Question for Ethan Winer: Your EQ Mag Room Design

[warhead]

Ethan, I was going to contact you privately about this but figured others would benefit from your replies. The following is an EQ mag article by yourself and Wes Lachot. It is a great room design that anybody with the space could build to this spec and have a great and useable control room.

http://www.overdublane.com/wes/datab...cgi?1106083441

Great. Love it. I just don't have 21' of depth to spare.

My question is: most people don't have that kind of DEPTH (21') to work with. In altering these plans (to say a max of 14') what DEPTH would you recommend. Also, would you change the angles at all, and placement of diffusors and bass trapping?

I'm in the middle of planning my garage build in, and I have 11' in width no problem. My plan was to build a 12' x 14' control room. So at this point I am curious to know if an altered version of this control room might make sense for me. I have 9' ceilings so I could build up a floor and drop down the ceiling build for the 8' suggested height you have here.

Overall I think it would be helpful to many folks if you could base a design on a standard bedroom type of depth as 21' just isn't realistic for most.

What would you think about commenting on this, and possibly re-releasing another version of this plan? It would help a lot of people!

War

[Chris]

Well damn, I already have a question about this, too. Why are the bass traps around the corners, but not across the corners?

[Ethan Winer]

War,

Originally Posted by warhead

I was going to contact you privately about this but figured others would benefit from your replies.

Had you emailed me that's exactly what I'd have told you.

My question is: most people don't have that kind of DEPTH (21') to work with. In altering these plans (to say a max of 14') what DEPTH would you recommend.

Actually, that's addressed in the article where the advice is to scale the dimensions. But in your case that would leave you with a very low ceiling, so it's better to pick a more appropriate ratio. Use my mode calculator program here:

www.realtraps.com/modecalc.htm

Or just look at the screen shot and you can read the eight "recommended" ratios off that.

Also, would you change the angles at all, and placement of diffusors and bass trapping?

Well, you can make any room sound good with enough treatment. If you have a small space to start with, I'd skip the angles because that just makes it smaller still.

I think it would be helpful to many folks if you could base a design on a standard bedroom type of depth as 21' just isn't realistic for most.

That was meant for a basement studio. Otherwise, just use my ModeCalc. Then again, most people who are using bedrooms don't have the luxury of building and moving walls anyway.

--Ethan