Forum Attitude

A forum is about knowledge sharing and creating a community. I realize that the subject matter experts in this forum are too busy to answer the same questions over and over again. But continually telling new members to "read the stickies", even when an honest attempt is made to find the answers in existing posts is poor form. It also defeats the purpose of a forum. If you guys wanted a top down approach to knowledge sharing, why not just write a blog or a book. Then people wont bother you with their annoying and redundant questions.

If you guys wanted a top down approach to knowledge sharing, why not just write a blog or a book.

Rod did that, several years ago. It didn't seem to help, though, as people still come in expecting to be spoon fed for free, while totally ignoring the huge wealth of info that is freely available here for everyone who can actually muster enough interest in building their studio correctly to bother to read the instructions on the very first page. Yeah, the attitude here sucks, but only for newbies who don't (or can't) read instructions too well. Personally, I wouldn't have it any other way! Yeah, it's tough for someone who comes here with good intentions and asks a question without realizing that folks here have already answered the exact same question a dozen times, in a dozen different ways, with the last time being just an hour or two back. But then again, if they would have bothered to READ the instructions and FOLLOW them, then they would have known that.... Or at least known enough to do what most well-mannered newbies do (who HAVE read the instructions), which is to say something like "I know it must be here somewhere, but could somebody please show me where to find xyz?". A question like that will get an answer. A question like "Hi I'm building a studio please show me how." will not. If you ask me, anyone who comes here and can't handle the "attitude" of the forum without falling apart, ranting, raving and swearing, probably doesn't have what it takes to build their own studio by themselves anyway. IMHO - Stuart -

Chris-P wrote:

why not just write a blog or a book. Then people wont bother you with their annoying and redundant questions.

John did just that. It is on the opening page of the website. Link repeated here.

I must admit, I'M a little hesitant. I looked in the stickies and couldn't find anything about diffusion so I put up a question. It's been up two days and has one answer with a link to a couple of pictures of diffusors. I'M frightened to ask again incase I upset the protocol. Incidently, I do have the drive to build a studio, in fact I already have ... but it could be better :?

Don't worry about it. Were a bunch of goldfish. annoy them today.....have em devoted to reading your future diary tommorrow! :mrgreen:

I looked in the stickies and couldn't find anything about diffusion so I put up a question.

I don't recall seeing your question on diffusion. Guess I must have missed it. Got the link? But you'll most likely find that there isn't much here on diffusion in small rooms because some of the experts here have pointed out that diffusion does not work well in small rooms, if at all! Diffusion needs space to work, and small rooms don't have it. So if you have a small room planned, then probably diffusion is not a good idea. But if your room is large enough, then sure!

the problem with diffusion is it's all over the place. 8)

All over the place...that's acoustic humor! "But continually telling new members to "read the stickies", even when an honest attempt is made to find the answers in existing posts is poor form" Chris, I can think of at least six different ways a typical floor exists in a building....in your country. I can think of another three different types that I have been introduced to in other countries. In Chile you bolt every wall plate down, interior and exterior, to the concrete. In the UK, as a rule, walls are block/brick walls. In Canada they use 2X6 wall framing members. In California you have to consider earthquakes, much like you have to consider them in Chile. In Birmingham, Alabama you have to consider tornadoes, depending on the geography. No one asks too much here. The issue is that new posters do not have the ability to see outside of their little area.

"The problem with diffusion ... it's all over the place" :yahoo: I thought I had a big room until I came here lol. I read somewhere here that anything under 1500 sq ft is small ... so I'M not sure now :roll: I've an awkward bloody room so I will go and measure and take pictures. I kinda know what I'M looking for just wanted to know if anyone has done a DIY diffusor job

F. Alton Everest stated that anything less than 1500 cubic feet (volume) is a small room.

Soundman2020 wrote:

I looked in the stickies and couldn't find anything about diffusion so I put up a question.

I don't recall seeing your question on diffusion. Guess I must have missed it. Got the link?

Here ye go Stu: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13955

pleasurehead wrote:

I must admit, I'M a little hesitant. I looked in the stickies and couldn't find anything about diffusion so I put up a question. It's been up two days and has one answer with a link to a couple of pictures of diffusors. I'M frightened to ask again incase I upset the protocol. Incidently, I do have the drive to build a studio, in fact I already have ... but it could be better :?

I DID answer your question with more answers than you actually (!) asked ;)

the problem with diffusion is it's all over the place.

Heheh!!! :) ( Corny, but good! ) - Stuart -

Here ye go Stu: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13955

Thanks, Ro! Appreciated.

I, as a "noobie", have no problem with the way that this forum is run. I am very new to acoustics and to any construction aspects in general. The amount that I have learned in the past year or so makes my head hurt, sometimes, but I've learned 95% of it from READING. I was hesitant to ever post anything here. When I finally did, I had put a ton of work into it. The "fear" forced me to really dot my T's, as they say. I posted a plan for our control room last April and no one ever replied. So, I just kept on reading everything that I could find and before long, I learned that the plan that I had wasn't going to work for various reasons. There isn't much out there that hasn't been done before. Yes, yes, every space is different and all that. Air is air, materials are materials and sound is sound. Learn all the theory that you can. Put it into practice and see how it applies.... or doesn't apply. People can give you all the advice they can stomach, but in the end, the work has to get done.. and once you actually START the work, that's when you really start learning. Respectfully, Seamus

Correct Seamus. And the saying you were reaching for is "Cross your T's and dot your I's. It is a reference to reread, edit and correct your spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors in order to not be given a lesser grade on tests that require the written word as the vehicle to convey your message.

Oh, thanks. I thought that it was "remember to put the little thing on your Q's and make sure your P's backs are straight". ... or was that something else...