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The award winning StudioTrap offers adjustable treble absorption & diffusion, 360 degree mid bass trapping, and variable height in one convenient package. Improve accuracy and ambience in your mixes and recordings by assembling the StudioTrap into AttackWall and QuickSoundField configurations. Get big studio sound in any sized room. The StudioTrap’s versatility and portability can create the same sonic environment in any room, anywhere. StudioTraps are used by renowned music producers, mixing engineers, and artists in the studio. Standing on a tripod, StudioTraps are adjustable from 4 feet to 6 feet tall. You can quickly modify the height and diffusion characteristics in order to create the exact sound space you need at that time.
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Art Noxon Awarded Patent for his next generation IsoThermal TubeTraps
Audiophiles & Recording Engineers have relied on the Award winning TubeTraps to get their room sound just right. The IsoThermal TubeTrap continues this tradition with our new patented technology by delivering twice the bass absorption power, a fully adjustable diffuser with dynamic broadband sound absorption and diffusion. As the acoustic workhorse for solving your room's sonic problems, the Isothermal TubeTrap offers extended bass absorption and treble range diffusion to help your room sound lively and tight. Isothermal TubeTraps are modular, self-contained, broadband acoustic absorber/diffusers that improve the quality of music playback. No tricky installation required. Simply place them in the corners of your listening room or studio, and they go to work—giving you a clean musical bassline, along with added high frequency ambient sparkle. Click the BUY NOW button below for immediate purchase of our Model-13x3 and Model-16x3 general use Isothermal TubeTraps. For 4 foot tall units, different diameters, and all other inquiries, please call us! -
So, you bought a new sub and were trying to reach the musical blue sky...but you ended up with the subwoofer blues. You thought maybe deep bass was supposed to sound this way: drab, sluggish and boring. You keep the volume turned down and the crossover set low so your sub can “support” the bottom end without drowning out the music. But... you know you can do better. It's time for a subwoofer stand! Now you can "raise" your subwoofer to its full performance potential! The SubTrap is more than a simple vibration isolation stand. In addition to isolation, it absorbs excess bass (the BAD bass) and decouples your subwoofer from room modes. Once you hear the difference, you’ll never go back! Only from ASC. Installation and integration could not be easier; just slip a SubTrap underneath your sub. You'll instantly improve sonic detail, changing “fuzzy” playback into a richly detailed picture by lowering the running noise floor of the room in the all-important low bass range. You'll hear musical bass lines you never knew existed! Utilizing our patented Isothermal technology to boost the low bass performance, the ASC SubTrap should be the foundation of your acoustic control plan. From there, build your musical experience with rich harmonics and a lush, immersive soundstage.
Applications:
- Home Theater
- Two-channel HiFi Listening
- Home Studio
- Professional Studio
- Live sound
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Work in Perfectly Clear Sonic Space
The AttackWall redefines world class mixing environments. It's a free standing workstation that consistently produces the most amazingly clear sonic space you'll ever work in. The AttackWall produces a reliable, repeatable, and accurate sonic space in which to track, mix, and master, regardless of room or speaker system.Applications
- Mixing
- Tracking
- Editing
- Mastering
- Beat Making
- Post Production
- Sound Design
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The QuickSoundField is a near field recording environment that allows you get the most sound, at the highest quality, into your mics. The QSF can transform the center of an ordinary untreated room into a lush recording space. It works great for all types of recordings, from tracking drums and vocals in wide open spaces to close miking guitar amps in close quarters. The QSF uses the principles of "sound fusion" to maximize the quality - and quantity - of sound reaching your mics. StudioTraps encircle the mic and talent create a recording space that is sonically decoupled from the room acoustics. Inside the QSF the sonic quality remains consistent from one setup to another without the need for studio notes. The talent is free to move around while recording and no one can hear the change in position. Most important is that what the talent hears inside the QSF is what they hear in the control room.
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ASC SoundPlanks are the perfect companion to ASC TubeTraps for complete control of the acoustics in your room. After the bass range is under control, the SoundPlanks further improve imaging and flutter echo without taking up any floor space. Install approximately 16" on center near early reflection points for optimal results. Install with less spacing for a more "dry" sound. SoundPlanks can be used in many applications:
- High-End Listening Rooms
- Recording/Mixing/Mastering Studios
- Offices
- Auditoriums
- Band Rooms
- Churches
- Day Care Facilities
- Gymnasiums
- Home Theaters
- Restaurants, Cafes & Coffee Shops
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If you do a lot of travel and don't want to leave your StudioTraps at home, consider picking up some StudioTrap travel bags. Contact us for details. Made in the USA.
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The Half Round TubeTrap Isothermal model is a versatile evolution of the TubeTrap, allowing the same sound-busting power of the TubeTrap to be wall or ceiling mounted. The unique and effective design of Half Round TubeTraps combine broadband absorption, diffusion, and directional control of sound reflections to reduce noise levels while maintaining room brightness and enhancing image resolution. This design approach results in compact and modular units that can be placed in patterns on walls, ceilings, and in corners of any room.
All Half Round TubeTraps are made with our Patented ISOTHERMAL technology
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A monitor speaker stand is a studio must. A typical monitor speaker on a stand is located about half way between the floor and the ceiling. The floor/ceiling bounce returns back to the monitor out of phase. This imposes a phase cancel effect on the speaker’s output; for example, the first cut is around 74 Hz for 8’ ceilings, causing the engineer to boost 74 Hz in the mix unnecessarily. The ASC MonitorStand "stack" upsets the vertical symmetry in the room and minimizes this negative acoustic feedback. The lower Trap (Base) absorbs bass, whereas the upper Trap (Top) stops short of the ceiling and vents bass. The combination eliminates the phase cancel effect and lets the engineer work in a linear environment. Whether part of an ASC ATTACK Wall system or in a stand-alone configuration, ASC MonitorStands give you more than just simple support for the physical placement of your monitoring system; it also dramatically improves the monitor and room accuracy. Works with nearly every monitor speaker made today, from a little Focal CMS65 to the large Genelec 8361 or Westlake BSSM12 -- and everything in between.
Applications
- Control Rooms
- Home Studios
- Mastering Suites
- Post Production Facilities
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QuarterRound TubeTraps (QRTTs) give you very high performance in a form-fitting package, custom designed to fit in the corner when space is at a premium. All QRTTs are built with our patented ISOTHERMAL technology, providing double the bass absorption as our Standard TubeTrap line. Like all ASC products, these are hand-built to order at our headquarters in Eugene, Oregon and are 100% USA made.
For pricing, select from the variant options below. Typical lead time is 3-4 weeks.
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ASC's CablePassThru cabinet is an engineered alternative to the standard interior cable pass-through available from most retailers. It is designed for running cables through an interior wall while maintaining sound isolation. The CablePassThru is specified by architects for scientific research laboratories, surgery complexes, testing facilities and classrooms where multiple rooms are cable interconnected with each other and a common computer room. Interior Applications:
- Recording Studios
- Home Theater
- Audiophile Listening Rooms
- Performance Stages
- Computer Centers
- Secure SCIF Rooms
- MRI/Control Room
- Operating/Control Room
- Clean/Control Room
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Reflection Control - with Style!
CinemaPanels reduce echo, reverberation, comb filtering, and flutter in your media room. Equally suited to Theater and HiFi use, CinemaPanels improve your room acoustics and decor at the same time! Pick up an 8-pack today for the following uses:- Improved dialogue clarity in Theater use
- Improved imaging via sidewall reflection control in HiFi use
- Reverberation control in band/rehearsal rooms - better distinction between instruments
- Praise band stage noise control in churches - hear the PA instead of the blurry stage sound
- Improved spaciousness via rear wall diffusion in Control/Mix room use
- Flutter echo control in studio live room recording - calm but not dead
- General reverberation control throughout the home - hear everything better!
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The ASC AcousticSoffit is a one-stop acoustic treatment that, in many cases, will be all you need. Hear the benefits of TubeTraps in the corners and SoundPlanks on the walls without consuming any floor or wall space. Your friends and family may not even know you installed acoustic devices! Applications - Room Types
- Home Theaters
- HiFi Listening - dedicated or multi-purpose
- Music/Jam Space
- Recording/Mixing
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The MatrixPanel, designed for use when your listening position is near a wall, softening the sonic reflection of the wall without deadening the sound.
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With the IsoWall System, you get walls & ceilings that reduce sound transmission by 20dB or greater compared to standard interior walls. That is more than quadruple the perceived sound volume reduction, which is what makes our wall system the highest available using standard single-stud construction. Internally, the walls are tempered to move with the air pressure of bass frequencies. Where a rigid wall would shudder at high volumes (similar to the distortion in an overdriven speaker) and raise the noise floor of the room considerably, an IsoWall will "bend" with the pressure and absorb the sub bass sound wave while allowing the bass waves to reverberate cleanly. Check out our:
- IsoWall Cost Calculator
- Review our Technical-Schematic-Drawing-Iso-Wall-application
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Retain the ambiance of hubbub, enhance the clarity of table top conversation and quiet intrusions from across the room. Perfect retrofit for restaurants and coffee shops, fellowship and activity halls, meeting and conference rooms and specialty rooms such as home theaters, museums, art galleries and the great room at home.
Turn plain sheetrock into cost-effective architectural acoustic ceilings
Create a sociable sonic landscape. Convert any room with a gypboard, wood or plaster ceiling into a class act, a room that looks beautiful and sounds even better, and yet, it's all so naturally comfortable, no one even notices. The ASC Coffered Ceiling system was developed to help rooms support multiple simultaneous conversations without over damping the ambiance. It's busy, busy, busy all around you and yet, it stays clear and calm where you are, no matter where you are. Every table is a good table. You are waiting tables and as you move from table to table, it's always busy out there, but the calm seems to follow where ever you go. Open spaces are louder than you realize, and our system helps retain the ambiance but also create intimacy. -
ASC's PanelTrap is a combination mid/treble absorber diffuser that also traps bass when mounted across a corner. It's a budget friendly basstrap that is easy to install and easy to look at. Equally suitable for recording studio, hifi, and home theater use, a full PanelTrap system can transform your room from an intolerable echo chamber to a pleasant space for work or play. Systems include mounting rails for flat or corner mounting. Units are 16" wide and typical length of each section is 60". Priced at approximately $40 per linear foot of coverage.
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High performance audio rooms are so quiet inside and so acoustically fast in response that as the music plays, sounds and tones come and go quickly. When a tone slightly shakes the floating wall, which happens to be the same frequency as the resonance of the supporting stud, the stud is stimulated onto movement.
Applications
- Soundproofing
- Acoustic Treatment
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Are you ready to see how your room stacks up? Download the MATT test and record it in your listening room or studio. Send this over to our engineers and we will analyze the test to help you better understand your room setup. $50.00 + $25.00 Per Additional Test (Recording)
Provide us with a recording of the MATT Test in your room and we'll take it from there.
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The ASC Acoustic Test Signal
To explore the musical intelligibility and the sonic image-ability of your audio system... Play the MATT test first over headphones and then in your room. You hear a scale of rapid tone bursts that any HiFi system should be able to reproduce. Your system could but it can't because the room keeps getting in the way. Then concentrate on the sound stage. It's a mono signal and the image should stay stage center, tight and focused, but it doesn't. This test is a rapid gated slow sine sweep. It demonstrates the musical clarity vs frequency of the HiFi system in your room. In some ranges of sound you will hear strong rapid dynamic sound level changes while in other ranges the tone bursts blur together in reverberant chaos. You can also hear the more familiar peaks and valleys of your room. Then play it again but this time close your eyes and concentrate on the sound stage of this perfectly mono signal. In some tone ranges the image stays put; stage center, small and tight, where it belongs. But the next tone range sees the image lose focus and fluff up into a ball of fog. And yet another sees the image up and wander off, flying around the sound stage like Peter Pan. The objective of performing the MATT test in your listening room is to determine where you might move your speakers, listening position, and/or where to add acoustic treatment to your room to obtain the highest quality sound possible from the components in your listening environment. How fast is your room? Most audiophiles know how loud they can play their room before it begins to break up. Even the speakers have a breakup threshold, above which we begin to hear cone breakup and box buzz. The MATT test is an easy way to ring out your room without risking doing damage to structure or gear due to sustained power at one frequency. At lower sound levels it checks out the room acoustic part of your listening experience, sorting out clear dynamic bandwidths from blurred bandwidths.
The MATT test CD ships to you for FREE and includes the Matt test CD and test instructions
Purchase the MATT Test CD or Download the MATT Test signal for free
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THIS IS A LEGACY PRODUCT & NO LONGER MANUFACTURED PLEASE CONTACT US FOR DETAILS
Initially conceived of as an ambience alignment tool for the front end and rear walls of high performance high power audio playback rooms, the Bastoni product line has expanded to include less expensive, small Bastoni panels and even smaller ones, sized to drop into acoustic tile ceiling T-bar grids or be flush mounted to walls. -
The PCAD (Poly Cylindrical Absorbing Diffusor) is a highly curved panel providing broadband absorption to reduce the "echo" in the room. These unique panels have the added benefit of treble reflectors distributed evenly throughout the panel. This is the perfect product for fine tuning your listening room, calming the room just enough without overly deadening the sound.
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CoolTraps come in sets of 16. The modular 12” x 12” size opens up nearly unlimited possibilities for use on walls and ceilings. ASC's CoolTrap is a basic “building block” for architects and interior designers concerned about the acoustic properties of their designs, the CoolTrap provides specular (softly scattered) treble diffusion from 250 Hz to 4 kHz, which gives smooth vocal range absorption.
Applications
- Hifi Rooms
- Home Theaters
- Commercial - Conference Rooms and Classrooms
- Pro Audio - Mixing and Recording Studios
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When the manufacturer can’t supply the hush kit you need, we can.
Acoustic Sciences Corporation also makes custom solutions to help reduce the noise any kind of high-noise air handler or cooling system. ASC will engineer an add-on unit designed to seamlessly fit your existing air intake and/or exhaust. High noise air handler situations, such as those found in the cooling systems for large electronic switching centers, can cause hearing loss for unprotected workers on site. Our goal is to reduce the noise level to OSHA acceptable levels or better. Row after row of electronic signal processing cabinets are usually cooled by vented updrafts from the air conditioning plenum under the floating floor, but not always. Hot spots in equipment cabinets get extra cooling from air flow booster fans and blowers which always makes unplanned-for noise. That’s when a custom run of Acoustic Sciences Corporation's matching noise baffles need to be designed, built and delivered. It’s a big team project, with their engineers, technicians and managers on one side and our in-house staff on the other. Typically our clients will ship or sometimes hand-deliver the blueprints and functioning parts of their noise making equipment. We also partner with a local group of talented specialty fabricators so we get the high quality metal fabrication and painting we need. The goals, along with the long list of constraints, are lined out by our client and we go to work. We measure the noise, and determine how it is made. We design and build models improving each one until it works as desired. We ship it to the client for further testing. After back and forth exchanges, and we all come to an agreement the production version of the baffle is designed. A sample is made and shipped. After it’s approved we fabricate the production run and deliver it. Our happy customers include many smaller manufacturers and a few big ones, such as: FAA commercial and military airport ASR-9 radar sites, FAA air route traffic control center ARTCC sites, Westinghouse radar equipment, Raytheon contracts, Harris Corp Voice Switcher Cabinets, Liebert Air Handlers and Power Conditioners, EMC Corp’s huge hard drive memory cabinets, and for Texas Instruments, we developed our smallest baffle, about 3/8ths inch square, mounted to the flying head of their last heavy duty impact printers. -
The ASC CeilingPanel is another acoustic building block for creative architects and designers that are concerned with large room acoustic control. The science behind the CeilingPanel is simple: control of directional noise by creating an acoustic speed bump.
Applications
- Restaurants
- Auditoriums
- Band Rooms
- Churches
- Day Care Facilities
- Gymnasiums
- Home Theaters
- Studios
- High-End Listening Rooms
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Create an instant home theater and make your sounds come alive! ASC now offers instant home theater acoustics with the CinemaPillar. Finally a serious acoustic absorber, yet with classy designer looks and it's totally portable!
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Designing Your Hifi Room
We've designed and treated rooms for 30 years all over the world and have learned there are only a few key things we need in order to begin the assessment of your room acoustics.It's not necessary for us to physically be in your room to see what we're dealing with. If you can adequately describe your room and the problems you are trying to solve, we can help. -
Professional Recording In-Line Mufflers
Recording studios and rooms with quiet requirements need dampened HVAC supply and return ducting. ASC designs and manufactures in-line mufflers, noise-reducing outlet diffusers, and duct baffle inserts. Most residential and commercial HVAC equipment creates too much noise for use in recording studios. We build specialty mufflers that combine built-in bass traps with standard treble range absorbing panels. Our solutions not only deliver air into rooms silently but also reduce the acoustic crosstalk between rooms through the HVAC ducts. -
If you have outdoor compressors, transformers or HVAC equipment in close proximity to residential areas, odds are good that you need an ASC SoundFence. There are many types of noise barriers available, but none of them absorb noise like the SoundFence. They also share a common theme: high cost. The SoundFence gets the job done better while costing a fraction of comparable barrier systems.
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ASC designs and manufactures in-line mufflers, noise-reducing outlet diffusers, and duct baffles inserts. Most residential and commercial HVAC equipment creates too much noise for use in recording studios. We build specialty mufflers that combine built-in bass traps with standard treble range absorbing panels.
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The IsoTile Ceiling Panel is designed to isolate and absorb ceiling transmitted noise in both directions. Just drop in place on top of your existing acoustic ceiling tiles. ASC’s IsoTile is engineered to block and absorb sound.
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MixClouds offer studios the broadband acoustic control and noise reduction they need to control flutter while mixing tracks. This is more than an easy to hang flat panel product. ASC includes the MixCloud as part of an overall custom acoustic plan for your studio, so there’s no guesswork.
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The MixStation is Great For
- Recording Studios
- Mix-Down Rooms
- Post Production Suites
- A/V Work Rooms
- Project Studios
- Home Studios
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Our original Bastoni was designed by a very talented Italian trained furniture designer who worked in coordiniation with ASC President, Arthur Noxon. We introduced the Bastoni at the HIFI 96 audiophile show in the John Jacob Astor Salon at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in NYC.
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Ever wish you could record a kick drum track as hard hitting as Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean? Your dream is about to come true. ASC and Bruce Swedien have joined forces to recreate the original kick drum cover used for Billie Jean. ASC and Bruce Swedien have joined forces to recreate the original kick drum cover used for Billie Jean. Recorded in 1982, Billie Jean is considered to be one of the most revolutionary songs in history. And now, decades later, the secret was finally revealed.
#18 out of the 20 best drum sounds of all time
Because of what Bruce came up with, the sound that was created was recently voted #18 out of the 20 best drum sounds of all time! Here is an excerpt:#18. Billie Jean: Michael Jackson (1983) from the album “Thriller” Whilst other artists in the early 80s seemed to be going bigger, flashier, more processed and more extravagant with their drum sound, for an artist to release something so natural and minimal was a real gamble. Producer Quincy Jones wanted to cut the 29-second introduction (which was the longest one ever created at the time) and yet it is undoubtedly the drum sound that has since gone on to define the record, and all within the first few beats. Jones had earlier instructed engineer Bruce Swedien to create a drum sound no one had heard before. Read full article here