Handbook of Sound Studio Construction

<h4>Build first-class recording studios and listening spaces</h4><p>Design and build your own audiophile-grade recording and playback environments using proven cost-effective plans and techniques. <i>Handbook of Sound Studio Construction: Rooms for Recording and Listening</i> explains practical acoustical properties and describes how to engineer acoustically sensitive spaces including music recording studios control rooms voice studios home project studios A/V suites media rooms and surround-sound home theaters.</p><p>Learn how to choose room dimensions select building materials construct your own custom treatments maximize isolation and generate and analyze response curves. This do-it-yourself guide incorporates decades of roomdesign experience and provides you with the practical knowledge to design and build your own acoustical spaces or improve existing spaces.</p><p>Coverage includes:</p><ul> <li>An introduction to room acoustics and acoustical design</li><li>Reflecting absorbing and diffusing materials</li><li>Room geometry modes and treatment</li><li>Acoustic isolation site selection and HVAC design</li><li>Wall floor and ceiling construction</li><li>Window and door design considerations</li><li>Reverberation times early reflections and psychoacoustics</li><li>Objective and subjective room evaluation</li><li>Plans and specifications for 10 recording and listening rooms</li></ul>