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Acoustic Treatments in the Primacoustic London 16 room kit

Example London 16 Applications

Here are two examples of how to use the Primacoustic London 16 ‘studio in a box’ room kit.

EXAMPLE 1: LEDE Mixing / Listening Room using the Primacoustic London 16

One application for the Broadway London 16 room kit is to create a mixing / listening space based on a Live End, Dead End control room. The images above shown an example project studio set up this way but you can also apply the concept to a listening room or home theater. 

Here, the front end of the room is surfaced with broadband absorption with the goal of creating a reflection free zone (RFZ) around the listener. This allows for accurate listening.  Less absorption is used in the back end of the room to preserve some liveliness. If you add diffusers there, the live end can also create an enhanced sense of spaciousness in the room.

If your listening position is 10 feet or more from the back wall, consider adding diffusion as shown in the RPG Room Correction Kit. However, if your listening position is less than 10 feet from your back wall, we recommend you absorb back wall reflections instead of diffusing them.

EXAMPLE 2: Treating a Vocal Room using the Primacoustic London 16

Here’s how to apply the acoustic treatments in the London 16 to treat a 10’ x 12’ vocal room or small voiceover studio.

General Strategy: In this case we want to apply heavy absorption to avoid ambience in your vocal room, but provide a few reflections so the room does not sound anechoic.

Walls: Add as much absorption to your walls as possible, particularly the back wall (the wall you face away from while recording). You can use the Primacoustic Control Columns for this, but in the perfect world, if you had a professional studio, you would cover that entire wall with thick absorption down to the lower limits of the vocal range (about 90 Hz).

 
Ceiling: To prevent flutter echo and absorb first reflections from the ceiling, add broadband absorption (such as Scatter Blocks, Control Columns or Broadband Panels) to your ceiling above the recording position. 1” thick is a minimum, 2” thick is better. As a rough guideline, broadband absorbers 1” thick tend to be effective in the range of 1000 – 4500+ Hz, while 2” absorbers tend to be effective in the range of 500-4500+ Hz.

Extra Bass Trapping: Mount additional bass traps (or Broadway Broadband Panels) straddling the top and bottom corners of your room. The more bass trapping, the better.

 
If you run out of space for bass trapping, use any extra Broadway Panels as absorption on the back wall (first priority), side walls, ceiling and front wall. You can also double up the thickness of your panels at the wall corners to increase the bass trapping effectiveness.

Recommended Enhancements to the Primacoustic London 16

To address the low frequency acoustics in your room we recommend enhancing the London 16 room kit with additional bass traps such as the Primacoustic MaxTrap (corner-mounted), FullTrap (wall-mounted) or the RPG Modex Corner.

A ceiling cloud will also help improve listening clarity by absorbing first reflections from the ceiling and eliminating flutter echo between the floor and ceiling.

For a complete room treatment solution, supplement the Primacoustic London 16 with extra bass traps, a ceiling cloud and diffusers (depending on the size of your room). Or, if you’re looking for the ultimate studio in a box room treatment kit, consider the RPG AcousticTool Level 3 Room Correction Package.

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Basic Reflection Control using the London 12 Kit

You can use the London 12 kit to increase listening clarity by placing absorption at the first reflection points in your room. Early reflections are the first reflections we hear within about 100 ms of hearing the direct sound of the source. These give important cues about our location in a room relative to the walls, floor and ceiling. However, in small rooms these reflections tend to interfere with the sound coming from your speakers, causing a comb filtering effect that reduces clarity. In small rooms you can make your speakers sound more accurate by absorbing these early reflections.

Example Application in a Live-End, Dead-End Room

Live-End, Dead-End (LEDE) control rooms are intended to allow critical listening without creating an acoustically dead environment. The front of the control room, or ‘dead-end’, relies on high absorption to prevent early reflections from interfering with the direct sound from the monitors (loudspeakers). The back end of the control room, or ‘live-end’, is covered with broadband diffusers to scatter reflections back toward the listening position with a dense, non-uniform texture.

You can use the Primacoustic London 12 kit as shown in the example drawings to create a basic Live-End, Dead-End concept in your listening room, mixing room, home studio or home theatre. If you’re sitting less than 10 feet from your back wall, we recommend you use extra absorption there instead of diffusers. If you’re in a larger room and you have the space for diffusers, you will be better off using the London 16 room kit augmented with diffusers and bass traps.

Primacoustic London 12 room kit features:

The Primacoustic London 12 room kit provides the following acoustic treatments:

Recommended Additional Acoustic Treatments

To achieve balanced acoustics in your room you will also need absorption that targets the low frequency room modes. Augment the London 12 kit with bass traps such as the MaxTrap, FullTrap or Modex Corner.

An absorptive ceiling cloud will also help with early reflection control to increase listening transparency.

For more complete acoustic control in your project studio (or to treat larger rooms), see the London 16 room kit.

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The design of the ACTL3 room kit is based primarily on 14 x 10 x 8 foot high room. By augmenting the basic package with additional items, any room size up to 19 x 19 feet can be treated.

*Recommended Enhancements:

1) Additional corner bass traps. For rooms with parallel surfaces close to 9 feet apart (E.g., 8-12 feet), we recommend bass management using four RPG Modex™ Corner Traps tuned to 63 Hz. Otherwise, we recommend using broadband corner bass traps (or tuned traps with a center frequency appropriate for your room).

2) To improve listening clarity and timbre, add ceiling panels or a cloud at the first reflection point above the listening position. Options include the RPG Abflector™, RPG BAD™ Panels, or other products that absorb or redirect ceiling reflections.

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