Small Room Acoustic Treatment

And while soundproofing can definitely be incorporated as part of your acoustic treatment plan it s not technically acoustic treatment in itself.

Small room acoustic treatment.

All small untreated rooms are haunted by an acoustical monster i call the low end beast. The size of our small room environment has a major impact on the acoustical issues of the room especially at low frequencies. The beast refers to the total accumulation of mayhem at low frequencies. Acoustic treatment on the other hand aims only to control sound reflections within the room to make better sounding recordings.

Sources of mayhem include room modes the speaker boundary effect and any other acoustic distortion caused by bass waves trying to exist in small rooms. As with the use of sound absorbing panels for acoustic treatment in small room the emphasis is always on how many such sound panels are required and how they are positioned in the. Both of these are valuable but neither does the job of the other. Sound absorbing panels are commonly used in acoustic treatment of professional recording studios auditoriums concert halls and even small home studios or theaters.