Acoustically Speaking

by Adam Buskard, Tofino

There has been a great amount of discussion in the community as to the poor acoustic properties of our community hall. It's unfortunate that what I see as a great space in a great location should seem undesirable due to a bunch of high frequencies bouncing around, for that is in fact the problem.

You see when a noise is made the energy of that noise travels out as a wave and is heard by our ears and then bounces around the hard surfaces of the hall over and over again adding to the original noise. So whether its 30 people having a meeting or a live band trying to play it always seems loud. These issues are found often in rooms like this that are designed to accommodate large groups of people. There's nothing wrong with the space itself, it just needs to be tuned up a bit. Kinda like putting extra memory on that new computer or for rednecks out there that's some bigger tires on that new truck.

I am going spearhead a project that will work with creative solutions to fix this problem, I have a plan and am looking for members of our community that are interested in getting involved. We will be looking to put together a work crew that will complete the job over a period of a few days. Email adam@tofinotime.com if this interests you.