Consultancy

Room design

When designing rooms acoustically, it is important to have a clear view of the end goal. What is the room going to be used for? What frequency range do you need an even response? What level of reverberation is required? Does it need to be isolated from other noise?

Not all rooms need to be “dead” acoustically as they can sound lifeless. However, if you are building a recording studio or a concert hall for classical musicians there is a big difference in terms of appropriate treatment. Some of the rooms we have experience in designing are listed below:

Anechoic and reverberant chamber design for a given specification to accurately measure product noise and sound power. Both techniques work for different reasons but one is very reverberant with many seconds of RT60 (like a cathedral) and the other is very dead with less than 0.2 seconds of RT60 (sound stops nearly instantly). If you are building a full anechoic or hemispherical chamber, it will never be cheap. However, simple test chambers need not be expensive especially if you only want to test the mid and high frequencies. We built one for around £40 including a built in amplifier!

Music studios where sound isolation is important and accuracy of recording is the goal. Reverberation is easy to add but harder to remove! Practice rooms and halls with multiple uses could benefit from having adjustable acoustic treatments rather than fixed panels. This category also includes vocal and drum isolation booths to prevent cross talk between different microphones. Relatively low cost solutions can be applied to existing rooms to minimise noise break out and improve the environment for the musicians.

Home Cinema and Listening rooms including bespoke acoustic treatments to control room resonances without losing the life in the sound. Either a dedicated build giving you the maximum benefits or a conversion of another room at home for your enjoyment at low cost. Hidden treatments are key to maintaining a pleasing aesthetic and allowing it to be “lived in”. Click here for more information on attenuating problem low frequencies.

Loudspeaker and Transducer design

Loudspeaker design is our passion as we love music reproduced as accurately as practicable and over the full audible bandwidth. We have experience in the design of transducers and cabinets (including CTL and CCL technology) for Hi Fi, home cinema, pro-audio and automotive sectors as well as for underwater acoustics.

If you are interested in learning more about how we can assist with your own company design, please contact us here.