Book description
Build a cutting-edge sound studio--at a price that's music to your ears
How to Build a Small Budget Recording Studio from Scratch, Fourth Edition gives you detailed plans (including 12 studio designs with 23 constructed, tested, and acoustically tuned rooms from renowned acoustician, F. Alton Everest), and other resources for making your own professional-grade recording studio.
Start from scratch with techniques, practical advice, and scientific know-how that guide you on how to construct everything from floor to ceiling and wall to wall. You'll get expert recommendations on materials and equipment, how to test and adjust the finished facility for frequency response and reverberation time; mathematical formulas and simple explanations of key scientific principles; and everything else a musician, sound engineer, producer, filmmaker, or hobbyist could possibly want.
Coverage includes:
- Plans for purpose-specific studios (residential, commercial, instructional)
- How each music instrument creates sound -- and how to best record acoustical instruments
- Testing, measurement, and how to read acoustic specifications
- Premanufactured acoustic remedies
- Noise control (from HVAC equipment and other sources)
- Comes with exclusive bonus online content, including mathematical equations for acoustics, reverberation, music tempo, and pitch; listings of manufacturers of acoustic materials and test equipment; directions for how to read blueprints; and much more!
- Go to: www.mhprofessional.com/Shea4
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- How to Build a Small Budget Recording Studio from Scratch
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Introduction
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Part I Acoustic Huggies
- 1 Theoretical Acoustics
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2 Practical Acoustics
- Sound Absorptive Materials
- Foams
- Functional Baffles and Shaped Absorbers
- Curtains and Fabrics
- The Selection of Materials
- Mounting Methods
- Working with Fiberglass
- Here’s Mr. Everest’s Cheapest Wideband Absorber
- Fiberglass and Mineral Wool
- Spray-Ons
- Sound Absorption per Frequency
- Combining Materials
- Polycylindrical Diffusers
- Diaphragmatic Absorbers
- A Jig for Designing Resonant Plywood Absorbers
- Helmholtz Resonators
- Reverberation
- Noise Control
- Critical Frequency
- Coincidence Effect
- Sound Isolation and Dual Panel Wall Partitions
- TL and STC
- Barrier Materials
- Standards
- Transmission Loss (TL)
- Sound Transmission Class (STC)
- Noise Reduction Ratings
- Mounting
- Facings
- Measuring Acoustics
- Evaluating Audio (A/B Comparisons)
- Sequential Frequency Analysis
- 3 Real Time Analysis
- 4 Vibration
- 5 The Control Room Monitor System
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Part II Brick and Mortar (Drywall and Stud) Studios
- 6 My Studio—How Big and What Shape?
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7 Elements Common to All Studios
- Sound Lock Acoustical Treatment
- Acoustical Doors
- Weatherstripping Doors
- HVAC Noise
- Wall Construction
- Resilient Mounting
- Staggered Stud Construction
- Double Walls
- Concrete and Masonry Walls
- Floor-Ceiling Construction
- Electrical Wiring
- Lighting
- Observation Window
- Absorber Mountings
- Reverberation Time
- Foams
- Corner Absorbers
- Construction Permit
- 8 Audiovisual Budget Recording Studio
- 9 Studio Built in a Residence
- 10 A Small Studio for Instruction and Campus Radio
- 11 Small Ad Agency Studio for AVs and Radio Jingles
- 12 Multitrack in a Two-Car Garage
- 13 Building a Studio from Scratch for Radio Program Production
- 14 Studios for a Commercial Radio Station
- 15 One Control Room for Two Studios
- 16 A Video Mini-Studio
- 17 A Video and Multitrack Studio
- 18 A Screening Facility for Film and Video
- 19 Multiple Studios
- 20 Diffusion Confusion
- Part III New Remedies to Common Acoustic Problems
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Part IV Music Instruments
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22 How Music Instruments Produce and Propagate Sound
- Some Basic Facts about Sound Production by Music Instruments
- Sound Transmission
- Some Specific Sound Producing Mechanisms
- Sound Transmission of Acoustic Guitars
- Making Use of Physicists’ Research Experiments
- Tubes and Pipes
- The Brass and Woodwind Instrument Family
- Pipe Organs
- Reeds and Brass
- The Human Voice
- Vibrating Strings
- Bows
- Hollow Bodied Instruments
- Violins
- Bowing
- Bridges
- Some Guitar Manufacturing Theories
- The Harp
- Mechanically Plucked Strings
- Percussion Instruments
- Sound Actuators
- Membrane Radiators
- Some Drummer Stories
- What It All Boils Down To
- Microphone Placement
- Multimicing Instruments
- Examples of Microphone Placement
- Acoustic Guitar
- Acoustic Grand Piano
- Where Do You Go from Here?
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22 How Music Instruments Produce and Propagate Sound
- A Sound Absorption Coefficients for General Building Materials and Furnishings
- B Sound Absorption Coefficients of Owens-Corning Products
- C Sound Absorption Coefficients for Tectum
- References
- Index
- Footnotes
Product information
- Title: How to Build a Small Budget Recording Studio from Scratch 4/E, 4th Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2012
- Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Education TAB
- ISBN: 9780071782722
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