Looking at the Sound Egg Chair reminded us of some great retro images we saw from the 1979 construction of the anechoic chamber that McIntosh Laboratories used for testing their audio equipment.
Awesome Anechoic Chamber: McIntosh Laboratories, 1979
Anechoic chambers are large rooms that are built so that there are no echoes or reverberation. Being an audio and DIY nerd I not only loved looking at the images, but also enjoyed reading the story on the construction of this chamber.
For those working with sound, have you ever been inspired to create something like this for your home?
[ via Arkitip Intel ]
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No reverb is termed "dead" in sound engineering, in context of rooms. It's good for recording if all reverb will be added after tracking, but otherwise undesirable. Before digital production became really popular the best studios built tracking rooms to have a pleasing amount of reverb, depending on what instruments were being tracked, of course.
At home a dead room would be spooky. It's weird to hear yourself talk without any reverb at all. My bet is that no one would actually want that kind of thing in their home.
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