MAK Acoustics

Live production

On the road.

Concerts, festivals, corporate events and album launches. We supply the system, the stage, the lighting and the truss, and we mix the show. In October 2024 we provided the sound system for Boiler Room in Mauritius, the largest system we have put into a single event. We are also a co-producer of MAMA JAZ, the Mauritian jazz festival that runs through the whole of April.

Flying the line array at dusk
Flying the line array at dusk
MAMA JAZ, Viv Larmoni edition
MAMA JAZ, Viv Larmoni edition

The crew

Before the doors open.

Most of the work happens before anyone arrives. Truss up, power checked, system tuned, and somebody at the desk until the last song.

Corporate and conference

Rooms full of people who came to listen.

Conferences, launches and award nights. Sound for the speeches, lighting for the room, screens driven from the desk, and a live stream when the audience is not all in the building.

Acoustic engineering

From bare hall to finished room.

Lycée des Mascareignes, 2020. We calculated the multipurpose hall, designed the treatment and rebuilt its acoustic environment and sound system. The materials arrived in the third week of February. The hall was complete by 10 March, under four weeks later.

The multipurpose hall before treatment, with insulation and framing stacked on the floor
Before · 19 February 2020
The finished hall, with timber lining at low level and absorber panels above
After · 8 March 2020
Crew fixing battens to the hall walls
01 · 20 FebBattens and mineral wool fixed to the walls.
Timber lining being installed around the hall
02 · 25 FebSlatted timber lining going up around the hall.
Scaffold at the stage end of the hall
03 · 6 MarScaffold at the stage end for the high-level panels.
The finished stage
04 · 10 MarThe stage, finished.

Measured before, measured after.

Every room is measured twice. Once empty, so the design starts from numbers rather than from the eye. Once finished, to confirm the reverberation time meets the target before we hand the room over.

Measurement equipment set up in an unfinished hall
Measuring a bare hall before design · March 2015
Measuring a finished hall from a laptop station
Measuring a finished hall on completion · September 2015

Industrial noise control.

A grinding mill, December 2019. Perforated absorber panels on the walls and baffles hung above the machinery, to bring down the noise level in the mill room.

Studios, offices and homes.

The same method at a smaller scale: broadcast and recording rooms, our own studio, and rooms in private homes.

Since 2014

Project schedule

Each of these was calculated before construction and verified on completion. Many smaller private acoustic projects are not listed.

2022MCB Saint JeanSite survey on a failing active sound cancelling system, plus acoustic design of the call centre floor.
2021Radio 1 studio, The DocksDesign and build of the broadcast studio, delivered with Kosi Expanda.
2020Lycée des MascareignesCalculation, design and rebuild of the multipurpose hall acoustic environment and its sound system.
2020Rockfield hall, Plaine des RochesReverberation calculation and acoustic design.
2019MCB RLB canteenCalculation, design, site follow up and commissioning.
2019LFL grinder millIndustrial soundproofing.
2017Bagatelle, Les Résidences Belle RiveImpact test and proposed soundproofing solution.
2016Église Universelle du Royaume de Dieu, CoromandelReverberation time calculation, design, site follow up and commissioning of the assembly hall.
2016PSC building, CurepipeCommissioning of the interview room.
2015Police Band auditorium, PhoenixCommissioning of the rehearsal auditorium.
2015GMD AtchiaCommissioning of the multipurpose hall.
2014Mauritius Institute of EducationDesign and build of the recording studio.
2014MGI SSSReverberation time modelling for the dance and music room.
2014Interior Solution, State Secondary SchoolsPrototype acoustic design for multipurpose halls, adopted across many SSS.

Since 2019, acoustic work has also been delivered through our branch with Kosi Expanda. References available on request.

Next step

Want the detail on one of these?

We can walk you through the measurements, the design decisions and the result on any project listed here.