Sound Blocking
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Interview Room Sound Transmission and Reverberation Issues
From privacy to sound quality, sound and noise issues in an interview room are very important. Privacy issues arise when sound transfers between two spaces. Poor quality recordings are a result of echo and reverberation in the room. Below we’ll tell you how to effectively fight these soundproofing and noise control issues. Blocking sound transmission […] Read More »
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2012 Olympics: A Study in Reducing Structure-Borne Noise
Today marks the opening ceremony for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Preparations for this event spanned years and required an enormous amount of money, but a few of the structures built specially for the games still required some last-minute acoustical problem solving. Noise control issues are commonly overlooked in the design and construction of […] Read More »
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Noisy Restaurants: Diners Notice, and it Can be Fixed
I’m going to be honest… before coming to Acoustical Solutions, I paid very little attention to acoustics. I understood what soundproofing meant, but I had no idea there were so many products dedicated to manipulating the way sound behaves in a given space. Now that I have been in the industry for a while, constantly […] Read More »
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Studio Acoustics: Treat Recording and Live Rooms
Studio acoustics is probably one of the most complicated subjects for any article covering acoustics. The reason for this is that there are so many different points to consider, such as: Room size and shape Need for sound isolation Dual purpose rooms requiring variable acoustics Personal preferences Budget constraints And on and on it goes. […] Read More »
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Egg Cartons Get Egg on Their Face in Acoustics Test
So, if you’ve spend much time at all in the Acoustics Industry, sooner or later you are going to hear this: “Well we could just put some egg cartons on the walls to treat the room.” Not exactly. Well, you could, but your studio or home theater will look like a recycling center and not […] Read More »
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How to Soundproof (Sound Blocking)
FOAM DOES NOT STOP SOUND FROM GOING THROUGH WALLS. To tackle the topic of “how to soundproof”, I thought I should just go ahead and get that out of the way. It is used to stop echoes in a room. The reason you see it in soundproof recording studios is because they have already done […] Read More »
