Small Room newbie problem.

These are my specifications of my basement room. this is my first controle room i'm building. and its all new to me. and it is a verry small room. I would like to do all the building myself. the walls are massive hard brick. i produce a lot of house music. i use a pair of genelec 8040 monitors. Can someone give me some tips? thx Tom

Small room means you need a lot of treatment. A couple bass traps in the back corners and broadband absorption through out. Also, I don't really think in millimeters can you post your measurements in a different unit?

losthighway wrote:

Also, I don't really think in millimeters can you post your measurements in a different unit?

Only the US thinks in the units you think in. The rest of us use metric as it's a better system.

Hehe , sorry it's just the standard mm use in metal working.

Your ceiling height is only 1.8 m? Wow! That is REALLY low. I'm really not sure if you can do anything at all in such a small space. Apart from the acoustic aspects of such a low ceiling, there are simple practical usability aspects: You won't even be able to stand up in there, after you get treatment on the ceiling. Some people won't even be able to stand up in there as it is right now, without any treatment! ( For those of you who are "metrically challenged" ( :) ), 1.8 m is roughly 5'11"... ) - Stuart -

tomverswyvel - perhaps you should abide by the rules and post where you are from - then you might get some understanding.

Here's what John's suggesting; viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3231 Metrics rule ;)

John Sayers wrote:

losthighway wrote:

Also, I don't really think in millimeters can you post your measurements in a different unit?

Only the US thinks in the units you think in. The rest of us use metric as it's a better system.

Ah, but in the U.S. when posting in the metric system we would use the most helpful unit. 10 meters is easier to read/visualize that a bajillion millimeters (yes I know conversion is easy in the metric system and I'm a yankee doodle, but why not use the closest unit?). We also use decimal points instead of commas. We also spell gray with an a instead of an e. I might be with the British Empire on the e though. Much more poetic looking.

Yeah, but you guys never did figure out how to spell "aluminium": It seems like the middle "i" fell overboard and drowned, somewhere in the journey over the pond... :) But if you want a muddle of imperial and metric, come to Chile! Plywood is sold in 4 foot by 8 foot sheets that are 9mm, 12mm or 15mm thick. But drywall comes in 1.2m x 2.4 m sheets. Lumbar is sold as 2x4, 2x6, 2x8 etc, but comes in lenghts of 3.2 m, 3.6 m, etc. Paint normally comes in one gallon cans, but if you don't want that much you can go down to the next smaller size, which is one liter. And of course you'd apply it with a four inch brush. Or maybe a 25cm roller.... I could carry on, but I think you get the picture....

losthighway, You do not speak for the U.S. that I know of. We use both because we deal in an International market place. ;) When in Rome....

I wish the US was metric. Adding/subtracting/dividing fractions is a pain the balls. My Brother-in-law immigrated from Great Britain and he told me it took him years to think in Imperial.

Soundman2020 wrote:

But if you want a muddle of imperial and metric, come to Chile! Plywood is sold in 4 foot by 8 foot sheets that are 9mm, 12mm or 15mm thick. But drywall comes in 1.2m x 2.4 m sheets. Lumbar is sold as 2x4, 2x6, 2x8 etc, but comes in lenghts of 3.2 m, 3.6 m, etc.

Y uds hablan en un espanol mas raro que todo el mundo! You write very well in English by the way. Let's not forget that the English still weigh themselves in 'stone'. Ah my forefathers were a mighty bunch.

Y uds hablan en un espanol mas raro que todo el mundo! You write very well in English by the way.

(Translation: And you guys speak the strangest Spanish in the entire world!) You can say that again! Los chilenos tienen algunos hábitos ligüísticos muy curiosos, ni menionionar la proununciación y la gramatica... Pero por lo menos ¡no somos argentinos! :) ) The reason I write good English is probably because I'm Australian by birth, British by nationality, lived in both countries for many years, lived in South Africa for a few years too, travel to the USA and Canada on business frequently, and language is one of my passions. With that mixed background, you can imagine what my accent sounds like!! I've been living in Chile for a couple of decades now, but my roots are still in Australia / South Africa / England / USA. I do some part-time work as a translator and consecutive interpreter, to help make ends meet (and help finance studio construction!), and some of my English-speaking customers find it really hard to figure out where I come from, based on my accent! But anyway, getting more or less back on topic: I never have figured out why the USA has not yet joined the rest of the world in the metric system. It makes everything so much simpler. I'm comfortable in both metric and imperial (see above background!), but metric is simple and logical, while imperial is a nightmare. - Stuart -

I'm all for it. I just think studio should be measured in meters, not thousands of millimeters. I know the conversion is not that hard, but why use safety pins to measure a castle? (re aligning to the OP who will make his little audio castle with extensive acoustic treatment)

Soundman2020 wrote:

I never have figured out why the USA has not yet joined the rest of the world in the metric system. - Stuart -

I believe when the US split from the Motherland it was based on more then just freedom of religion. It may have been a math issue as well ;)

EDIT by Me .... Actually it's late & I'm tired and need to get up early, I think I'll come back to this one - when not so tired as to make some small room sense. Cheers ADDA.