Post by JazzHat on Mar 11, 2018 14:59:33 GMT
Built my own recording studio some time ago with help from this forum and Owens 703 in site built frames. Bass trapped the dihedral & trihedrals & sidewall treatment. Has allowed me to capture some high quality home studio recordings.
But now I have a unique challenge. I have a regular Fri night gig at a local club. The room is concrete floor, drywall ceiling, and barn wood applied to cement block walls. . . Tons of ringing and reflections. Sound pretty good when the place is empty but quickly goes south when there’s a crowd. The good news is the owner has picked up on my observations and wants to improve the acoustics. The bad news is there’s no budget. (Hey, give the man credit for being open to treatment... how many restaurants & clubs out there with terrible acoustics and the management couldn’t care less!?!)
I’ve explained to make it a great listening room, bass trapping & taming reflections work together. But the reality is we are probably not going to do both... and what we do will probably have to be with re-purposed materials. So a couple questions:
1) given the room I describe above, where is the biggest impact - bass traps or killing some reflections? My instinct is kill the ringing first for the biggest impact, agree?
2) we’ve talked about some proper sidewall treatment - 2” 703 in plywood frames covered with burlap or low thread count spandex. Owner would like to try much lower cost options. He has a bunch of burlap feed bags (2’ x 3’) that he’d like to pack with straw and hang on the walls and / or ceiling. (Would fit the rustic decor). My sense is packed straw just won’t be acoustically dense enough and I’m wasting his time if I encourage this experiment. Would there be ANY benefit trying this?
3) if I can convince him to buy a couple boxes of 703 & just wrap it in burlap (the feed bags) . . . Where is the bigger impact - walls or ceiling? Or would it be better to put 1/2 on the walls & 1/2 on the ceiling?
Thanks in advance and again, give this owner credit... he’s not a musician and is locked in the world of supplier cost and tight margins... yet he is willing to explore room acoustics. I applaud that and ask, “how can I best help him”?
But now I have a unique challenge. I have a regular Fri night gig at a local club. The room is concrete floor, drywall ceiling, and barn wood applied to cement block walls. . . Tons of ringing and reflections. Sound pretty good when the place is empty but quickly goes south when there’s a crowd. The good news is the owner has picked up on my observations and wants to improve the acoustics. The bad news is there’s no budget. (Hey, give the man credit for being open to treatment... how many restaurants & clubs out there with terrible acoustics and the management couldn’t care less!?!)
I’ve explained to make it a great listening room, bass trapping & taming reflections work together. But the reality is we are probably not going to do both... and what we do will probably have to be with re-purposed materials. So a couple questions:
1) given the room I describe above, where is the biggest impact - bass traps or killing some reflections? My instinct is kill the ringing first for the biggest impact, agree?
2) we’ve talked about some proper sidewall treatment - 2” 703 in plywood frames covered with burlap or low thread count spandex. Owner would like to try much lower cost options. He has a bunch of burlap feed bags (2’ x 3’) that he’d like to pack with straw and hang on the walls and / or ceiling. (Would fit the rustic decor). My sense is packed straw just won’t be acoustically dense enough and I’m wasting his time if I encourage this experiment. Would there be ANY benefit trying this?
3) if I can convince him to buy a couple boxes of 703 & just wrap it in burlap (the feed bags) . . . Where is the bigger impact - walls or ceiling? Or would it be better to put 1/2 on the walls & 1/2 on the ceiling?
Thanks in advance and again, give this owner credit... he’s not a musician and is locked in the world of supplier cost and tight margins... yet he is willing to explore room acoustics. I applaud that and ask, “how can I best help him”?
Harsh ringy and pingy. 
