I need to re-build the floor\walls\etc what should i do?

[212121]

I live in a old house that needs to be re-built, sorry i don't know the right word in english, it's just a old place if i jump in my living room i will end up in the floor below me, etc... so i heard that flat walls are bad for acoustics, should i ask the people that are going to repair my walls and everything to make something not flat? irregular walls or something? is there anything i can do? what should i ask them?

thanks!

[bpape]

It's not so much flat as parallel. If you can get 1 inch per foot on each side for taper, that's good for a control room. The thing is, many times, you end up giving up a lot of space and cramping things to do that. If the other side of one wall can become a live room, then you don't lose so much space.

Not sure how far you want to go given it's your house.

Bryan

[212121]

Hi thanks for the reply


you mean the walls can't be parallel?

thanks!

[bpape]

No - that's reality and happens all the time. I was just commenting on your statement that walls shouldn't be flat. Any type of texturing you do to the walls to try to make them not flat is not really going to do much of anything except in the very very high frequencies - and then, hard saying what.

Diffusion is a science with very specific patterns of different widths and depths that are arranged in a certain sequency. Quite honestly, most of the time in most residential sized rooms, you really don't have space for absorbtion to work properly. Properly placed absorbtion (and lots of broadband absorbtion) is usually your best bet.

Bryan

[212121]

thanks mate!