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Studio Isolation Tools

Mobile Absorptive eXpandable.
The MAX-Wall Mobile Acoustical Environment.
 
The patent-pending, interlocking Auralex MAX-Wall acoustic treatment system is made to grow and grow as your needs change... it can just go on and on and on, but only if you need it to. Don't buy more than your place requires... and don't bankrupt your pocketbook when a simple MAX-Wall system might be all you need! You want modular? MAX-Wall's your answer.
 
Mobile 
The MAX-Wall’s perfect if you’re renting a space and don’t want to-or aren’t allowed to - mount anything to your walls, or if your place needs to serve a variety of acoustical purposes. MAX-Wall offers you great flexibility in a big hurry. Our 831 Kit (shown here) can serve as an excellent mix position, and in just minutes can be reconfigured to serve as a triangular vocal booth, complete with window!
 
Absorptive 
The MAX-Wall is very absorptive, even at low frequencies. It offers great broadband absorption and is incredibly linear, with an overall NRC of 1.05! In our own use and testing, we’ve been amazed at its effectiveness. We ultimately concluded that you get great absorption because all sides of the MAX-Wall panels are exposed, thus doing double - duty.
 
The MAX-Wall’s proprietary, patent-pending design offers excellent broadband control of sound waves throughout your room AND in the near field, so now you can play, record or mix great music or vocal tracks ANYWHERE at ANY TIME!
 
The MAX-Wall panels are thick enough to yield a pretty high degree of sound containment, so a couple boxes of them can be used to set up - in a flash! - a temporary iso booth. Will it yield total sound isolation? Heck no. But it’ll give you enough containment so that you can lay down a clean new track in a hurry and likely not have to monitor on headphones.
 
eXpandable 
You can set up your MAX-Wall in minutes with no tools, no adhesive, no fuss. And you can add additional MAX-Wall acoustic panels as your needs grow. Start off with one of our kits and go from there. Build your own set-up with additional MAX-Wall 200s, 420s (one box) and other accessories.
 
The Complete Solution 
Add our Stand-Mounted LENRDs or Sunburst-360s to create your own perfect recording environment. For those needing their MAX-Walls to join at 90° angles, we have MAX-Wall CornerCouplers (included in the 1141 VB Kit; 12 - 20” sections per box).
 
The MAX-Wall mounts on our MAX-Stands™ that have an extension, allowing you to raise it to a height of 8 feet. You’ll also receive MAX-Clamps™ to place under the panels for added support.

Auralex MAX-Wall 831
8 MAX-Wall Acoustic Isolation Panels with 3 Stands and 1 Window Panel

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The Primacoustic FlexiBooth is a full size 24" x 48" wall-mounted acoustic cupboard that opens up to surround the voice talent and create a 16 cubic foot 'voice-over zone'. This eliminates room ambiance from the voice, thus allowing the engineer to add the required echo or reverb to best suit the performance in post production. <ul><li>Creates an instant vocal booth in any room</li><li>Full size 24"x48" design really works</li><li>Remarkably effective to control room ambiance</li><li>Easy to mount 'French-cleat' sets up in minutes</li><li>Choice of grey or beige acoustic panels</li></ul>From the outside, the FlexiBooth looks like a typical cupboard. It features an attractive black melamine finish that is easy to clean. Inside, ultra high performance 6lb per cubic foot fiberglass panels effectively absorb sound throughout the voice range. The acoustic panels are 100% encapsulated with micromesh and are covered in a tough yet attractive acoustically transparent fabric to enhance the fit and finish. The FlexiBooth performs double duty as a variable room ambiance device. Those that have recorded in large professional studios will be familiar with the variable acoustic panels that are often used to tailor the room acoustics. For instance, a brighter more ambient room is as generally preferred with acoustic instruments or darker ambiance for voice, electric guitars and so on. By positioning several FlexiBooths around the room, one can easily create different acoustic environments by simply opening or closing the FlexiBooth doors. To reduce freight costs, the FlexiBooth ships flat and assembles in minutes using common household tools. The Primacoustic FlexiBooth provides a simple yet highly effective solution for vocal recording that can adapt to any room.

Primacoustic Flexi-Booth - Black/Beige
Wall mount vocal booth, 24" x 48" x 6"

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Primacoustic Flexi-Booth - Black/Grey
Wall mount vocal booth, 24" x 48" x 6"

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The Primacoustic GoTrap is a combination studio gobo and bass trap that enhances the recording process by controlling spill between instruments while passively removing excessive bass from the room. <ul><li>Reduces spill between instruments</li><li>Full size 24"x36" design can be stacked</li><li>Easy to move & stack side-access handles</li><li>Baltic birch construction with dove tail joints</li><li>Choice of black, grey or beige acoustic panels</li></ul>It features fabric covered high-density 6-lb per cubic foot sound absorbing panels on both sides that effectively muffle the sound. This is augmented with an internal fiberboard 'spring' barrier that works double duty to both help contain sounds between instruments while enhancing bass absorption. By combining the acoustic panels and the internal barrier with the deep 8" internal cavity, bass absorption extends down to 75Hz. This makes the GoTrap an ideal studio device as it is always working to help control excessive bass (a common problem in small rooms) and it will be constantly used as a gobo to control spill from instruments when recording. Made from furniture grade multi-ply Baltic birch, the 24"x36" GoTrap is engineered with dove-tail joints to meet the demands of the professional studio and provide years of faithful service. This is particularly important when you consider that gobos tend to be tossed around or stacked to create walls. The convenient height also makes the G-Trap a perfect sitting bench for studio session players. Features include side access handles for easy handling and stacking, rubber feet to reduce wear & tear and comes in choice of three great looking colors. The GoTrap combines unmatched performance with great looks to deliver a studio gobo that will instantly make your recordings better! Once you get a GoTrap, you will never record without it!

Primacoustic GoTrap Studio GoBo and Bass Trap - Birch/Beige
Stackable studio gobo, 24" x 36" x 10". Assembly required. See product manual.

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Primacoustic GoTrap Studio GoBo and Bass Trap - Birch/Black
Stackable studio gobo, 24" x 36" x 10". Assembly required. See product manual.

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Primacoustic GoTrap Studio GoBo and Bass Trap - Birch/Grey
Stackable studio gobo, 24" x 36" x 10". Assembly required. See product manual.

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The RealTraps Portable Vocal Booth provides an elegant and affordable way to capture dry, clear sounding vocals, even in locations that are less than ideal acoustically.
 
This clever and light-weight device (11 pounds) mounts on any microphone boom stand to create a highly controlled environment for recording vocals and spoken narration in acoustically hostile spaces. Unlike other products that are too small to be effective enough in noisy or live environments, the RealTraps PVB is much larger comprising a pair of 2 by 2 foot absorbing panels joined with a hinge in a fully adjustable V shape. The integrated base attaches easily and securely to any inexpensive tripod microphone boom stand. The PVB can also be placed directly on a table or other flat surface.
 
Since the Real Traps Portable Vocal Booth is larger than competing products, it blocks unwanted sound and reduces room ambience much more effectively. As you sing or speak into the booth, it prevents your voice from getting out into the room in the first place. This is far more effective than trying to block room ambience and reflections after the fact.
 
The graphs below show the amount of isolation you can expect, and how the on-axis frequency response is affected. The photos show how we tested.
 
Available fabric colors are White, Wheat, Gray, and Black

Real Traps Portable Vocal Booth
Capture dry, clear sounding vocals, even in locations that are less than ideal acoustically.

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sE Electronics IRF 2 - Studio Kit
Five IRFs instrument reflection filters with flight case

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After three years and many poor imitations of our now industry standard design, we have gone back to the drawing board to produce what many budget-conscious customers have so desired... an entry-level Reflexion Filter product which actually does the job properly! Due to patents on our original design, competitors who have tried to emulate the success of the original RF Pro have not managed to do so successfuly since their designs are limited, and, as a result, so are their performances. The Project Studio RF or 'Baby Reflexion Filter' uses the same basic design as the Pro version, and while it can never be fully as effective as its more expensive big brother, it easily out-performs copies. The metal frame is lined with the same patented polyester fiberboard as the Pro version uses for its outer layer. This material has extremely good acoustic absorption properties; much better than simple foam products. This is then further lined with a high density 'crystal' foam with curved undulations rather the cheaper and less effective ribbed, medium-density foams that are widely used by other companies. The result is a product which looks fantastic and 'sounds' even better when recording vocals and acoustic guitars... the Project Studio Reflexion Filter is not a Reflexion Filter Pro, or strictly a 'baby reflexion filter' as it is approximately the same size but it's the second best reflection filter portable vocal booth on the market.

sE Electronics Project Studio Reflexion Filter
Reflection filter for project studios on a budget

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The SE Electronics Reflexion Filter is basically a portable device for recording live sound sources with reduced room ambience. It is an advanced composite wall which is positioned behind any microphone by means of a variable position stand clamp assembly which ships with the product. The main function is to help obtain a ‘dry’ vocal or instrument recording. This is especially useful in studios without proper acoustic treatment, but can also be used to help record takes in control rooms, where the performer also has to operate the recording device, or in rehearsal studios to reduce ambient noise. The Reflexion Filter has 6 main layers. Firstly, a strong layer of punched Aluminium which allows sound waves to pass through it, diffused, to a layer of absorptive wool. The sound waves then hit a layer of Aluminium foil which helps dissipate energy and break up the lower frequency wave-forms, and from here they hit an air space kept open by rods passing through the various layers. The air gap acts as an acoustic barrier. The sound waves then pass to a further layer of wool and then through an outer, punched, Aluminium wall which further serve to absorb then diffuse the remaining acoustic energy. The main absorber has 4 formed pieces of state-of-the-art specialist acoustic absorptive material attached to its face via the extended separation rods, which further serve to absorb and then diffuse the sound waves as they pass to the main filter. The stand assembly comprises a mic stand clamp fitting, which attaches by means of a vertical joint to the horizontal bar assembly onto which both the Reflexion Filter, and any standard fitting shock mount can be fixed. The microphone (in its shock mount) can then be moved both vertically and horizontally along the bar, and the Reflexion Filter itself can be moved vertically to obtain the optimum working position. How does it work? The various layers both absorb and diffuse the sound waves hitting them, so progressively less of the original source acoustic energy passes through each layer. This reduces the amount of energy hitting un-treated walls and other surfaces so there is less of the original source reflected back as unwanted room ambience to the mic. The Reflexion Filter also helps prevent any reflected sound reaching the back and sides of the mic. Its shape and size have been carefully tested to maximize absorption while keeping ‘coloration’ down to only around 1dB, and leaving the microphone’s polar pattern unaffected. The Results 'Independent test results from the Tongji University Audio Lab in Shanghai show audio image colouration with and without the sE Reflexion Filter. The tests (carried out by China's leading Acoustic Engineering University completely independently) clearly show extremely low levels of coloration when using a microphone with the Reflexion Filter while recording (20Hz to 20KHz). This was one of the greatest challenges in designing the RF. Other companies have now started to try and copy our designs (without breaking the patents which are what make the Reflexion Filter actually work!), but fail to achieve such good results because the designs are too simplistic. The RF comprises several layers of Aluminium and patented acoustic fibreboard separated by acoustically isolating air gaps... and therefore manages to remove large amounts of room ambience with a very compact design. The whole idea was to make the unit as effective as possible, but in the smallest space... otherwise what would be the point... you may as well treat a wall behind the mic. The shape of the RF is also critical to the design as it randomises any Reflections back from the surface of the filter. Products which are semicircular (without the flat diffuser panels the RF has) will concentrate any inconsistently reflected frequencies onto the mic... the worst possible scenario. Another very poor design though is a simple 'V' shape behind the mic. This creates one of the worst coloration problems you can manage to achieve when recording audio. Think about problems of Bass Accumulation in room corners... the bass is accentuated worst in 90 degree corners, so any baffle placed behind a mic which is this shape creates huge coloration problems in bass frequencies. This also adversely affects higher harmonic frequencies because of the massive energy in bass frequencies exciting these higher harmonics. A simple flat panel on a wall positioned behind the mic is a much better solution, as it does not create coloration, but still limits at least some of the early reflections in the room. All in all, it’s a very clever and desirable piece of kit. It allows you to record vocals, guitars etc with a ‘drier’ sound without having to have an acoustically treated room. It’s portable. It uses state of the art materials. It works… and it’s a fraction of the price of acoustically treating your studio environment!

sE Electronics Reflexion Filter Pro
Stand mountable, portable acoustic treatment.

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