BUT I’m far from the definition of hipster” is what my tagline reads on my both Tinder and Bumble profile. 

The topic of music, sound, noise, waves, and energy have always fascinated me ever since I realized the world is not what it seems to be. As I grew up, the answer to the usual “What do you want to be when you grow up?” question turned from firefighter to audio engineer. When it was time to start college, I choose to go to community college to get my basic classes out of the way then afterwards it would be time to pursue my musical education. That education started at Columbia College of Chicago (aka the hipster art school of Chicago) and after a few changes to my major, my path towards Associates in audio production turned to Bachelor of Science in acoustical engineering. This was my chance to take my passion farther than I ever thought possible, and with my almost superb math skills and technical knowledge this dream was attainable! 

BUT this dream of becoming an acoustical engineer slowly shifted from the forefront of my thinking to the back of my mind and the only thing I really concentrated on was surviving city living, passing my classes, making sure my bank account didn’t go negative, and keeping my pain in the ass professors happy all while working part-time at a dead end job. Towards the end, I realized that Columbia College didn’t really know how to get me into my dream career and all entry-level positions in my field required Masters level education. I wasn’t down to spend another four years in some hell-hole of an institution being unhappy with life. So graduation happened then I moved back home where I worked another part-time dead end job unrelated to my field.

A year later, I desperately tried to get into an acoustical engineering job because I was tried of letting my degree just sit in the corner gathering dust. After painstakingly sending out resumes and cover letter I finally found my calling. It was my time to shine and show the world what I got!  That was my thinking until I found out that my boss was into some shady stuff and decided that I wasn’t going to be involved with that. After that I found a good paying temporary construction job,  tried freelancing for a year and finally found the job that I’m at today: working as a warehouse tech in an audiovisual warehouse. 

Truthfully, I’m starting to get sick of not being considered an acoustician after so long. Now I’m as passionate or more passionate about this career field than I was when I changed my major at Columbia College. Just writing this makes me passionate about it. I don’t want to go to that place that I was during and after college. I am smart! I can do this! I deserve more! No more second-rate shit! Let’s go!

Hello world! I’m an Acoustician!  

Here are a few tips when designing a conference room:

  Location: Conference rooms should be located in low traffic areas for privacy and to minimize disturbances.

Noise:Yes noise. Consider the noise outside the room as well as inside. Noise may stem from; people, furniture or appliances. The trick is, Soundproofing, Sound Masking or Speech Privacy Solutions to protect privacy, maintain…

People who need to work with sound even at the least proportion know how important it is to keep the acoustics of a room into consideration, especially when the room is used as the work-floor for a large group of people. Acoustics is one property which decides in which manner sound transmits in the whole area. There are certain rules following which can help you get the perfect acoustics for the room where you want it.

Avoid Reflective Walls: Any glossy and polished surface in any part of the room can make sound waves reflect from them. Every professionals working with sound need specially treated room for working. Acoustics is a must for making the room worth working in. Not all the professionals have dedicated rooms treated with acoustic engineering. They often need to use a spare room in the basement to use it for working with music. In such cases, it is difficult to change the complete structure of the room. However, you can make tiny alterations to make the room usable. First you need to cover the polished hardwood floors with carpets. Then cover the glass panes with curtains or blinds. Because, glass reflects sound wave quite easily. If you think it is not possible for you to arrange for the proper coverage to avoid reflection, you can take the help of noise control in Saskatchewan.

Listening Position Matters: Positioning yourself just anywhere in the room can never help you exploiting the sound system inside the room properly. The speakers mounted at the back side of the room should be ten inches away from any hard surface. Same goes with the rear or side mounted woofers. If the shape of the room is oblong, you need to get the position in line with the longer area of the room.

Most interestingly a team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering has invented a one-way sound device for one way communication. To be more precise, the sound device creates one-way communication channel for sound, which allows a flow of sound wave from the sender to the receiver but not from the receiver to the sender. It is a nonreciprocal three-port device through which microwaves or radio signals can pass from one port to the next in a sequential way. It enables listeners to hear a sound. In this device sound is not to be heard in return. Nonreciprocal Acoustic Circulator never lets sound move to the opposite directions. In this advance device, signals or sound waves can flow from left to top, from right to left and from top to right, but never in reverse directions. This is the first-ever circulator for sound used to break acoustic waves which travel through air between two points in space.

By using this latest nonreciprocal acoustic circulatory, users can create one-way communication for the traveling in different directions through air. With this invention any user can hear a sound clearly and distinctly without worrying about any echoing sound (which is heard in return).

As soon as its introduction, many industries adapt it as a very good device for using in their sound and signal systems. Within a short time span people understood its utility aspects. Now it is extensively used in radars and other communication devices.