Steven Klein has 35+ years experience in music studios. Starting in 1972 as an engineer/producer he joined the staff at Criteria Studios in Miami (senior staff engineer 1976 – 1982). With more than 30 gold and platinum records and hundreds of completed studios, you will receive professional, proven advice. Full service from bass traps to comprehensive interior acoustic design, studio equipment placement, speaker voicing, sound proof studio construction - large or small, our studio consultation service is affordable and designed to fit your needs.

We are a California Licensed General Building and Finish Carpentry Contracting Company, License #515303 issued 1987. We build and remodel critical acoustical environments in commercial and residential buildings. The scope of our work ranges from composer/producer rooms, state of the art theaters and recording studios, large multi-room production facilities, dance and performance venues, to small remodeling of home recording studios, practice rooms, and everything in between.

• Advice for Minimum Wall/Ceiling Layering in Critical Audio Rooms.
When deciding on the best wall assembly for your studio, you will discover many claims, statics, numbers, choices and opinions. Different testing methods, different claims from the same tests, competing manufacturers claiming to have the best solution, blogs and testimonies on the web, etc., etc. It is generally confusing which materials and assemblies are the best way to go. Without real world experience, gathering this conflicting information can produce a poorly informed decision, wasting precious time and money.

• Time to Rethink Bass Traps.
Are Bass Traps as important as we like to think? It is time to ask this question. Let’s first look at their history and evolution.

In the early, early days of acoustical recording, bass frequencies and transients could not be recorded, which is reflected in the popular music of the time. Dixieland had no bass and the drummer tapped on the rim of the snare drum. In early Jazz recordings a block of wood was used in place of the bass drum so as to avoid a booming bass. In the recording studio musicians gathered around a cone and balance was achieved by moving instruments away from the cone. The environment for this type of recording had to be without any type of bass frequencies; consequently, the first studio bass traps were born.

• Get a Bid, On What? Guidance for planning your project.
The purpose of this article is to give you the knowledge necessary to begin your project and insure a successful completion.

PROPER PLANNING:
Gives all parties a reasonable expectation, creates the greatest choices for owners, keeps contractors honest, prevents mistakes, enables accurate scheduling and saves time and money. When building, you cannot evade this truth: “Changes are expensive, Mistakes are more expensive, and Disappointment is priceless.”

• Guidelines for Placement of Acoustic Materials.
Every room has a unique sound. This quality (acoustic) comes from reflections and resonance inherent to room dimensions and construction materials. Contents of the room also affect its characteristics.
Perceived acoustics are a result of the decay of frequencies over time or reverb. It is coloration of uneven decay times that must be addressed in order to improve accuracy. Time is the challenge. Too often acoustics are approached solely from a frequency perspective. It is important to understand that acoustics are a combination of time and frequency.

All critical listening rooms require some reverb to keep from sounding ‘dead’. Acoustic design must address size and energy of wavelengths in order to reduce this energy smoothly over time.

• How much are you paying for your home studio? The answer may be more than you thought.
Today, working in your own studio is a dream that is easily realized. Flexible hours, low costs, no commuting, time for family, and creative business ideas all come together in the home-studio dream.

In a business of ideas, new thoughts and concepts are the goldmines of success. We have all heard stories of songwriters recalling mega-smash classic songs that started on a napkin or began as a riff on a portable recorder.  Life-changing inspiration can strike like lightning.

You might think good luck made songs into hits. Good luck is most often the point where preparation meets opportunity. How are you preparing yourself?

• The difference between “sound proofing” and acoustic treatment.
Sound proofing:
Refers to the quantity of isolation or privacy one area has from another. It is very difficult to achieve and requires a total approach to the problem. There is no simple solution and partial methods don’t work. Most often construction is involved. Lightweight materials such as foam placed on a wall will have no effect to the bass energy passing through the wall.

The isolation products we offer are used in building systems to help attenuate sound.  No product or system will work as a magic bullet solution - However, when materials are properly installed and combined in an overall system, they can be very effective for reducing sound transmission.

ALSO ON THE ADVICE TAB YOU WILL FIND LINKS TO INTERESTING ARTICLES.
• Saturn Polycylindrical Diffusor: Does It Run Rings Around the Competition? by Sound On Sound Magazine
• Design of the Sound System by Arthur C. Ludwig Sr.
• Mineral Wool versus Foam, some facts. by Ido, Yahoo Acoustics Group
• Room Acoustics and reverberation by Daniel A. Russell
• Standing Wave Acoustics Animations by Dr. Dan Russell
• The Audio Advisor by Elliot Cohen
• Reverberation Time Calculation by Armstrong

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New Articles by Steven Klein     “Time to Rethink Bass Traps”  “Enthusiastically sold on their benefits, and taken into this perennial belief acoustic treatment starts with bass traps you may be ill advised.” “Get a Bid, On What?”  Guidance for planning your project. Read Steven’s Children’s story

 

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