How to Build A
Small Budget Recording Studio from Scratch, 4E
by
Mike Shea, F. Alton Everest
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!
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Contents:
Part I: Acoustic Huggies
1. Theoretical Acoustics
2. Practical Acoustics
3. Real Time Analysis
4. Vibration
5. The Control Room Monitor System
Part II: Brick and Mortar (Drywall and Stud) Studios
6. My Studio--How Big and What Shape?
7. Elements Common to All Studios
8. Audiovisual Budget Recording Studio
9. Studio Built in a Residence
10. A Small Studio for Instruction and Campus Radio
11. Small Ad Agency 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
21. An Introduction to Today's Premanufactured Acoustic
Panels and Systems
Part IV: Music Instruments
22. How Music Instruments Produce and Propagate Sound
Appendix A. Sound Absorption Coefficients for General
Building Materials and Furnishings
Appendix B. Sound Absorption Coefficients of Owens-Corning
Products
Appendix C. Sound Absorption Coefficients for Tectrum
References
Index
About the
Author:
Mike Shea has been involved in professional audio since
the 1960s when he opened his own recording studio in Massachusetts.
He relocated to New York in the 1970s and began a successful
independent contracting career building rehearsal and recording
studios.
Shea taught graduate courses at the Institute of Audio Research,
served as technical editor of International Musician and
editor of Recording World magazines and has written
extensively about all aspects of professional audio.
Softcover
464 Pages
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