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| Making a Terrible room work acoustically speaking
Guys, I finally got hold of a tape measure. I'm in a room that's 8'6"x10'9" with an 8 ft ceilings. The door is at one of the back corners so I dont have access to putting a panel in that corner. Thus far I have (what I could save from New ORleans) 6 4" pieces of 703, and 6, 2" pieces of 703 I'm thinking of placing 4" panels from floor corner to ceiling in 3 corners with a small piece of 4" (2x2" panels covered in GOM) over the door corner. I'm thinking 2 2" panels at each of the side walls and 2 on the ceiling. Beyond this I'm at a loss for ideas and welcome whatever comments you guys have |
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Will you be tracking or monitoring in this room...or both?
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I didnt frame them. I left the wood in New Orleans, Here I just covered them in GOM and for the corners they jammed in with no problem 1 panel atop another. For the side panels I'm gonna use INdustrial strength velcro.
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SSL, All of that sounds very good, but ... > The door is at one of the back corners so I dont have access to putting a panel in that corner. < All rectangular rooms have 12 corners, not counting the tri-corners where two walls meet the ceiling or floor. In a room that size and shape you need as much bass trapping as possible. So besides your three wall-wall corners, putting more traps in all four wall-ceiling corners is recomended, and even treating one or more of the wall-floor corners - panels sideways on the floor leaning against the walls - would not be too much. > Beyond this I'm at a loss for ideas < See my Acoustics FAQ for many more ideas: www.ethanwiner.com/acoustics.html --Ethan
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This thread is called "Making a Terrible room work acoustically speaking which is akin to making a homely woman into a spokesmodel... you can fix what you can with spakle and paint... but unless you get into some fairly major [and expensive] surgery she's just not going to be Jillian Barberie. Same with a room. You can put band-aids on a shitty room to try to get something out of it but the fact of the matter is that it will continue to be a shitty room unless you do some fairly major [and expensive] construction.
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Fletcher, > You can put band-aids on a shitty room to try to get something out of it but the fact of the matter is that it will continue to be a shitty room unless you do some fairly major [and expensive] construction. < Sometimes, but not always. It depends a lot on how bad the room is to start with. Unfortunately, most people don't have the luxury of designing a new room from scratch, and must work with what they have. We treated Charles Dye's home studio to his satisfaction, and it's a pretty small room. Likewise for Nile Rodgers' awkward space in his home. Are these rooms now as good as the control room in Avatar's Studio A? Of course not. But they are now very workable, compared to before treatment when they were unusable. --Ethan |
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