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	<title>sounding off &#187; Auditorium</title>
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		<title>A Tale of Two Halls</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently attended concerts at two out-of-state prestigious university level music schools, and from a noise control point of view, the auditoria couldn’t have been more different. While the room acoustics of both halls were superb, the background noise level in one was quite distracting.
At first, I thought the weather had taken a sudden turn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video Wall Design Considerations for Corporate Webcast Auditoriums</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Thelen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out of curiosity, we asked one of our current clients what made them pick Acoustics By Design to be their audio-video consultant for their corporate webcast auditorium project. We beat out several national AVL consulting firms to get the project, so what made the difference? Well, there were a list of reasons why ABD was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analog vs. Digital Sound Boards &#124; The Top 3 Factors</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hamilton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On practically every project we work on that has a significant sound system, we have a discussion with the stakeholders about whether the main mixing console should be an analog board or a digital board. In a nutshell, we can boil the discussion down to 3 main points… Price, Flexibility, and Ease of Use. Here&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HVAC Noise Is Intruding On My Listening</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 19:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being a noise engineer, I’m always on the “listen-out” for cases of poor building acoustics. I find that common offenders are noisy air handling (HVAC) systems. Frequently the public venues are restaurants, hotels and cinemas, and on occasion it’s a location most tragic, a performance space.
HVAC noise in a performance space distracts listeners and hinders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apples, Oranges, and Sharp Pencils</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Thelen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the world of sales idioms, you never want to compare “apples with oranges”, but you always want the salesperson to “sharpen their pencil.” You don’t want to compare two unlike things, but you do want to make sure you get the best possible price. So, in the world of audio-video design, how do you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unwanted Sound Effects</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 19:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago, a client invited me to a rehearsal in their highly reverberant space that ABD was hired to test and correct. I declined, as I already had plans to attend a play that evening at a different facility, and joked that during the performance I’d also be listening to sirens from the main [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kachur to Speak at Audio Engineering Society</title>
		<link>http://www.acousticsbydesign.com/acoustics-blog/mandy-kachur-audio-engineering-society.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Thelen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every audio engineer must have a thorough understanding room acoustics to effectively perform their job. Mandy Kachur, Senior Consultant at Acoustics By Design, will discuss the fundamentals of acoustics for both large and small spaces at an upcoming meeting of the Audio Engineering Society. The discussion will focus on room modes, sound absorption, sound reflection, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acoustics from the Ancient Amphitheatre to the Modern Arena</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenric Van Wyk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the days of the ancient Romans, crowds would gather by the thousands in the amphitheater to see a wide range of events: public ceremonies honoring brave soldiers, performances of dramatic presentations, or the gruesome games of the gladiators. Although the events were a visual extravaganza, the amphitheater and coliseum were also designed acoustically to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video Blog &#124; Grand Rapids Art Museum &#124; Project Profile</title>
		<link>http://www.acousticsbydesign.com/acoustics-blog/grand-rapids-art-museum-project-profile.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Thelen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
If you can&#8217;t see the video, CLICK HERE.
The Grand Rapids Art Museum has the honor of being the world’s first LEED Certified art museum. Achieving the LEED Gold level of certification means it’s designed with state of the art energy efficiency and environmental awareness. Low water use, natural day-lighting, and optimized acoustics give the building [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acoustics By Design Receives &#8220;Best of&#8221; Award for Acoustical Engineering</title>
		<link>http://www.acousticsbydesign.com/acoustics-blog/acoustical-engineering-award.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.acousticsbydesign.com/acoustics-blog/acoustical-engineering-award.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenric Van Wyk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.acousticsbydesign.com/acoustics-blog/?p=168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Acoustics By Design has been selected for a 2009 &#8220;Best of&#8221; Award in the Acoustical Engineering category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA). The &#8220;Best of Local Business&#8221; Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USCA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Speaker Shootout at High Noon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Thelen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Question: How do you assure your client that they are getting the best possible speakers for their Auditorium or Fine Arts Center? Answer: You hold a &#8220;speaker shootout&#8221;. Recently one of our clients was in this exact situation, so we did just that. We invited several manufacturers of line array speakers to show up, all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elbows vs. Sound Attenuators: Interchangeable?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is common belief that a series of elbows near an air handling unit (AHU) can accomplish the same insertion loss as a manufactured duct sound attenuator. It&#8217;s true that elbows are less expensive than sound attenuators, but what acoustical performance is really achieved with this &#8220;low cost&#8221; substitution?
Let&#8217;s compare the two designs. Using the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coordination for AVL Consultants and Project Teams</title>
		<link>http://www.acousticsbydesign.com/acoustics-blog/avl-coordination.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hamilton</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.acousticsbydesign.com/acoustics-blog/?p=90</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the toughest and most critical element of designing AVL systems for auditoriums is proper coordination with all the other teams. As audio-visual and theatrical lighting designers, we find ourselves being selected to join teams all throughout the process, from design development to construction administration to commissioning, and this can create a lot of challenges [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Absorbing Vs. Blocking Sound</title>
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		<comments>http://www.acousticsbydesign.com/acoustics-blog/absorbing-vs-blocking-sound.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time for another semester, and I tell my architecture students that if there&#8217;s one thing they learn in my acoustics class, it&#8217;s that porous absorbers do not block sound.  A porous sound absorber, by definition, has many tiny interconnected voids that sound travels through.  Fiberglass and open cell foam are examples.  The sound wave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Binaural Recording with a Dummy Head</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Thelen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past week, as we took acoustical measurements at the Calvin College Fine Arts Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a music teacher poked her head into the auditorium and asked if aliens had landed. &#8220;Well, not exactly&#8221;, I said. But I admitted that it did look and sound a lot like it. Binaural &#8220;dummy head&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perception Vs. Reality: What Our Ears Hear</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Thelen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Acoustic Measurement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems like everyone is talking about decibels these days: &#8220;5 dB of this&#8221; and &#8220;3 dB of that.&#8221; As acoustical consultants, we hear people using these metrics and often wonder to ourselves, &#8220;Do they really know what a decibel is?&#8221; Occasionally, someone is brave enough to ask the more important question, &#8220;Just how much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Auditorium Noise Isolation: You Gotta Keep Em’ Separated</title>
		<link>http://www.acousticsbydesign.com/acoustics-blog/auditorium-noise-isolation.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.acousticsbydesign.com/acoustics-blog/auditorium-noise-isolation.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenric Van Wyk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Auditorium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acoustic Consultant]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Noise]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mixing noise pollution with an intimate auditorium setting is almost always a bad idea, and as the song says, &#8220;You gotta keep em&#8217; separated.&#8221; There&#8217;s nothing like untimely noise pollution to ruin the flow of a good theatrical performance or vocal recital. For our purposes today, we will define &#8220;noise pollution&#8221; as any unwanted sound [...]]]></description>
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