Recording at home and not getting the right mix in your projects? A good first step is to acoustically treat your room. Primacoustic offers the London Room Kits, a complete recording studio in a box and includes easy-mount hardware and screws. The Primacoustic London Room Kits allow you to get your room acoustically under control. The London 12 kit follows a variant of the live-end, dead-end concept referred to as LEDE. The intent of an LEDE layout is to help you to produce tonally balanced recordings that translate well on playback equipment outside your studio. The room is divided into “front” and “rear” sections and includes a well-defined listening area or “sweet spot”. The front half of the room (where the monitors are generally located) has the most amount of acoustic material applied in order to absorb primary reflections before they reflect into the mix position. This allows the engineer to hear a high ratio of direct sound from the monitors with less interference from room reflections. The rear section of a LEDE designed room employs acoustic diffusers that break up the sound energy and reflect it back into the room in random directions to create diffuse room reverberation. The rear wall treatment provides a sense of space and ambience while eliminating standing waves between the front and rear walls.
  1. DIRECT SOUND WAVES FROM MONITORS - Direct sound waves arrive at the sweet spot without reflecting off of room surfaces.
  2. PRIMARY REFLECTIONS - Off-axis sound waves from the monitors reflect off the side walls and into the sweet spot. These reflections combine with the direct sound and cause phase cancellations. Control Columns reduce the amplitude of side primary reflections.
  3. SECONDARY REFLECTIONS - These result from reflections bouncing off of two or more room surfaces and eventually fall-off into room reverb. If left untreated they can create chatter echo where several distinct repeats are heard instead of a smooth reverb tail.
  4. SOFT DIFFUSION - This helps break up reflections returning from the rear wall controlling standing waves while maintaining a natural room ambience.
  5. BASS TRAPS - Low frequency energy wraps around objects and is guided into the corners by the room boundaries. The corner mounted Broadband panels absorb bass in the corners and deaden the front wall to control primary reflections and standing waves between the front and back walls.
  6. FLUTTER ECHOES - These result from sound waves bouncing back and forth between parallel walls across the sweet spot. Control Columns on the sides and front walls eliminate flutter echoes and control standing waves that set up across the sweet spot.
The Primacoustic London 12 Kits are available in grey, beige or black. The neutral tones will look great in any studio and can match your style, whatever it is. Check out our online product listings to learn more.