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Auditorium acoustics 101 – how to create amazing acoustics for auditoriums and why it matters
If you’re one of the lucky ones who get to see a lot of live music, you know how great auditorium shows sound. They blow places like stadiums and dive bars out of the water. Auditoriums are popular venues for live music because the way they are constructed is a perfect vehicle for delivering sound […]
Sound Absorption and Fireproofing in Acoustic Solutions
Reducing our exposure to noise is important in various environments, and it’s an absolute necessity in others. In order to keep noise under control and improve acoustics in indoor spaces, we turn to sound absorbing materials. In cases where fire retardancy is of utmost importance, fire-resistant or fireproof sound absorbing materials are our best options. […]
A Guide to Acoustic Flooring: Commercial and Industry
There are so many options out there when it comes to industrial and commercial sound absorbing flooring, deciding on what material is best for your business can feel overwhelming. When you are redesigning a space, it can be tough to visualize the space with a new look. Not only are you looking for something that […]
The Benefits of Commercial Soundproofing
When building or renovating a commercial space, soundproofing can be easily overlooked. With all the focus on how a place is going to look, how a place sound isn’t always considered—but it should be. Commercial soundproofing comes in many forms and does a great deal of work to create an environment conducive to productivity, effective […]
The Importance of Soundproofing Warehouses
Whether it’s communication with customers or communication between team members, the key to any successful business is communication. That is especially true on warehouse and factory floors. The combination of heavy machinery and large quantities of products can make verbal communication difficult at best and dangerously absent at worse. To ensure safety and efficiency, soundproofing […]
NRC Rating 101 – Understanding the Noise Reduction Coefficient
If you’ve found yourself looking into NRC rating, there’s a good chance you’re working on a project that requires sound absorption to reduce echo and reverberation in a room or space. Perhaps you’re starting a podcast or building a sound studio in your home. Maybe you are trying to improve the acoustics at your workplace […]
Quieting an Apartment
“I live in an apartment that occupies the half of the bottom floor of an owner occupied home. My bedroom is directly below my landlord’s and despite the six inches of concrete between our spaces, the ability for noise to travel from up to down is amazing […]
Child’s Bedroom Soundproofing
“We built an addition to our home and our master bedroom shares a wall with our youngest son’s bedroom. Unfortunately, any noise in our room is heard in his room. Talking, TV (even low volume), listening to radio – it is all heard in the next room which keeps him awake (or wakes him up) and provides us with no privacy. Do you have any solutions, short of ripping out the wall and replacing it, to put on the wall to stop the sound?” There are a few things to consider, but fixing the problem is not an impossible task. We receive a lot of inquiries from people who, of course, want an easy and simple solution that will not create a big mess. Occasionally this is a possibility, but to get the job done correctly, some construction is almost always involved. Let’s take this one step at a time […]
Quieting My Son’s Drum Room?
“We are considering some level of soundproofing for our son’s bedroom. He plays the drums, and our house is not large, so we would greatly benefit from something that would help block/absorb some of the sound. Can you help with this?” In order to block sound, one needs to do one of two things. First would be to build a room within a room so that the sheet rock of the drum room does not have any hard surface contact with the sheet rock on the adjacent rooms […]
Whispering Galleries
Have you ever heard of a whispering gallery? It is an architectural feature that allows a whisper to be heard clearly across other parts of the gallery.
