Sean's advice is the best, although I have not visited the Rives Audio site. Hopefully it does not give out simple math answers, like the Cardas room ratios, as those are not sufficient to create a good room.
F. Alton Everest's book "The Master Handbook of Acoustics" is available from Old Colony Sound Labs and from PartsExpress.com. Also, Don Davis is a fine author. Both are in the reference section of any public library. Everest is the most comprehensive.
He shows you how to evaluate the room and how to build the right acoustic control devices, and select how the drywall is mounted, isolate the outside world, and vice versa.
Acoustics is easy to understand- just a fair amount to read/learn. Most professed acoustics designers have never tried to understand all of what is in the Everest book: like guys who got through school never really doing the homework for themselves, but just talk the talk. Read- you'll see. If they knew, then that book-knowledge would be readily apparent in their literature, showing you a much more profound way, like Sean indicates, to understand and control room acoustics.
Good luck!
Roy Johnson
Green Mountain Audio
F. Alton Everest's book "The Master Handbook of Acoustics" is available from Old Colony Sound Labs and from PartsExpress.com. Also, Don Davis is a fine author. Both are in the reference section of any public library. Everest is the most comprehensive.
He shows you how to evaluate the room and how to build the right acoustic control devices, and select how the drywall is mounted, isolate the outside world, and vice versa.
Acoustics is easy to understand- just a fair amount to read/learn. Most professed acoustics designers have never tried to understand all of what is in the Everest book: like guys who got through school never really doing the homework for themselves, but just talk the talk. Read- you'll see. If they knew, then that book-knowledge would be readily apparent in their literature, showing you a much more profound way, like Sean indicates, to understand and control room acoustics.
Good luck!
Roy Johnson
Green Mountain Audio