Heavy curtains made from thick material such as velvet are often needed to keep noise out of indoor environments, but Swiss researchers have come up with another option. The Empa researchers, in ...

DAMPA® is a Danish company specialised in the development and production of acoustic steel and aluminium ceilings, as well as acoustic wall panels for the building industry. Acoustics has a great ...

Whether it’s audio, video, post, or editing, one aspect of good control room design involves the proper use and placement of acoustical materials, primarily absorbers and diffusors, and sometimes ...

DAMPA® is a Danish company specialised in the development and production of acoustic steel and aluminium ceilings, as well as acoustic wall panels for the building industry. Good acoustics are ...

THERE are two methods of measuring the amounts of sound absorbed by various materials. One is the reverberation method of W. C. Sabine, in which a specimen of the material to be tested is mounted on ...

If your work involves recording live audio, acoustic foam is one of the simplest and most effective ways to improve your sound. An unfitted room cluttered with hard surfaces – walls, floors, desks, ...

A concert hall is a hall of mirrors — acoustic mirrors. When sound hits a hard surface, it is reflected just as light is. Masonry, plaster, timber and glass all reflect sound with very little energy ...

From echoing hallways and idling buses to boisterous band practices and shop classes, schools have long been known as noisy environments. Beyond the sounds produced by occupants and vehicles, ...

Attending a mathematics seminar in UCD recently, I could understand hardly a word. The problem lay not with the arcane mathematics but with the room's poor acoustics. The lecturer spoke so rapidly ...