center in this large subsection of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Along with being the venue of choice for the Irving Symphony Orchestra, the Irving Arts Center hosts close to 300 events a year, from exhibitions to musical and theatrical performances, to a variety of classes for children. The large rehearsal and multipurpose room at the center would have served as the perfect area for large group classes such as children’s fitness and art classes, as well as a place for musical acts to warm up their instruments and voices. However, the hard block walls created reverberation that was so intense, loud speech or music was unintelligible, and having large groups of loud children was out of the question.

AlphaSorb® Fabric Wrapped Acoustic Panels on the wall of the Irving Arts Center.

The Challenge

JD Sones, the House Sound Engineer for The Irving Arts Center, contacted Acoustical Solutions, who helped Sones design a layout for the room using Acoustical Solutions’ most popular product, the AlphaSorb® Fabric Wrapped Acoustic Panel. Twenty black panels were custom-made in thin column shapes and installed along the exposed block walls in an alternating pattern to absorb sound waves causing the intense reverberation, and also to leave some space exposed to break up waves. This created a diffusive effect, leaving some ‘liveliness’ in the sound of the room.

The Result

After installation of the panels, the room became the favorite space for a variety of the Irving Art Center’s events, including kid’s yoga and jazz classes. The Irving Symphony Orchestra, which plays regularly at the center, loved rehearsing in the room – almost more than they loved performing in front of an audience in the auditorium.

In the Customer’s Own Words

“We used AlphaSorb® Acoustical Wall Panels from Acoustical Solutions in our rehearsal space to absorb reverberation and the Irving Symphony Orchestra actually prefers playing there to the stage. It sounds great.” — JD Sones, House Sound Engineer, Irving Arts Center

To learn more about how Acoustical Solutions can solve your noise control problems, use our contact form, call one of our Acoustical Sales Consultants at (800) 782-5742, or visit us on the web at acousticalsolutions.com.

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