Acoustics / Studio Design

A DIY approach to control room acoustics can go a long way, but sometimes it pays to get the professionals involved.

Based on the same technology, the Iso‑Puck Mini is basically a miniaturised version of the standard Iso‑Puck.

The advice of professional acousticians can be hard to evaluate on paper — but what if you could actually hear the results of their work before building starts?

Follow one SOS reader on his quest to transform a box room into a studio worthy of the name!

What should I do if my home studio's window is located at a mirror point?

I want to record my drums at home but am having particular issues with noise annoying a downstairs neighbour!

This month’s Studio SOS challenge was to help a college music department get a better recorded drum sound.

Small rooms are often the trickiest to get right, as our visit to a TV and film composer’s new home studio proved!

This month, Studio SOS takes on a unique challenge: modifying a motorhome for use as a mobile recording studio!

As well as tackling monitoring issues, this month’s Studio SOS visit sees the team making extensive modifications to a leaky vocal booth.

A reader’s home-studio monitoring suffers from a lack of low end and poor stereo imaging. Can the Studio SOS team track down the cause?

When misfortune befell one of our contributors, we sent the SOS team to help him get his studio back up and running.

Primacoustic’s VoxGuard and VoxGuard DT are compact acoustic screens, intended for use behind microphones.

Operating rather like a subwoofer in reverse, this crafty device controls low frequencies but takes up far less space than conventional bass traps.

Could this British company’s new take on the portable vocal booth be the most effective yet?