Music rooms, Radio and T.V Studios need to have the acoustics designed from the start as it is fundamental to the use of such rooms.

Unlike most rooms, special professional attention is required and it is important to get our acoustics engineers involved at the initial design stage. There have been many cases of such rooms being built relying on amateur advice and then problems with acoustics have arisen leading to expensive and time consuming rectification.

Most rooms require good acoustics at the middle frequency range to cater for the human voice which is around 400 Hertz to around 4,000 Hertz. However, music, radio and T.V Studio need to cope with a much wider range of frequencies from 30 Herts to 16,000 Hertz.

To cater for the wider range of frequencies , one single product may not be enough to provide a complete solution. A combination of bass absorbers, middle and high frequency absorbers and diffusors can be required. It is best to speak to one of our acoustic engineers so that the correct advice is sought.

Music practice rooms in schools are often poorly designed as just ordinary cubicles. Angling one of the walls at 8 degrees angle and ensuring that sound absorption is spread evenly around the surfaces of the room is often forgotten.

As a minimum, two of the adjacent walls should have ５0mm thick Sound QualityWalls panels and the ceiling should have Sound Quality acoustic panels . This avoids standing waves between the wall surfaces as well as the floor/ceiling. The Sound Quality can be spaced away from the ceiling to provide an excellent low frequency absorber.

Radio and T.V studios use the 40mm Wallsorba acoustic panels on walls to dampen the sound . The ５0mm Sound Quality　Wall panels are also used with an air gap behind them to create a bass trap as well as providing excellent middle and high frequency sound absorption .

If the walls are parallel to each other than Sound Quality Sound diffusers should be used to prevent “ hot and cold spots” in the room and to help distribute the sound field more evenly.

Sound transmission from outside areas ( and vice versa ) must be reduced to acceptable levels with walls , floor and ceiling constructions. Care must be taken with flanking sound transmission paths which can weaken the overall sound reduction of the constructions.

The doors are critical in such situations and 44 decibel  acoustic doorsets should be used to minimize the sound transmission rather than the widely used 30 decibel doorsets which are not adequate.