Auditorium & Theater Acoustics
ArtUSA Auditorium Acoustics
Well designed Auditoriums will consist of non-parallel surfaces that will serve to break up standing soundwaves, scattering the acoustics and preventing "dead" spots in the room. If your room is more gymnasium shaped, there will be more repetition in the path of the reflecting sounds. This will increase the potential for "live" or "dead" spots, and therefore increase your need for diffusion panels. Remember that absorption panels reduce background noise, while diffusion panels are designed to scatter sound reflections into multiple directions for greater acoustic balance in the room
For fan shaped auditoriums with inclined floors, use a ratio of 10:1 when determining quantities of diffusion panels over absorption panels.
Thicker material will collapse more low bass reverberation in the room. Go with 2" thick Fabric Panels over the 1" thickness. Our goal is to absorb enough background noise in the room to produce excellent speech clarity, but leave enough reverb in the room to blend the musical tones together.
Large auditoriums need sound absorption materials to reduce reverberation (echo) within the room. Sound absorption materials are critical to the design of auditoriums and theaters as built or as a retrofit application. Auditoriums and theaters often have hard reflective walls and floors requiring sound reduction. Acoustical wall panels, curtains and baffles reduce ambient noise levels.
ArtUSA Home Theater Noise Control & Soundproofing
When building a custom home theater room, you have two different acoustic problems to deal with. One is reducing sound transmission levels from your home theater room to adjoining rooms, basically allowing the home theater to be enjoyed at higher volume levels without disturbing neighbors or houseguests in other rooms. You can add soundproofing to your home theater room by using sound barriers and isolation clips underneath the drywall on the walls and ceilings. The other area to be concerned with when building your custom home theater is improving the sound quality within the home theater room itself, generally this involves the use of sound absorption products. When building a custom home theater room, you must keep in mind the interior finish of the room. ArtUSAs offers many custom fabricated fabric wrapped wall panels , which are designed to be acoustically effective and aesthically pleasing. These acoustical wall panels add a plush feel to your home theater interior.
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