Internal Acoustics

      The internal acoustics of control rooms is one area where, in many cases, the dark arts seem to take over from modern science. ESS has built its reputation on rooms where the monitoring sounds right throughout the whole room, not just at some 'sweet spot'. A well designed room will enable you to produce mixes which sound the same when listened to in other environments. For a fuller explanation of why control rooms need to be different from the club or living room in which the product will eventually be enjoyed by your public, go to the articles section of this site.

      The actual process of designing your room's internal acoustics begins with a computer model of the space to predict the frequencies of the resonant modes, and arrange surface treatments to achieve a decay time which is the same at all frequencies. For a room with fairly simple geometry this process usually takes about one day.
      More complicated shapes of room require a slightly lengthier process, since each surface has to be entered individually into the model, but the result is essentially the same, a listing of dimensions and surface finishes from which the rest of the design process follows.