Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Fundamentals Of Modern Recording Studios

By Johnathan Louis


Recording studios are amenities utilized for sound and voice mixing and recording. They vary in dimensions depending on the quantity of work performed within them every day. They are usually huge structures that may be situated near other businesses in town centers or on the outskirts. They are majorly situated away from businesses that produce much noise because loud sounds can mess with the superiority of the final work.

Typical studios are composed of three partitions, that is, the control room, machine room, and the studio itself. Sound for recording is produced in the studio. It is also known as the live room. Sound created inside the studio room is manipulated and recorded in the control room. The machine rooms hold noisier appliances that may interfere with quality of the sounds being recorded.

The facilities are designed under the principles of space acoustics to attain the acoustical properties needed for recording sound with accuracy and precision. This is meant to prevent interference to the sound heard by listeners. The professional who does such acoustics is called an acoustician. Acoustical properties are achieved using diffusion and absorption materials on various surfaces in the room.

The other major concern in reaching acoustical properties is the physical measurements of rooms. Dimensions are picked carefully to allow the spaces produce the required response to waves. Sonic isolation between rooms is done by soundproofing. A studio could have multiple control rooms and/or vocal booths for capturing voices.

Acoustic panels come with porous surfaces in which sound waves partly penetrate and get trapped inside, rather than totally bouncing back. Total bouncing and/or reflection of sound from various appliances deteriorate its quality by appending some harshness and obliterating coherence. This takes place before the output can reach the listener. Installing acoustic panels ends this and ensures that voice waves are rendered to listeners directly without any reflection.

Every time sound waves bounce from solid surfaces some resonance is appended, which gets delayed by a few milliseconds. The small delays in time are noticeable through the way in which they hit the ears. This enables the listener to differentiate between waves that bounce from objects, floors, walls, or ceilings and those that come directly from the speakers. This muddles the music and recording quality of productions from such amenities.

Recording studios might be used by television or animation producers, voice over artists, foley, or musicians. Sound engineers work in control rooms whereas performers work in studio rooms. They are a little expensive to establish and maintain.




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