OLD style studio articles.

At least i find these articles very interesting and perhaps you will to? http://pages.ripco.net/~chisholm/rsdp/INDEX.HTM Regards Toby

Interesting? They are classics! Malcolm was giant in studio design. You will find several references to his work here if do a search. Andre

Thanks, i did not know that, i will do a search as i´m a big fan. /T

It has been bugging me. waht do you consider OLD about Malcolm's papers and work? Studio design is an evoltuionary process, not revollutionary these days. Tehre is a studio designed by Malcom in the "Studios Udner Construction" section if you are wondereing how "old" his knowledge is. Adnre

I ceratainly agree that most of the acoustic/scientific rules discovered years ago still hold true today. But the use of the LEDE design has sort of fallen out of favor since surround formats have moved in to the industry. In just glancing over those archives, I'd say a lot had to do with the LEDE standard. Perhaps other folks see other things though.

I agree it´s not a good word to use, english is my second language so i do get lost for words now and then. Likewise there will never be anything "new" about how we ´hear´ acoustic spaces. What i do mean is atleast around here almost no one invest in live acoustic spaces. A lot of people spend loads of cash buying racks from floor to roof full of highend gear and yet they mainly record overdubs in small damped booths. Still really happy about stumbling across these articles, never read anything like it before. There are more people in the know but not many of them write. Regards / Toby

Thanks toby. Yur last post cleared it all up. :) By the way, forgive my ignorance, where is your home country? Your new friend; Andre

Hi, It´s Sweden. Sorry for being slow with my answer! Does anybody here know some acoustical facts about the "old" :wink: Motown, stax or cosmo rooms? All the best /Toby

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Hi, It´s Sweden. Sorry for being slow with my answer! Does anybody here know some acoustical facts about the "old" :wink: Motown, stax or cosmo rooms? All the best /Toby

Go over to gearsluts and prosoundweb and your will find BOB Olhsson posting regualarly. He was one of the Hitsville (Detroit Motown)) engineers. Like a heatwave; Andre

Malcolm helped design my studio. He was a great guy, and I felt honored to have had an internet friendship with him. One of these days I'll have to write an article on our conversations etc.. His ideas are based in experience, supported in theory, and much has evolved from the way he, and his generation, put spaces together and recorded. I abandoned LEDE, but used many of his ideas - he's the man! Best Dave

link is dead

When I first came on the web many years ago Malcolm, myself and Ethan were the only people promoting acoustics when everyone else was pushing gear - Malcolm had a very good site. cheers john

I exchanged emails briefly with Malcolm's son after his death; maybe he just didn't have the time/need to keep Malcolm's site up and running? I'm sure it's out there in HTML land somewhere - perhaps it should have a new home? Just a thought; I have allot of the articles saved. Best, Dave :wink:

My first post here....first of all, great forum, I'm gonna like it here! Malcolm's paper on control room design was one ofthe first acoustic references that I read that just bade sense. You could tell he had tons of practical experience in the field. He was the guy who got me thinking in terms of 'acoustic feet' (i.e. the total path length between direct sound and reflected sound). I hope that someone publishes his paper on a site somewhere because I think a lot of people just getting their feet we in considering acoustics would be well served by reading it. Sure LEDE has fallen out of favour, but the principle behind is still very much en-vogue. The whole idea behind the overwhelming majority of modern control room designs is that early reflections in the range of 0 to 20ms (from the receipt of direct sound) must be reduced. How this goal is accomplished becomes a matter of tase. LEDE aims to kill the early reflections with absorbtion. RFZ aims to re-direct the early reflections so that they are beyond the 20ms time window before they reach the listening posiition. Controlled image design strikes a balance between the two approaches with the use of strategically placed absorbtion and controlled wall splaying (check out the BBC library for more info on that). Other control room designs are less common...like a Moulton room (which embraces early reflections), or a Hidley 20Hz room (broadband absorbtion galore, reflective front, absorbtive rear). Nevertheless, I'd say most control rooms are design using the basic principles on which LEDE was founded. Malcolm Chisolm had a way of making the black magic of control room design more accessable to the average enthusiast. Like okay you want few reflections in a 20ms window, well if there is 10 feet of room from your listening position to the rear wall, then you're a long way towards your goal. I think re-releasing Malcolms papers in HTML would be great for the community. Cheers, Kris

First post here, StudioTips and this site are my two favorite places to learn new things. Regarding Malcolm's articles. I actually found this site a while ago with 6 really long, great articles written by "Malcolm". If this is the same guy or not, I don't know. But here's the link: http://www.micworks.com/freeinfo.htm -Owen

Thanks for the link - I don't think it's him though. Most of the suff in the articles appears to be stuff that came later than Malcolm like the rear wall 20msec idea etc. cheers john

http://malcolm.bignoisybug.com/ Have a listen to "class of 87" :wink: /Toby

Well, thanks! I´m in the process of building a live chamber, so a revisit to these articles is vital as i don´t find that many articles about chambers, mostly rumors without any hard facts & physics. /Toby