Acoustics / Studio Design

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.

Computer noise can be a major problem in the computer-based studio, especially where instruments or vocals have to be recorded in the same room. This soundproof cabinet with in-built cooling system is designed to tackle such noise.

The SOS crew head to the 14th floor of a London tower block to help a pair of readers improve their drum sound.

Can you tell me how I should go about painting my acoustic foam panels? They are currently white and rather ugly!

These acoustic panels not only offer sonic improvements over simple acoustic-foam treatments, but are also very easy to install.

We help television composer Dave Lowe transform a cavernous-sounding spare bedroom into a usable home studio.

I recently moved house and, having now set up my equipment in a new room, I seem to have lost all of the bass end. My monitors are set up as they should be and my setup worked and sounded fine at the last house, but now for some reason the bass is only prominent at a point just behind my head in my normal sitting position. Any suggestions?

Setting up your studio in a cube-shaped room isn't a very good idea, as Pete Keen and Nick Smith found out to their cost. So the Studio SOS team set off to Kidderminster to help find some solutions to the inevitable acoustic problems.

The SOS team help Peter May to brush up his drum sounds and put more life into his mixes.

I've been encountering some problems with standing waves in the room were I do my mixing. The bass response is very uneven and I'm considering investing in some acoustic treatment, but I don't really know were to start. What are my options?

During the October 2003 AES Convention in New York, the SOS team managed to make it to Amityville to help reader (and SOS Forum regular) Glenn Bucci with his recorded guitar and bass sounds.