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With the advances in digital technology, musicians can now produce their own music at home. Over the years the gear has gotten much better, and musicians have learned a awesome deal about recording. So why do so many musicians and engineers have difficulty getting truly professional-sounding results? One reason? Acoustics.

If the room you're working in has poor acoustics, it will be extremely difficult -- if not impossible -- to produce excellent results. You can't capture a true sound if the microphones don't hear the instruments and vocals correctly. You have to be able to hear what's truly going on with your tracks to make the proper decisions about editing, equalizing, processing, and mixing them. Acoustics can be a complex, math-laden science, but treating a room to make it sound incredible and function optimally as a recording studio needn't be diffi cult nor require hours in front of a calculator or computer screen. Improving a studio's acoustics can be brain-dead really simple and inexpensive -- all you need is some guidance.

Acoustic Design for the Home Studio focuses on creating a greatsounding home or project studio in an existing room. It teaches the basic principles of acoustics that affect you in your home or project studio and how to solve any acoustical problems you may have without laying out much (or any) money. Whether you're converting a bedroom, a garage, a basement, or a corner of the living room, this book will help you improve the sound of the environment in which you're making music. The principles are really simple to understand and the materials used for treating a room are readily available. Diagrams and photos of actual rooms created with the designs are included to illustrate concepts. Whether you want to pursue a no-cost solution, use "off -the-shelf" acoustic materials, or even splurge with an unlimited budget, you'll learn how to put your room together easily and effectively.


Acoustic Design for the Home Studio Features:

• Presents complex acoustical theory in understandable fashion - no math or physics knowledge required!
  
• Created with in and consultation from Jeff Szymanski, a noted acoustician, plus from Russ Berger, world-renowned studio designer/architect
  
• 272 pages
• Includes advice on acoustically treating any studio regardless of budget
  
• Features before/during/after acoustical measurements of genuine home studio rooms that demonstrate the effectiveness of various treatments
  
• Teaches readers how to apply basic acoustical principles to make a great-sounding home or project studio without spending much money