Post by tomeurs on Apr 11, 2016 9:07:03 GMT
Hello everybody,
Since I am moving out to a new studio space I’m busy with planning what to do about the acoustics for my new studio which will be mainly used for mixing. Before I just start buying and building all kinds of things I thought I ask you guys for some advice and if my plans make any sense to you. My questions are about acoustics, sound isolation is not important here.
I did a lot of reading on the Ethan Winer’s ‘Acoustic Treatment and Design for Recording Studios and Listening Rooms’ page and all other sorts of pages and forums to prepare myself. But some questions remain.
Here is some information about the new space:
- It’s roughly 7,3 meters long, 5 meters wide and 3,5 meters high (24’ x 16,5’ x 11’)
- The side and back walls are mostly brick, the front wall has a full width window bay about a meter from the ground, the ceiling is concrete about 70% covered with woodwool cement boards and the floor will be laminate flooring.
Here is a visual example of the empty room:
First of all the room ratios seem pretty positive. Height: 1.00, Width: 1.50, Length: 2.20. This is quite close to one of the ideal room ratios mentions on the Ethan Winer Page (H:1.00 x Width: 1.60 x L:2.33).
Since it is quite a large room I am wondering what kind of traps you would advise to build. Broadband absorbers or Ethans ‘tuned’ bass traps. I ran into Ethan Winer’s article of ‘building better bass traps’ on building and using ‘tuned’ traps and my room is about exactly on the stated limit of room dimensions (rooms larger than 25’x15’) for which he advises to build these ‘tuned traps’. Since I really liked these designs I was thinking of placing them all around the room like this:
I placed Deep bass traps in the back corners, and the rest in alternating frequency order (also alternating the placement on opposing walls so that they are not facing each other). these traps will be 2’ wide and 6,5’ high.
Would that make any sense to start off with or should I follow the standard advise of basstrapping every corner first? Since it is a pretty large room trapping all the corners is going to be a pretty intensive job. Are bass problems in such a long room as evident as in a small room?
For creating a RFZ i have some build panels left:
- 4 times: 3’ x 2’ x 2” rigid rock wool panels.
- 4 times: 3’ x 2’ x 8” rigid rock wool panels.
- 2 times: 6’ x 2’ x 8” rigid rock wool broadband absorbers.
These panels I thought of using to create a RFZ. Do you think I should use the 2” thick ones on the side walls and the 8” thick ones on the ceiling or the other way around? I thought of placing the large 6’ x 2’ x 8” absorbers in the corners in front of the room to act as bass traps.
I hope I have provided you with enough information to give me some advise where to start off. I’m really curious about your advise. If I didn’t provide you enough info please let me know and I’ll try to explain it. Thanks in advance!
Greets Tom.
Since I am moving out to a new studio space I’m busy with planning what to do about the acoustics for my new studio which will be mainly used for mixing. Before I just start buying and building all kinds of things I thought I ask you guys for some advice and if my plans make any sense to you. My questions are about acoustics, sound isolation is not important here.
I did a lot of reading on the Ethan Winer’s ‘Acoustic Treatment and Design for Recording Studios and Listening Rooms’ page and all other sorts of pages and forums to prepare myself. But some questions remain.
Here is some information about the new space:
- It’s roughly 7,3 meters long, 5 meters wide and 3,5 meters high (24’ x 16,5’ x 11’)
- The side and back walls are mostly brick, the front wall has a full width window bay about a meter from the ground, the ceiling is concrete about 70% covered with woodwool cement boards and the floor will be laminate flooring.
Here is a visual example of the empty room:
First of all the room ratios seem pretty positive. Height: 1.00, Width: 1.50, Length: 2.20. This is quite close to one of the ideal room ratios mentions on the Ethan Winer Page (H:1.00 x Width: 1.60 x L:2.33).
Since it is quite a large room I am wondering what kind of traps you would advise to build. Broadband absorbers or Ethans ‘tuned’ bass traps. I ran into Ethan Winer’s article of ‘building better bass traps’ on building and using ‘tuned’ traps and my room is about exactly on the stated limit of room dimensions (rooms larger than 25’x15’) for which he advises to build these ‘tuned traps’. Since I really liked these designs I was thinking of placing them all around the room like this:
I placed Deep bass traps in the back corners, and the rest in alternating frequency order (also alternating the placement on opposing walls so that they are not facing each other). these traps will be 2’ wide and 6,5’ high.
Would that make any sense to start off with or should I follow the standard advise of basstrapping every corner first? Since it is a pretty large room trapping all the corners is going to be a pretty intensive job. Are bass problems in such a long room as evident as in a small room?
For creating a RFZ i have some build panels left:
- 4 times: 3’ x 2’ x 2” rigid rock wool panels.
- 4 times: 3’ x 2’ x 8” rigid rock wool panels.
- 2 times: 6’ x 2’ x 8” rigid rock wool broadband absorbers.
These panels I thought of using to create a RFZ. Do you think I should use the 2” thick ones on the side walls and the 8” thick ones on the ceiling or the other way around? I thought of placing the large 6’ x 2’ x 8” absorbers in the corners in front of the room to act as bass traps.
I hope I have provided you with enough information to give me some advise where to start off. I’m really curious about your advise. If I didn’t provide you enough info please let me know and I’ll try to explain it. Thanks in advance!
Greets Tom.