How to Build a Small Budget Recording Studio from Scratch-- With 12 Tested Designs

by Everest and F. Alton Everest

Explains how to build them & treat them acoustically, with emphasis on budget studios suited to the efficient day-to-day production of radio, audiovisual, film, & television recording. No special skills or training are required to use this book-it is of interest to anyone planning to build or remodel a small recording studio. Acoustical principles are explained in the context of real-life projects (with real-life budgets) rather than in terms of esoteric...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830691669
• ISBN13: 9780830691661
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Tab Books
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Thank you for your help

I used this book as a reference to build a private studio where I record the CDs for my label. It sounds great, reverberation is under control and low, over the whole spectrum. And it cost me HALF of what I'd expect. I used two regular doors instead of a professional grade studio door (I got this money saving idea in this book), I designed my air condinioning using his ideas (it is quiet and has no sound leakage), the cables go into the recording booth using ideas that I found here. The studio has been in operation for four years and everybody loves the sound. I can't praise it enough. My label's web site is outrosdiscos.com.br in case you want to know what was recorded here.

the good the bad and the not so clear

please excuse the review i am holding a baby. first the auther is very knowlegable about his subject matter but assumes you are to. The test designs do not cross over as to allow you to hypred his designs with any true concept other then the math and even the math is applied derectly to the specific test design w/ out help on cross over. he gives theroy but leaves out the simple but important questions that would allow one to connect the design elements w/ confendence. it rather ticked me off that he was not able to simply give a step by step summery of the basic elements before or even after the advanced info on modes and at many points left me to wonder if he really knew what to do with the room. he explained and explained, but most was a repeat of what was said in other modes or rooms and never explained why it worked one way for this room or why he did this or that for the other. It left me rereading and rereading for information that was not there. it did however have a wealth of hard to get info on modes and if you happen to be designing a room really close to his examples you are in luck it was just hard to deduce as a novice why he used certain absorbtion elements suc as hanging treatments a certion ways here and it not apply there. example there are many designs of mid band absorbers explained (although do expect to much from the figures/ illustrations which are the entire design) but they dont cross referecce as to why one works better for a certain room and how it relates to the mode and why. this would tell me so much as to the true nature of how to design my room not one of his test designs. sorry i am flying off but i wish this advanced acoustical designer would understand that if its on a budget i dought chips davis is the guy who will be reading it.

Acoustical room design using flat reverberation time

A fairly easy to read book with an analysis of 12 budget studio/control room projects ranging from a garage project to multiple purpose voice, music and video production facilities. Concentrates mostly on analyzing and using different types of construction techniques and absorbers to achieve flat reverberation time vs. frequency. Includes floor plans and detailed construction plans for walls, studio windows, and low frequency and wide band absorbers. Several reference sections are also included that deal with acoustical materials, measuring equipment and techniques