Preface to the Third Edition

This book is about small studios: How to build them and how to treat them acoustically. Details of design, construction, and treatment of twelve actual studio suites are included. Acoustical principles are discussed along the way in the context of real life projects and problems rather than as blue sky theory.

The emphasis of this book is on budget studios which are eminently suited to efficient production of radio, audiovisual, video, film, and television program material on a day-to-day, routine basis and for training students in these fields. These studios operate in a different world from the flamboyant recording studios with gold records on the wall designed to catch the eye of the well-heeled client. The operators ...

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