Mastering room at abbey road studios....

[takman]

Regarding acoustics.....

whats going on there??

[Rod Gervais]

Originally Posted by takman

Regarding acoustics.....

whats going on there??

Look like a generic discussion form the people in the mastering department at Abbey Road - did you have a specific question or was this just some sort of a pop-quiz?

Rod

[ritelec]

Soffit with red bottom.??? One view (maybe room 1) seems done. one room (maybe room 2 ) looks like a coat of joint compound.

Thanks for asking Rod, I was also wondering.


Interesting, to maybe take the top of the speaker area to fill and lose the real-a-state there.
This has me thinking about a possibility in my room. Should I continue thinking in these lines. Or, with out the same type of volume(real-a-state) from the front and side walls, it would be futile?

Thinking of extending "fluffy" corner trap. At above speaker height, build out (poultry netting...fluff) the 5 or so feet from the walls up to the ceiling...

I've also found interest in the invisible alpha .................would that type of build have any effect built just above the speaker height (like a soffit from the wall, above the speakers, toward the listener, then up to the ceiling.

Thanks for letting me ramble.

[Jomox]

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[Steve Honest]

Originally Posted by takman

Regarding acoustics.....

whats going on there??

i dont suppose the acoustics matter much when mastering at abbey road , as the masters are so noisy
steve

[takman]

Originally Posted by Rod Gervais

Look like a generic discussion form the people in the mastering department at Abbey Road - did you have a specific question or was this just some sort of a pop-quiz?

Rod

From a visual standpoint, it doesnt look like it would have good acoustics.

looks can be deceiving, and i could be wrong of course.

but....

the large desk, the way the speakers are placed behind the desk. Windows at first reflection points. Small room. Bass trapping?....well that could be hidden.

Am i wrong rod?

[takman]

Originally Posted by Steve Honest

i dont suppose the acoustics matter much when mastering at abbey road , as the masters are so noisy
steve

lately i have read been reading a lot of negative comments about them. so you arent the only one....

[Rod Gervais]

Originally Posted by takman

From a visual standpoint, it doesnt look like it would have good acoustics.

looks can be deceiving, and i could be wrong of course.

but....

the large desk, the way the speakers are placed behind the desk. Windows at first reflection points. Small room. Bass trapping?....well that could be hidden.

Am i wrong rod?

It is extremely difficult to simply look at the surface of a finished room and determine anything about what is going on behind the surface - especially in this situation.....

For example - there are a series of shots in Iin the beginning) taken in the same room - left to right - where the right side does almost look like it's just badly taped unfinished drywall - yet the left side of the same room looks completely different...... so I have n idea if there is something funky going on because of lighting.

The same goes for "small room"....... and indeed for bass (or any other) room treatments - for example - in my rooms you generally cannot see any treatments (unless I do a cloud - which I occasionally do, although not all that often). Also, my control rooms are actually much MUCH larger (in general, given the available real estate) than anything you see with the finished product.

I do not know anything personally about these mastering rooms - and could find no info about them at their website - so I can make no statements other than what I have already made.

I would (however) point out something that I have said many times in the past - and that is that some very good things have come out of some very bad rooms - but do not know if that is the case here.

I would also point out that it is much more tedious to make something come out good in a bad room than it is to make the same thing come out good in a good room..........

I hope this helped,

Rod