After having my little studio for close to ten years I decided it was time to take the control room acustic up a notch. I'm close to move out from here (
probably within 1 year and a half) but wanted to have a better place to work in and there are some major problems in the low end area that I've always wanted to cure one way or the other. Right now the studio is no longer commercial, just a private room for my band and a few friends I like to record now and then, so the downtime won't kill me.
Anyway, there used to be (
untill last night) a flawed acustic treatment in some spot (
a couple corner trap, an absorbent front wall and a cloud over mixer) but the sound was nowhere near to satisfaction. The biggest problem are the two windows on both sides of the mixer (
one facing into the tracking room, the other looking outside). I decided to create some sort of RFZ (
Reflection Free Zone) by building two side wall panels with slots as per
John Sayer's drawings. There will be a new front wall (
from floor to ceiling this time instead of topping at 8'/240cm) and I have yet to decide if I'll flush mount the speakers (
JBL LSR28p) or not, a couple corner traps (
bigger than the old one and again from floor to ceiling) and new clouds (
with recessed lights) all over the ceiling. I plan to keep the hardwood floor bare instead of having carpets around.
The room is 16'/482cm long, with splayed walls, 12' 5"/ 373cm front wall, 14'/420cm back wall and 9'/270cm ceiling. All walls (
and ceiling) are made of concrete (very reflective) and the empty room sounds like ass.
So, here are a few pictures to start the thread off. This is one of the side panel (
already put both in place). The rear corner traps structure is done, just need to fill it with wool and finish them with cloth. The front wall will go up this afternoon (
or at least I hope so). You can still see the old front wall in one of the picture.
Any comments is more than welcome.