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November 26, 2006
Why is This Woman Smiling?
Team NoEvil
Kat Caverly is finally happy to announce that she has won her battle against the street noises
of Hell's Kitchen by installing a WhisperRoom in NoEvil's studio. Yes she has won the sound
isolation battle but the war for the cleanest sound quality has not yet been won.
Acoustics is all about blocking, isolating, and absorbing sound; getting things just the way
you want them to sound and in our case it is called a DRY sound. A make shift sound booth
created by grip stands and sound blankets created a really dry (dead) sound which was great,
but that offered little sound isolation and no sound blocking.
The WhisperRoom offers a great solution for sound isolation and a good bit of sound blocking,
but it isn't sound-proofing. And the surfaces are not very good at sound absorption, so you must
add acoustical foam. How much depends on how much you want to deaden the "reflection" of
sound and inthe case of voiceovers we wanted as much control as possible and a dry, dry
sound. So we are covering the walls, ceiling and even the windows with Auralex Studiofoam.
And we added a sound blanket to the floor.
To isolate the vocal artist and the microphone, we are using an Auralex GRAMMA as a platform,
and a SE Reflexion filter. It is all about the sound and achieving the sound the producer, director,
and sound designer are trying to create.
We added additional sound blankets around the studio; in front of the doors, behind the
engineer's workstation, covering windows, and rack of computers with their noisy hard drives.
All combined gives us an affordable control over our sound.
And that is why this woman is smiling!
Posted by photocartoonist at November 26, 2006 11:56 PM