| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 711 pages) : illustrations |
| Summary |
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. *Provides great detail on the practical recording application in various acoustic environments *Complex issues are explained and real solutions provided *Benefit from Newell's years of experience, designing over 200 studios including Manor and Town House Studios. |
| Contents |
General requirements and common errors; Sound, decibels and hearing; Sound isolation; Room acoustics and means of control; Designing neutral rooms; Rooms with characteristic acoustics; Variable acoustics; Room combinations and operational considerations; The studio environment; Limitations to design predictions; Loudspeakers in rooms; Flattening the room response; Control rooms; The behaviour of multiple loudspeakers in rooms; Studio monitoring: the principal objectives; The non-environment control room; The live-end, dead-end approach; Response disturbances due to mixing consoles and studio furniture; Objective measurement and subjective evaluations; Studio monitoring systems; Surround sound and control rooms; Human factors; A mobile control room; Appendices; Glossary of terms. |
| Note |
Previous edition: 2003. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. General requirements and common errors -- Ch. 2. Sound, decibels and hearing -- Ch. 3. Sound isolation -- Ch. 4. Room acoustics and means of control -- Ch. 5. Designing neutral rooms -- Ch. 6. Rooms with characteristic acoustics -- Ch. 7. Variable acoustics -- Ch. 8. Room combinations and operational considerations -- Ch. 9. The studio environment -- Ch. 10. Limitations to design predictions -- Ch. 11. Loudspeakers in rooms -- Ch. 12. Flattening the room response -- Ch. 13. Control rooms -- Ch. 14. The behaviour of multiple loudspeakers in rooms -- Ch. 15. Studio monitoring: the principal objectives -- Ch. 16. The non-environment control room -- Ch. 17. The live-end, dead-end approach -- Ch. 18. Response disturbances due to mixing consoles and studio furniture -- Ch. 19. Objective measurement and subjective evaluations -- Ch. 20. Studio monitoring systems -- Ch. 21. Surround sound and control rooms -- Ch. 22. Human factors -- Ch. 23. A mobile control room -- Ch. 24. Foldback -- Ch. 25. Main supplies and earthing systems -- Ch. 26. Analogue audio interfacing. |
| Summary |
"Essential for anyone building, renovating or maintaining a recording studio; includes 3 whole new chapters on foldback, electrical supplies and analogue interfacing; new sections on cinema soundtrack mixing rooms and TV voice rooms. Covering acoustics, electro-acoustics and psychoacoustics Newell uses real world studios, their problems and solutions, to provide the foundations for successful studio design and maintenance."--Page 4 of cover |
| Subject |
Sound studios -- Design.
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Acoustical engineering.
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Acoustique appliquée. |
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Acoustical engineering |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Newell, Philip Richard. Recording studio design. 2nd ed. Oxford : Elsevier/Focal Press, 2008 9780240520865 0240520866 (OCoLC)271692808 |
| ISBN |
0080556051 (electronic bk.) |
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9780080556055 (electronic bk.) |
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