well first of all i am in a facility that is about 20 x 11 with a angled cileing from 6' in the back to about 12' in the front. now the room is divided into two rooms with the control room in the back with the dimensions of 11 x11 (i now this is absolutly horrible but im stuck in it)and the roof starting at 6' to about 7', and a 11 x 17 live room with the roof starting at 7' and goes to 10'. in both rooms i have tried to deaden the cieling with insulation and 2" thick styrophome.
and now for some questions
the contol room:
is it a problem to have my monitors set sideways in the room so the angle of the cieling is going lowest from my left to highest at the right when mixing,(basically sideways in the room) i have ceiling pretty much deadend with 3" studed foam bard and heavy blankets, and i want to if i am avoidi8ng problems or creating them this way.
the live room:
again it is a 11 x 17 room with an angled ceiling from 7' to 10'
which other than the roof is close to a golden dimension except the roof which i have deadend. the question i have is can i build plywood stuctures framed up and simply lay them against the existing walls to narrow the 11' wide space to the golden width. my goal is to slant these new false walls vertically to ofset standing waves. will this work or does a false wall have to better connected to the room
my studio specs and what to do with them
Originally posted at johnlsayers.com, topic 1672.
Greetings! Couple of observations...
Whats that styro doing there? Chances are, not much for your sound. If you can replace it with rigid fiberglass insulation, you'll do much better. Closed cell insulation (which extruded styrofoam is) doesn't do much for acoustics.in both rooms i have tried to deaden the cieling with insulation and 2" thick styrophome.
You'd have to have your ceiling awfully dead for it to not affect the sound. Even so, you'll have better sound with the speakers firing down the long axis of the room (just because first reflections off the back wall will take longer to get back to you, and be weaker when they get there). If they ARE firing down the long way, but the ceiling is sloped sideward, then you're stuck with a choice of evils. Having your ceiling deadend to high and mid freqs doesn't mean it's dead to lows. These won't affect your stereo imaging quite as much, but they will. You could mix the whole thing in mono, then create the stereo spread and check it on headphones, I suppose... As far as your live room, I wouldn't worry too much about golden dimensions. Chances are you're close enough. If you want to cut down flutter echoes without deadening the room, what you've proposed will work. There's dozens of solutions for that kind of thing rolling around on these boards, so pick the one that works best for you. I personally would look for the one that takes up the least floor space, but that's 'cause I have a small studio... Hope this helps! Kase www.minemusic.netis it a problem to have my monitors set sideways in the room so the angle of the cieling is going lowest from my left to highest at the right when mixing,(basically sideways in the room)