New Studio in Limassol, Cyprus. Help needed!

hello everyone. we've just started making our new small studio in Limassol, Cyprus and i would like to post a couple of pictures and get some feedback. it's an old factory warehouse in an area without neighbors so there is no "annoying the neighbors" happening. we'll do almost everything our self and i could use any help i could get from this amazing forum (which i just found out). In the control room, behind the mixer is a brick wall with a window that can't be moved. The same on the right with communication windows. the wall behind the mixer and the one left, is a "fake" wall, with gypsum on the inside and the outside. the rest is Gypsum boards over the walls with rock wool insulation inside. in the live room everything is gypsum boards over the walls with 50mm rock wool inside. the biggest problem of the live room is that it has a ceiling that it's about 6 meters high and we can't afford to insulate and diffuse all that space so we've separated it at 3 meters high like the control room is. i'd appreciate all the help we can get! thank u Andreas

3m high is nice - if you can afford to go to 4m that would be nicer. perhaps slope the ceiling in the CR from 3m to 4m (front to back)? in the live room you could do that side to side. on the front (window) wall in the CR - you could build out your treatments to block some of the window so that your treatment correctly balances the room. keeping in mind the general rule on double leaf walls - mass on one side or the other of walls which have a small air gap (< 1m), not on both sides - since you want the isolation between live and CR to be good. but on the back wall of the CR, since you have a hallway there, you could have the drywall over both sides of the frame.

Hi Glenn and thanks a lot for the reply. a couple of notes that i didn't write (my bad) 1) i can't go 4 m in the control room as the ceiling is concrete. is it too bad to make the slope still? i'm going to go less than 3m then. 2) the front window of the control room will be upvc triple glazing window. do i still need sound treatment? 3) there is a dry wall on both sides of the frame of the back wall of the control room with rockwool insulation inside. that's what u meant right? thank a lot again for your time! Andreas

stick with the flat 3m height then. the front treatment - goal is to make it symmetrical so part of that window will likely be covered to add in the necessary bass trapping etc. the back wall sounds right.

ok thank you very much! questions about acoustic treatment, shall i just post in another topic?

you could stick with this thread

Good morning people! How r u today? my next question is: how do i treat the room acoustically? i have a few ideas but i could use some help from more expert people! thank u already and have a great day....or night wherever u r! Andreas

i would think super chunks in the corners, absorption on first reflection points, a cloud or two in the CR. in the live room - slats angled to break up the corners, scattered ceiling absorption, some additional scattered absorption on the walls as needed.

thanks again Glenn. Seems like you r my hero these couple of days. we r buying this acoustics kit that comes with a software. http://www.thomann.de/gb/primacoustic_b ... _beige.htm i don't know a lot about acoustics but i'm reading my eyes off these last few days. the last advice you gave me, do u mean that in general? i can just put scattered absorption where ever i want? or should i have somebody or this software tell me where to put it? now you may want to kill me: what is super chunks? (massive bass traps?) thank again and again for your time Andreas

you put the absorption scattered around the walls and ceiling to break up reflections and distribute the absorption. this tends to balance the space and create a diffusive effect. super chunks are typically stacks of rigid insulation which span the corners (wall-wall, wall-ceiling, wall-floor - are all "corners") and from floor to ceiling (or as needed on the other corner types). you cut the 600mm x 1200mm x 100mm rigid insulation (48kg/m3) sheets into triangles or fill the corner with lighter insulation (15kg/m3) then put the rigid insulation across the face. use simply frames on each side to attach cloth to. use supports on a vertical corner to hold up the insulation so it does not compact or sag. do a search on this site and you'll see a number of examples.

thanks Glenn. i'm already on the search and i've already saw a lot of good stuff in here!