NonCommercial Studio Facility

Goals: To acousticly enhance existing recording and listening rooms Progress: Research/Planning Neighbors: None Budget: As low as possible. Got 100000 NOK on budget this year, and possibly the same amount next year. The studios are for public use, music interested kids aged 16-25 gets to use it for free. This is a non-commercial studio aiming to make young songwriters, artists, producers and technicians get more skilled.

Equipment Genelec 8030A 5x Genelec 7060B 1x Computer running Cubase 4 RME Fireface 18** 27squaremeteres. Solid timber walls with unknown woodfiber panels cover. The ceiling is made of woodboards covered with mixture of gypsum and hay ive been told. Floor is linoleum coverd, underneat is a layer of wood. on top of studs. This is our surroundfacility. Windows will be covered with another layer of glass to keep trafficnoise out. Doors will be replaced with single 35db glass doors, or possibly double standard glass doors, if the cost of sounddoors is to expencive. Door to recordingroom will be added later. Goal: Acoustic enhancment without making drastic changes to the room. Suggestions to acoustic treatment: Bass traps in three corners. front/left/right Acoustic panels between windows (did the mirror trick and found reflection spots here.) Curtains on walls behind surround speakers. Cloud above mixing position. Slat resonator behind mixing position Wants response on: Speaker placement mix position acoustic suggestion

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Equipment Macpro running Cubase 4 and ProTools LE Digidesign Mbox Mini Genelc 8040A 2x Old Bedroom with on-suite bathroom. Bath is covered in tiles. Bedrom has solid timber walls covered with wood panels. The ceiling is made of woodboards covered with mixture of gypsum and hay ive been told. Floor is linoleum coverd, underneat is a layer of wood. on top of studs. Windows will be covered with another layer of glass to keep trafficnoise out. Doors will be replaced with single 35db glass doors, or possibly double standard glass doors, if the cost of sounddoors is to expencive. The bathroom will be our recording room. Need some input on treatment. Goal: Acoustic enhancment without making drastic changes to the room. Suggestions to acoustic treatment: Bass traps in all four Cloud above mixing position. Acoustic panels behind mixing position. Wants response on: Speaker placement mix position acoustic suggestion

A suggestion for a basic design for cloud, panels and bass trapps. The two designs are based on std. insulation sizes in Norway. typical dimensions are 570mm x 1200mm. therefor, inner dimensions of frames will be 57cm x 120cm, or half: 57cm *60cm. the larger design is intended for clouds and bass traps (hanging at 45degrees in corners) and the smaller ones is intended for use hanging on walls.

Added acoustic treatment to Bathroom studio. Will this setup do anything for the listening environment? Added 8 panels at 45 degrees in the corners. had to use two panels per corner due to height. added 6 panels behind mixing desk. should these be located at surface or do a gap between them and the back wall do any extra benefits? added 1 panel as cloud. insecure about positioning, but the purpose is to reduce first reflections from ceiling? Will probably add downlight to the ceiling construction, and probably use plain white fabric.

Added basstraps to surround studio layout. Also plotted mirror test results. (sitting at mixing position and noticing where you see the speaker front when someone moves a mirror round the walls of the studio) Only added results for the left side of the room, the right side will be identical. Treatment for reflections will be added where the line hits the wall.

knightfly wrote:

if you can have a friend hold a fairly large mirror against the wall while you sit at the desk, have the friend move the mirror around the room (along the walls about half-way between you and the speaker locations) and place fairly thick mineral wool absorbent (like at least 3 inch thick, mounted with at least 3 inch air gap behind - 4" and 4" would be better in this case) mounted anywhere you can see either speaker in the mirror. These treatments should be fairly good sized, like at least 3 feet by 3 feet (1 meter square) or larger.

http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/viewt ... c&start=19 This calls for a change of size. using two insulation mats will give an absorber sized 125x125 cm. Four of those placed at each wall will probably help in the surround studio. Still wondering about what to do behind the mixing position.