This week, TALASKE acoustics consultant Evelyn Way tells us about her experiences listening with a post she calls:  Ears Are Not Enough (more…)

Byron takes the floor today to describe the importance of floors in acoustic design. (more…)

Like most of us, you occasionally speak with a microphone in front of an audience. And like most of us you’ve probably experienced problems with feedback and clarity in the sound system. (more…)

To a true music lover, there are few things more exciting than a live concert. A chance to hear your favorite band onstage amid hundreds, maybe thousands, of other fans is a truly incredible experience. (more…)

Imagine your office so quiet you can hear every conversation within 40 or 50 feet of your desk. Suppose you can hear the every footstep of the fellow who lives above you because your apartment is quiet, very quiet.
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What can rally a sales team to achieve its best monthly performance? Urge congregants to put down their hymnals and strengthen their connection to one another? Involve audiences in a concert? (more…)

As the legend goes, the Beatles quit playing live in 1966 because they could not hear themselves at their own concerts. The sounds from their screaming, record-attendance crowds were (more…)

It’s the big moment. You’re about to step up to the microphone. You’ve rehearsed. You feel ready, but butterflies creep in as your mind lingers to past experiences when the sound environment threw you off. (more…)

The famous opening line of Ella Wheeler Wilcox’ poem Solitude reads: Laugh, and the world laughs with you. It’s a lovely image of shared mirth, and it turns out to be surprisingly true. Psychologists from Le Bon to Freud to Turner & Killian have studied the collective behavior of crowds over the past two centuries. (more…)