[BC] Dealing with the Brain Challenged

[Dana Puopolo]

I've had to live with rectangular rooms too-and you can make them sound
good....The trick is to get a good acoustic engineer to pulse them and then
put traps/diffusers in the trouble spots. 

Here's who I used in Boston for the WHDH talk studios. We moved into the old
WRKO studios from the 1960s. Since there was asbestos in the building, I had
to live with the rooms as is-and Bob made them sound VERY good!

http://www.alactronics.com

-D

From: Alan Peterson <alanpeterson at earthlink.net>

the studios were going to be rectangular with parallel walls. The inevitable
resonant ring and slap echo were going to be unbearable. 

We lobbied the upper office for trapezoidal rooms and passed our concerns on
to our architect (who had recently designed a very striking TV space). In the
end, nothing different was done. The facility really *is* a showplace, but we
ended up with one heavily-glassed studio with the ambient ring of a 1970s
shortwave radio studio; another room has a pronounced resonance at 125 Hz and
any audio recorded in there requires notching with a Para EQ to eliminate
boominess.