ABSTRACT

Recording Studio Design is essential reading for anyone involved in building, renovating and maintaining recording studios. Good acoustics in a recording studio is crucial to the success of a project, and the financial implications of failure means getting things right first time is essential. In straightforward language Newell covers the key basic principles of acoustics, electro-acoustics and psychoacoustics and their application to studio design. Fully updated to reflect current technology and practice additional sections include digital signal processing, design for soundtrack mixing and foley rooms, providing a complete reference offering real solutions to help improve the success rate of any studio.

chapter 1|11 pages

General requirements and common errors

chapter 2|19 pages

Sound, decibels and hearing

chapter 3|44 pages

Sound isolation

chapter 4|44 pages

Room acoustics and means of control

chapter 5|50 pages

Designing neutral rooms

chapter 6|43 pages

Rooms with characteristic acoustics

chapter 7|12 pages

Variable acoustics

chapter 9|20 pages

The studio environment

chapter 10|18 pages

Limitations to design predictions

chapter 11|41 pages

Loudspeakers in rooms

chapter 12|21 pages

Flattening the room response

chapter 13|25 pages

Control rooms

chapter 15|13 pages

Studio monitoring: the principal objectives

chapter 16|28 pages

The Non-Environment control room

chapter 17|8 pages

The Live-End, Dead-End approach

chapter 20|41 pages

Studio monitoring systems

chapter 21|35 pages

Surround sound and control rooms

chapter 22|7 pages

Human factors

chapter 23|25 pages

A mobile control room

chapter 24|13 pages

Foldback

chapter 25|14 pages

Main supplies and earthing systems

chapter 26|16 pages

Analogue audio interfacing