SonaVyx
Studio Design Solution

Studio & Room Acoustic
Design Tools

Measure your room, calculate the treatment you need, and verify the results — all from your phone. From first reflection analysis to bass trap placement, SonaVyx guides you from raw room to tuned studio.

Complete Studio Acoustics Toolkit

Everything you need to measure, design, and verify acoustic treatment for recording studios, control rooms, home theaters, and listening rooms.

Partner Integration

AcousPlan Integration

SonaVyx handles deploy-time measurement. AcousPlan handles design-time modeling. Together, they close the loop between acoustic design and real-world verification.

  • Import room geometry from AcousPlan models
  • Compare predicted RT60 vs measured RT60
  • Export measurement data back to AcousPlan for model calibration
  • Verify treatment effectiveness against design specifications
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SonaVyx
Measurement & Verification
AcousPlan
Design & Modeling
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Design RT60 (500 Hz)0.35s
Measured RT60 (500 Hz)0.38s
Deviation+0.03s (OK)

Studio Acoustic Design: From Measurement to Treatment

Acoustic treatment transforms a room from a sonically unpredictable space into a controlled listening environment where you can trust what you hear. Whether you are building a professional recording studio, a mixing control room, a mastering suite, a home theater, a podcast studio, or a critical listening room, the process always starts with understanding your room's current acoustic behavior. Room modes, flutter echoes, early reflections, and excessive reverberation all color the sound in ways that interfere with accurate monitoring and recording. The goal of acoustic treatment is to manage these phenomena — not eliminate them entirely, but control them so that the room supports the intended use. SonaVyx provides the measurement and analysis tools that make this process systematic rather than guesswork.

Understanding Your Room: The First Step

Every room has a unique acoustic fingerprint determined by its dimensions, proportions, construction materials, and contents. The room's impulse response captures this fingerprint in a single measurement — a time-domain snapshot that reveals the direct sound arrival, early reflections from walls, floor, and ceiling, and the late reverberant decay that determines how "live" or "dead" the room sounds. SonaVyx captures this impulse response using your smartphone microphone and analyzes it to extract actionable information. The RT60 reverberation time tells you how long sound takes to decay by 60 dB across frequency bands — typically 0.2 to 0.4 seconds is ideal for recording studios and control rooms, while home theaters benefit from slightly longer values of 0.3 to 0.5 seconds for a more immersive experience. Early reflection analysis identifies the specific surfaces producing the strongest reflections at the listening position, guiding absorber placement where it will have the most impact. Room mode analysis reveals the standing wave frequencies determined by the room's dimensions, informing bass trap design and placement.

The Treatment Calculator: Data-Driven Design

Once you understand your room's current acoustic behavior, SonaVyx's AI-powered treatment calculator recommends the optimal combination of absorption, diffusion, and bass trapping to achieve your target acoustic performance. The calculator uses the Sabine and Eyring equations to predict the effect of treatment on reverberation time, accounting for the frequency-dependent absorption coefficients of real materials. You specify your room dimensions, current construction (drywall, concrete, glass, etc.), target RT60 curve, and budget constraints. The calculator returns a specific treatment plan: how many square meters of broadband absorbers for first reflection points, how many bass traps for corners, where to place diffusers for the rear wall, and what material specifications to use. It supports products from major manufacturers including GIK Acoustics, Primacoustic, Vicoustic, and Auralex, as well as custom DIY builds using mineral wool or fiberglass insulation. Before you spend a dollar on materials, you can see the predicted RT60 curve overlaid on your target — making treatment decisions based on data, not intuition.

Before and After: Verifying Treatment Effectiveness

The real power of SonaVyx for studio design is the closed-loop workflow: measure before treatment, install treatment, measure after, compare. The before/after comparison overlays your pre-treatment and post-treatment RT60 curves, impulse responses, and frequency responses, with delta calculations showing exactly how much each octave band improved. This verification step is critical because acoustic treatment rarely performs exactly as predicted — room geometry, mounting methods, material variations, and furniture all affect the real-world result. If a particular frequency band is still out of specification after the first round of treatment, the treatment calculator updates its recommendations based on the new measurements, guiding you toward the remaining adjustments. This iterative measure-treat-verify approach consistently delivers better acoustic results than the traditional approach of installing treatment based on rules of thumb and hoping for the best.

From Design to Reality: The AcousPlan Connection

For professionals who use acoustic modeling software during the design phase, SonaVyx integrates with AcousPlan to bridge the gap between prediction and measurement. AcousPlan handles design-time room acoustic modeling — predicting RT60, clarity indices, and speech intelligibility from room geometry and material specifications before construction begins. SonaVyx handles deploy-time measurement — capturing the actual acoustic performance of the completed space. By comparing AcousPlan's predicted values with SonaVyx's measured values, acoustic designers can calibrate their models against real-world data, improving the accuracy of future designs. This feedback loop is particularly valuable for acoustic consultancies that design multiple studios, theaters, or performance spaces and want to continuously refine their modeling methodology. The integration also enables rapid commissioning verification: if the measured RT60 falls within the tolerance band predicted by the AcousPlan model, the room passes commissioning; if not, the deviation data guides targeted remediation.

Who Uses SonaVyx for Studio Design?

SonaVyx serves everyone from home studio builders to professional acoustic consultants. Home studio owners use the platform to make informed treatment decisions without hiring a consultant — measuring their room, getting AI-powered treatment recommendations, and verifying the results. Professional studio designers use SonaVyx as a rapid measurement tool during site surveys and commissioning visits, complementing their full measurement rigs with a phone-based system that is always available. Acoustic consultants designing control rooms, mastering suites, and broadcast facilities use the AcousPlan integration to close the loop between design prediction and measured reality. Home theater enthusiasts use the RT60 and room scan tools to optimize their rooms for immersive audio, targeting the slightly longer reverberation times that create spaciousness without compromising dialogue clarity. Podcast studios and voiceover booths use the platform to achieve the very low RT60 values (under 0.3 seconds) and strong early reflection control needed for clean, professional voice recording.

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Measure your room's acoustics, get AI-powered treatment recommendations, and verify the results. From raw room to tuned studio in a weekend.