ABSTRACT
This chapter describes acoustic treatments, wiring, and equipment for both audio-only rooms and video or film editing rooms where sound is considered important. While sound studios are usually built to higher acoustic standards than rooms that concentrate on picture, there's absolutely no difference in the principles involved. Monitor systems that are a couple of decades old are still in daily use at professional studios. Any good studio recording console has a mono test switch, which temporarily combines the stereo channels and routes them to both speakers. Elevate small speakers to ear level. This usually means putting them on the same shelf as the picture monitors. In-ear monitors are molded to fit in the ear canal. They're unobtrusive, and can provide excellent isolation. But making them accurate requires careful engineering (and often, custom molding for the user's ear), so good ones are expensive.
