- 256 Pages
- Published by Cengage Learning
Product Description
With the advances in digital technology, musicians can now produce their own music at home. Over the years the gear has gotten much better, and musicians have learned a great deal about recording. So why do so many musicians and engineers have difficulty getting truly professional-sounding results? One reason? Acoustics. If the room you’re working in has poor acoustics, it will be extremely difficult — if not impossible — to produce excellent results. You can’t ca… More >>
Acoustic Design for the Home Studio
Tags: acoustic design, acoustics, digital technology, musicians, own music
#1 by Lone Centrist on June 27, 2010 - 4:38 pm
There are a lot of books on setting up and working in a home studio – very few on treating the frequency response – fewer on doing it on the cheap using the room you have. This is such a book. The case studies are useful and after seeing a few, a pattern emerges and the mystique falls away and you realize that its not such a black art and you can do it yourself using various inexpensive materials. I definitely found this to be a great reasource for getting my room response under control while spending just a couple hundred dollars.
This book is a gem.
Rating: 4 / 5
#2 by John Matlock on June 27, 2010 - 4:52 pm
The equipment available today at the ‘advanced amateur’ level far exceeds that which was available to the professional only a few years ago. But the quality of the recordings being made do not come up to professional standards. Apart from skill at using the equipment, the biggest difference is the studio where the work is being done.
If the sound is being bounced all around the room in an uncontrollable manner, this will be recorded faithfully by the equipment. The equipment cannot distinguish the sounds you want (and hear) but takes in what your ears are rejecting.
This is an excellent book that gives a bit of the theory of acoustics and studio design and then gives practical examples of studios that were constructed using these principles. There are a number of designs described which cover a range in cost from near nothing to designs that you’d better discuss with your wife before you start spending money. Most of these designs do not involve altering the basic structure of the room itself, just panels you might attach and then take down when you move.
This book is an excellent introduction to a fairly arcane subject.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Midwest Book Review on June 27, 2010 - 5:35 pm
It used to be that musicians went to a professional studio to make recordings; but with all the advancements in computer and recording technology, such a studio is affordable for the home – and ACOUSTIC DESIGN FOR THE HOME STUDIO tells how to make a room perfect for the recording sound desired. Tips on how to sound-proof a home or project studio tell how to use an existing room, whether it be garage or bedroom, and provide diagrams, photos of revamped rooms, and tips on getting the most from such a project.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by Alex S. Fishburn on June 27, 2010 - 7:02 pm
Before this book I read Basic Home Studio Design by Paul White. This book was very introductory and helped me get somewhat comfortable with the terminology and some standard ways of treating rooms.
Mitch Gallagher’s book was definitely a step up from that. It was much more informative and introduced many ways of treating a room (broadband absorbers, bass traps, foam, ceiling clouds, etc.)
This book will without a doubt help one get associated with acoustics. Read the book in its entirety. The only crucial thing that I don’t think it focused on much was how to measure your room yourself (acoustically, for flutter echo, decay time, frequency response, etc.)
But, it does give some information that one will be able to figure out and apply properly with a little internet research.
All in all, a very good book that will be very helpful.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Gabriel Heiser on June 27, 2010 - 8:51 pm
This book helped me to create a dozen acoustic panels from rockwool, covering them with burlap, and helped me figure out where to hang them in my home studio. It was great to be able to see examples of other studios and how the various acoustic treatments were handled. In addition, there is much basic information that explains why these treatments work and why they are necessary.
Rating: 5 / 5