Acoustics / Studio Design

This month's task for the SOS crew involves stripping down Simon McEvoy's entire studio to improve the acoustics and ergonomics.

The team create portable acoustic treatment for a TV/film music composer who has plans to move house.

SE Electronics' portable screen is designed to turn any room into a vocal booth.

This month the team travel to Wales to mix vocals, acoustic guitars, and a troublesome hurdy-gurdy for a studio based in a mobile home!

We have set up a new recording studio at our school [Radley College in Oxfordshire]. It's not huge, but we do...

Flying duvets provide an emergency remedy for control-room acoustics in The Lab's two-storey industrial unit.

Drum recording problems face the Studio SOS team this month, as they sort out two Bristol-based studios at once.

I'm having a small vocal booth built within an open-plan office to record voiceovers for games and DVDs. The main reasons...

This time, the team convert a small empty room into a professional vocal booth within the space of a single afternoon!

The Studio SOS visits have shown that many home studio owners are having problems with their monitoring. So this month we explain the principles anyone can use to get their own control room sounding right.

The SOS team get busy at the London studio of a band called South, by transforming the sound of their troublesome monitoring room.

This SOS reader was having trouble with his monitoring, so the SOS team sped over to his home studio in Bristol, England to sort things out.

I'm just about to set up a studio in a room of my house and I was wondering if you have any tips on where to put everything...

In another exciting installment of our studio 'makeover' series, the team rotate Bella Saer's entire setup through 90 degrees in search of a more effective working environment.

The SOS team purge the unwanted buzzes and hums from reader Jim Fish's new studio.

The intrepid SOS crew answer a call for help from a drummer whose studio requires a monitoring and acoustics makeover...

I'm looking to acoustically treat my home studio primarily for recording vocals. I've heard that putting acoustic foam...

The SOS team return to Cambridge, turning another home studio upside down in search of improved vocal and guitar sounds.

Real Traps' biggest bass trap offers heavy-duty low-frequency absorption for the serious home studio.

The owner of an unusually bijou studio setup provides the chocolate biscuits this month, as the SOS team get busy helping to improve the performance of his gear and the sound of his recordings.

Acoustic problems and mains hum were making Aniff's studio difficult to use, so the SOS team stepped in to help.