Facilities: Studios and labs
We recently invested over £2.5 million in our world class facilities. They were opened by Dr Andy Bower, BBC Portfolio Manager, Digital TV. The range of studios and laboratories that we have available at Salford is very unusual for a UK University. These facilities are available for students, researchers and commercial clients.
- Recording studios - a set of four fully acoustically treated studios, each with its own live room.
- Anechoic chamber - a room with no echoes used to measure, for example, directionality of loudspeakers. Includes a virtual tour.
- Semi-anechoic chambers
- Reverberation chambers - rooms with little absorption, used to measure, for example, the absorption of concert hall seating. Includes a virtual tour.
- Transmission suite - two rooms used to measure how much sound goes through the walls of buildings
- Listening room - used to carry out subjective tests, for example on audio quality.
- Undergraduate laboratory - for electronics and acoustics, audio and video experiments.
- Project laboratory - containing specialist experimental equipment for final year, MSc and research projects.
- Audio suite - containing 40 PCs used for Midi and sound synthesis work.
- Video edit suite - containing digital video edit stations with HD capability and blue screen.
- Computer laboratories - a set of PC labs for teaching programming, web design and digital audio processing.
