Hello,
I'm working on my relatively small live room. 11x16x8
While I've kept the floor live, I pretty much intend to make the rest very dead. I'd like to keep the reverb time more or less even on all frequencies.
My thoughts tell me that I will need severe bass trapping in such a room, but I'm not sure exactly which method to go with.
The room would be a conventional triangle, but I was forced to install my heater in one corner of the room. I've built a closet around it which takes up 2'x3' in one corner. Now the room is certainly not symetrical, but I don't know if this is important for drums and guitars.
How do I test a room to find the problem frequencies to fix?
I have a Behringer test mic and ETF software. Do I toss studio monitors into the room? Where would I place them? This is a much different situation as placement will very quite a bit.
The room is 16x11x8. It has a drop ceiling which I will be putting a layer of 4lb 4" Rockwool above. As stated before one corner has a 2'x3' section taken for the furnace closet.
I've got a ton of rockwool, but I just need to figure how to test the room so that I can actually find the problem areas and treat it.
Thanks
Brandon Drury
acoustic testing of irregular live room
Originally posted at johnlsayers.com, topic 2090.
Looks like no takers on this one - did you really mean "triangle"?
Is the 8' ceiling to the drop ceiling, or to a solid barrier, and what's the drop ceiling material?
Just off the top, having 8' and 16' dimensions will give you problems @ 70, 140, 210, etc - hopefully that ceiling is absorptive so the hard boundary above it will dominate the modes... Steve