Studio Rebuild!

Hi Everyone, sorry for being so away from the forum but really had a LOT OF WORK! Anyway, just wanted to start a topic to share with you my new control room design and build. Ill be posting updates often Cheers

Ill upload the design as soon as Export it. In this case I used autocad with the help of my friend Rafael who is also an architect The design is very simple but effective. Since I already have a decoupled recording room, I'm using the existing control room brick walls as the outer leaf and just create the inner stud walls for acoustic treatment and aesthetics . I got inspired by Wes lachot incredible designs to incorporate onto my needs. 70 percent of the room will be a mix of diffusion and absorption, using a algorithm pattern between slots and absorptive surfaces, plus lots of bass trapping in all corners and a big bass trap cloud overhead the mix position. The inner diffusive/apsorptive wall will be also angled to 6 degrees each, to provide a RFZ. I think an image is worth a million words so ill be uploading the design and progress often! The good thing about spending so much time designing every single detail in the software saves you a lot of time later and gives you exact cutting angles for every joint between woods so you have a state of the art finish. Hope everyone is doing well

Hey Javier! Welcome back! It's been a while... Looking forward to seeing the rebuild as it progresses! - Stuart -

I just noticed this:

The inner diffusive/apsorptive wall will be also angled to 6 degrees each, to provide a RFZ.

6° per side is good for taming flutter echo, but isn't enough to establish an true RFZ. The actual angle depends on the room dimensions, but you generally need at least 15° per side. For your room, I would guess maybe a bit more.: probably about 17° or 18°. The only way to figure it out for sure is by ray-tracing. - Stuart -

Surely! But my space is limited The wall will be 50% absorptive so it will take care hopefully of the lack of angle My current layout sounds good and has minimum absorption!

How it looks now

This is the same control room as before? (Where you used the sub I lent you?) Or is this a different room? If it's the same one, then I guess those boards are over the window that was at the front left, facing out towards the street? - Stuart -

The pic is 180 degrees off Stuart, sorry Yes exact same room Remember just had a few panels a sounded great?

The pic is 180 degrees off Stuart, sorry

Ahhhh! OK, Got it. Need one more Pisco Sour to figure it out.... So that frame is where you had the black ceiling tiles? Yeah, it sounded pretty good back then. But its going to sound a lot better now, I bet! - Stuart -

Haha, Iphones mistake! Ill upload the layout asap

There u go

For exact angles, a good saw...

Update

go for it Javier - let me know if you need any help other than Stuart's considerable help. cheers john

Thanks John So far everything is good I put some foil specially for the bass trap corners to make a low pass filter and not end having a dull room. What do you think?

that will work - I use plastic over all the walls for that very reason.

Do you .use it all over the walls because you have very transparent fabric? Mine is pretty tight so I thought I wouldn't need to cover all walls..

No it's for keeping the high end bright.

Looking great, Javier! And I simply cannot believe that you were working on your studio during Fiestas Patrias! :shock: :) :!: Where's your patriotism!!! :) Seriously, it's looking good! Sorry I haven't commented much, but I've been on vacations in La Serena, enjoying the sun (and the fiestas patrias...) - Stuart -

Thanks Stuart! Yes working full time!!! More pics

What? No chicha? No asado? No pisco sour? No queca? :shock: :!: :?: - Stuart -

Just a few drinks and hangovers but no time for holidays! Been working non stop for 21 days now and gotta start producing a new film ASAP (Stefan Kramer ) the good things we are building with friends and no workers so we've had great times doing it So far the room sounds very good. And I haven't put any equipment yet! Nice and bright and still have to put more fabric and reflective/diffusive wooden slats

gotta start producing a new film ASAP (Stefan Kramer )

Cool! That should be fun, and hopefully profitable too. Pretty neat that you managed to land such a major production, too! No wonder you need to get the place done quickly. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help. - Stuart -

Yes, I did the first one too and was very profitable ! I needed a nail gun but you didn't answer my messages haha, but don't worry we did the framing with quality screws and It was fast Feel free to stop by whenever you want to see the progress, the cool thing about this is that finally I had the chance to make the control room treatment I wanted in the first place. The recording room John designed for me is top class and I hope the CR will be too with my humble design with all the good experience I gained from this forum plus designing a couple more studios for friends. I might even start a business for acoustic designs and solutions! And this time I'll do for sure an opening cocktail! With pisco sours :D

And I forgot to mention this design is 5.1 ready, I placed all electrical and audio conduits hidden by the framing for a future 5.1 upgrade, so no visible cables and neat finish :)