RESONANT PANELS

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INTRODUCTION:
• The acoustics of a room need to be designed to meet the
purpose of the room.

• In a church or a theater the sound needs to project into the

room.

• In the recording room the acoustics may be designed to

"enhance" the sound of the recording and in control room the
acoustics need to very controlled and predictable so the
engineer, producer, and musicians can trust what they are
hearing in the monitors
• A control room needs to have balanced acoustics, meaning a
proper balanced absorption of the frequencies and reflections are
well controlled and diffused.

• If all the walls are covered with foam the room will sound boomy,
and the mixes will have too much high frequencies and little bass
out in the real world.

• The other extreme would be a room with too much bass

absorption, causing the mixes to sound muddy outside of the
studio.

• A control room should have only a little less reverb time than the
average living room. Do not over do it. A completely dead room is
not the real world and it will make it very difficult to get a good
mix.
RESONANT PANELS:
• A resonant panel or diaphragmatic absorber is used to absorb low
frequencies. They work by vibrating at these low frequencies and
turning the sound energy into heat.

• The drywall in wall construction acts as a resonant panel and

absorbs a considerable amount of bass.

• If you a ever been in a empty masonry or concrete room you might

have noticed the amount of bass build up when you try to talk in
the room. Compare that to an empty room in the average house
with sheetrock walls there will be some reverb but the bass build
up like in the concrete room.

• When you calculate the acoustic absorption of the room remember

to account for the bass absorption of the drywall.
• Resonate absorbers are the most powerful of low frequency absorption
technologies. Resonant absorbers are different than other absorbers.
They work best in areas of high room sound pressure.
SOUND PRESSURE:
• When sound pressure strikes the surface of a membrane or
diaphragmatic absorber, it sets the membrane or diaphragm into
motion.

• The membrane sympathetically vibrates or moves over a

particular frequency response range which is determined by the
mass (cabinet) and the air or “spring” inside the cabinet.

• This vibrational energy pushes air through the internal cabinet fill
material and creates air velocity or molecular movement so the
internal absorbing material can do its job.
• If you take the face or diaphragm of the unit and add an open celled
acoustic foam, you can achieve low, middle, and high frequency
absorption all in one unit. Diaphragmatic absorption rates are levels
are much easier to design for then Helmholtz resonators.
 EASY TO POSITION:
• Diaphragmatic absorbers are easy to position.

• They work best in areas of high pressure within your

room.

• These areas of high low frequency pressure and low

air velocity are usually found where two room
boundary surfaces meet.

• Wall to floor intersections along with ceiling to wall

intersections are places where sound pressure is
greatest.

• The corners of rooms where 3 room boundary

surfaces intersect all also good places. Diaphragmatic Absorption
Behind Monitor
• Even though they are the most powerful, low
frequency, sound absorbing of all the technologies,
you will still require numerous units to achieve
manageable results.