Small Mastering Studio Build

[Dave Rose]

Was unhappy with the look before, so covered front two clouds, as they were hanging, with a single piece of fabric, and replaced rear one with purple

[Dave Rose]

Ok here's where I'm at so far. Still need to add air con, and decide whether to trap the rear door or diffuse...will do some test to see which is best. Will upload photo later, but the door is between the 2 large traps and suoerchunks on the rear wall, in the middle. With no treatment and using only a sine sweep, I was pretty impressed! 75 hz was a little null and a peak ay around 200. I placed a bale of 4 slabs rockwool in front of the door...and wow did this iron things out! Any thoughts on how you might go about tackling this would be great.

[Syncamorea]

Originally Posted by daverose

Ok here's where I'm at so far. Still need to add air con, and decide whether to trap the rear door or diffuse...will do some test to see which is best. Will upload photo later, but the door is between the 2 large traps and suoerchunks on the rear wall, in the middle. With no treatment and using only a sine sweep, I was pretty impressed! 75 hz was a little null and a peak ay around 200. I placed a bale of 4 slabs rockwool in front of the door...and wow did this iron things out! Any thoughts on how you might go about tackling this would be great.

In a similar situation, I have had success placing diffusion at ear level and absorption above and below. You can easily test that before committing to it.

[Dave Rose]

Originally Posted by Syncamorea

In a similar situation, I have had success placing diffusion at ear level and absorption above and below. You can easily test that before committing to it.

Relatively easily...although I would be building the diffuser myself so would still have to build it first before I test. I could see how diffusion at ear level and bass traps above and below could work....however I placed a big bale of Rockwool in front of the door yesterday and it didnt half iron out the peaks and nulls! The main audible ones are a null around 75Hz and a peak around 200 Hz, and the rockwool really did help here. Problem is my room is sounding pretty dead at the moment so don't want to completely kill it off. I haven't really heard of any diffusers that are very affective below 200hz though ...correct me if I'm wrong. Also been considering a diffuser on the door and building a movable bass trap that I just wheel in front of the door when I'm working (if I need one after diffuser is built that is)....what ya reckon?

[Syncamorea]

Originally Posted by daverose

Relatively easily...although I would be building the diffuser myself so would still have to build it first before I test. I could see how diffusion at ear level and bass traps above and below could work....however I placed a big bale of Rockwool in front of the door yesterday and it didnt half iron out the peaks and nulls! The main audible ones are a null around 75Hz and a peak around 200 Hz, and the rockwool really did help here. Problem is my room is sounding pretty dead at the moment so don't want to completely kill it off. I haven't really heard of any diffusers that are very affective below 200hz though ...correct me if I'm wrong. Also been considering a diffuser on the door and building a movable bass trap that I just wheel in front of the door when I'm working (if I need one after diffuser is built that is)....what ya reckon?

Sounds like a decent plan. If you feel the room is getting too dry, just replace part of your absorption with diffusion. Or even a reflective surface, just not at the main reflection points. I've been in mastering rooms that were on the dead/dry side because the owner felt it was more analytical of the recording itself. I think you'd have to have a separate reference room/system in order to stay calibrated.

[Dave Rose]

OK I've built the trap on wheels, its a bit of a beast....full of Rocksilk RS60, 4 layers thick (400mm) and about 1.8m high. Ran out of material so bottom is still exposed, will be covered in a band of purple material. Initial 'ear' tests using a sine sweep show its helped a lot, although by no means finished yet! Will post proper test results when I have them...got a few projects need finishing first!

[Dave Rose]

Finished movable trap. Just waiting for a new desk and air con before proper pics get taken. Please ignore all the old junk lying around!

[emery]

Hi m8, this is a really nice thread here. I am also moving to new place and need all that stuff done for my mastering room. I got a question about the inner wall covering with gypsum. I been in several mastering studios and saw that they just cover the rock wool layer with material, no gypsum on top and also not so many bass traps all other the room. Maybe the trapping was all covered with material. And maybe it depends on the size of room. Yours is 14 sq meters. Mine will be 5,26 x 5,81 meters, twice as big. And also do you use subwoofer?

Cheers
Denis
musicstudio.lt

[Gie-Sound]

Originally Posted by daverose

Finished movable trap. Just waiting for a new desk and air con before proper pics get taken. Please ignore all the old junk lying around!

cool!

[Dave Rose]

Originally Posted by emery

Hi m8, this is a really nice thread here. I am also moving to new place and need all that stuff done for my mastering room. I got a question about the inner wall covering with gypsum. I been in several mastering studios and saw that they just cover the rock wool layer with material, no gypsum on top and also not so many bass traps all other the room. Maybe the trapping was all covered with material. And maybe it depends on the size of room. Yours is 14 sq meters. Mine will be 5,26 x 5,81 meters, twice as big. And also do you use subwoofer?

Cheers
Denis
musicstudio.lt

Hi mate. Using bass traps allows me to move things around if needed, create deeper traps to control lower frequencies and allow for a little hard area to be exposed as I personally didnt want to completely kill off the room. Also, the inner layer of gypsum will also absorb some sound as well as reflect as it is allowed to vibrate. I think most studios will have the extra layer of gypsum, but then perhaps entirely cover a wall (such as the rear or front wall) in rockwool then cover with material, rather than not bother with the inner layer of gypsum. With a bigger studio like yours I think this could work well as you can afford to lose the space....so still use a layer of gypsum on the inside of the inner wall, then add more rockwool and cover. Completely depnds on your room dimension and what is required of course. As I am quite limited with space this wasnt really an option for me, using large bass traps to treat first reflection points and the rear wall seems to work best in this case.

[Dave Rose]

Originally Posted by Gie-Sound

cool!

Cheers

[Dave Rose]

Completely neglected this thread, there some new pictures of the site at http://www.platinum-mastering.com, the attachments thing isnt working at the moment, will try again later.

[Dave Rose]

ok think it's working....

[duff_bdg]

Very useful thread, thanks thumbsup thumbsup thumbsup

[lu432]

Great looking room I hope it sounds well :D Thanks for a look into your studio build out, thoroughly enjoyed it.

[SCDBM]

Really nice! congrats!

[Dave Rose]

Cheers....it sounds great, needed quite a bit of tweaking and some more bass traps adding but very happy with how it sounds. In total there are about 18 20cm deep bass traps, large ceiling cloud, super chunk corner traps, 2foot thick rear wall trapping and a 2 foot thick moveable trap on wheels. As you can imagine it sounds pretty dead, but was necessary because of the size of the room....had a think about it and diffusion wasn't really an option. Air conditioning is also much needed, although only switch it on when I'm not doing any listening (emails, album assembly, upload, lunch etc)

[lu432]

Good looking room man!

Cheers!

[Draytone]

This looks great. Similar to the vibe I am hoping to achieve for my room i'm currently building.

[Depressionman]

I love this minimalistic approach.Very nice.

[Ben F]

Originally Posted by Dave Rose

Hi mate. Using bass traps allows me to move things around if needed, create deeper traps to control lower frequencies and allow for a little hard area to be exposed as I personally didnt want to completely kill off the room. Also, the inner layer of gypsum will also absorb some sound as well as reflect as it is allowed to vibrate. I think most studios will have the extra layer of gypsum, but then perhaps entirely cover a wall (such as the rear or front wall) in rockwool then cover with material, rather than not bother with the inner layer of gypsum. With a bigger studio like yours I think this could work well as you can afford to lose the space....so still use a layer of gypsum on the inside of the inner wall, then add more rockwool and cover. Completely depnds on your room dimension and what is required of course. As I am quite limited with space this wasnt really an option for me, using large bass traps to treat first reflection points and the rear wall seems to work best in this case.

I think it definitely sounds better having the side walls as gypsum. I just went to a mastering room that was way too dead due to all walls being covered in fabric- sounded dead and depressing! No life to it.

[sineborg]

Looking good. Thanks for sharing your build.

[takman]

Originally Posted by Dave Rose

Patience Tresperros, good things come to

those who wait

LMAO....you posted at 11:37.....he posts at 11:38 asking for the photos, then you post them at 11:39

guess he didnt have to wait for long.

[Steab]

Cool studio you build there.

Where did you put the lights (and what lights were they) seen at the finished build photos?

[Dave Rose]

Ikea! Couple of adjustable industrial style lamps at the back and sides, adjustable spotlights in the middle and a lamp aimed upwards behind the desk at the front. Adjustable facing lights has proved useful for reducing glare on screen and lighting different areas of the room