General requirements and common errors -- Sound, decibels and hearing -- Sound isolation -- Room acoustics and means of control -- Designing neutral rooms -- Rooms with characteristic acoustics -- Variable acoustics -- Room combinations and operational considerations -- The studio environment -- Limitations to design predictions -- Loudspeakers in rooms -- Flattening the room response -- Control rooms -- The behaviour of multiple loudspeakers in rooms -- Studio monitoring: the principal objectives -- The non-environment control room -- The live-end, dead-end approach -- Response disturbances due to mixing consoles and studio furniture -- Objective measurement and subjective evaluations -- Studio monitoring systems -- Surround sound and control rooms -- Human factors -- A mobile control room -- Foldback -- Main supplies and earthing systems -- Analogue audio interfacing.