New Room - Layout Help Please.

[TheGetDown]

I'm going to be moving my gear into a new room, which is less than ideal, but it's all that I have to work with so I hope to make the best of it.

Ive attached a diagram to scale. As you can see I'm dealing with two celing heights, and the back corner of the room slopes down from 6' to the floor.

Any suggestions?

Right now I have (6) 2' x 4' x 2" deep auralex metro series panels, and I have access to some heavy curtains.

We'd like to build some kind of vocal booth, and were thinking of creating a simple PVC frame draped with a bunch of the curtains.

We are going to have a modest desk, a rack of equipment, a computer and nearfield monitors (KRK V8).

Thanks in advance!

[Ethan Winer]

Set up with your speakers at the left side of the drawing, facing toward the right. The goal is for the speakers to fire the long way down the room, and also for you to be centered left and right. More here:

How to set up a room

Then add as many corner bass traps as you can manage, plus absorption at the reflection points as described in the article above.

--Ethan

[TheGetDown]

Thanks for your reply, I know that it's advantageous to orient the speakers firing the long way of the room, however will it cause problems if each of my monitors is under a different ceiling height? FYI, where the blue shaded area hits the white shaded area, it is a step, not a gradual slope.

[Ethan Winer]

Originally Posted by TheGetDown

I know that it's advantageous to orient the speakers firing the long way of the room, however will it cause problems if each of my monitors is under a different ceiling height?

Lesser of two evils. Ideally you'd find another room. My reply assumes this is not an option.

--Ethan

[TheGetDown]

so then should I be bass trapping the corner (in the ceiling) where the height changes?

[Ethan Winer]

Originally Posted by TheGetDown

so then should I be bass trapping the corner (in the ceiling) where the height changes?

Small corners matter much less than outer, main corners. If the ceiling change is only a foot or so I doubt much bass collects there.

--Ethan