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Gooch,
> Can anyone tell me if our room would benefit acoustically from removing all that panelling and extending the ceiling to its full 12 feet? Or would that make what is right now a pretty controlled, dead-ish sounding room, out of control? <
I'll offer an opposing opinion. Not that the others are wrong! But just to give you something else to consider and possibly experiment with.
The five inches of "pink insulation" are giving you some useful amount of bass trapping. Five inches is less than ideal, but it's location a few feet below the real ceiling above puts it in an ideal place. If this were my control room I'd leave the ceiling as it is, put another 12 inches of fluffy fiberglass above what's there now, then put better absorption at the first reflection points covering those ceiling tiles.
But you didn't say if this is also a control room. If it's a recording room only, I would consider removing the ceiling and putting absorption higher up at the real ceiling above as the others suggest. Since you have ceiling tiles, it shouldn't be too much work to remove them all just to see what happens. Don't even take them all the way down - just slide them around above the grid to stack them on top of each other 5 or 10 high or whatever. Then if the room becomes worse you can easily put them back.
--Ethan
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