Want to create a studio or theatre with the best accoustic qualities and properties?
The accoustics of a recording studio, listening or theatre room is arguably more important than almost anything else!
There are four primary goals of accoustic treatment:

1. To prevent standing waves and accoustic interference from affecting the frequency response of the room.
2. To reduce modal ringing in small rooms and lower the reverb time in larger rooms such as theatres, churches and auditoriums.
3. To absorb sound in the room to avoid ringing and flutter echoes, and improve stereo imaging.
4. To keep sound from leaking into or out of a room.

Mid-range absorbers help minimize echoes and ringing, but unlike diffusion, absorption also reduces a room's reverb time. This makes the sound clearer and lets you better hear the sound quality. For example, if you make mixing decisions in a room that is too reverberant, you will probably add too little reverb electronically because what you hear includes the room's inherent reverb. Likewise, if the room is overly bright sounding due to insufficient absorption, the mix will tend to sound muffled when played on other systems because the treble adjustments will be incorrect. Therefore, absorption is used to avoid flutter echo, ringing, and comb filtering, but without reducing the room's natural ambience.
Bass traps are used to reduce the low frequency reverb time in a large space, but are more commonly used in recording studios to reduce modal ringing and flatten the frequency response in the bass range.
Treating a theatre or studio with absorption paneling and bass traps on the surfaces of the room, create an environment that controls flutter echoes and boundary loading problems, mode build-up, standing waves and impulse ringing. This all produces a studio that is acoustically bright and natural.
The number of bass traps and mid-range absorbers needed solely depends on the size of the room. Hammerhead Studios has developed a tried and tested solution to best advise on the number of mid-range absorbers and bass traps needed via a 3D visual and sound program.