Worst drum room ever?

I dont know if anyone is interested, or if this is even useful... But here is a REW file from a measurement taken as of today (jul 31). This is after all of the corner traps are installed, but BEFORE the slats are placed on the walls. If I am reading it right (which is doubtful) it looks decent, but the waterfall bears out what my ears are hearing which is that this room is certifiably undeniably DEAD DEAD DEAD. I think tomorrow I will just start stapling 6mil plastic up over the traps and see if it brings any life back into the room.,.

I haven't lost interest in your room, Jason! Still following your thread. But I'm just recovering from some minor surgery, and not really up to much analyzing and suggesting, for the next couple of days. - Stuart -

No worries at all Stuart! Life will be busy for me for a week or so with a vacation anyway! :) I hope your surgery was nothing serious and I hope you mend quickly!

Hey Stuart! Hope you are healed up nicely after your surgery. I am back from vacation, and bumping my thread as I am anxious to start working on it again. I have my small drum room (booth) built and some basic acoustic treatment in place. I have Rockwool in the bays of all my inside-out walls & ceiling, and corner traps in the vertical and horizontal corners. I posted a REW file a couple posts back, and things should not have changed much since then. Since that time all I did was put down some luxury vinyl on the floor. I have taken a lot of inspiration from Bigby's garage studio, as our room size was similar. I referred to this a lot during my build: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15430 I framed the longest wall, which is at the far side of the room to be angled, and the depth provides for about 8" to 3 1/2" of mineral wool. I THINK my plan for that wall is to do 1x10 slats spaced 1/6th of an inch apart. If I understand that hemoltz calculators correctly (which is unlikely!) that should give me between 67hz and 109hz traps? I am not planning to put slats up on the other three walls. Just Mineral wool covered by fabric with a little bit of wood as trim at the bottom, around the electrical outlets and maybe a strip here or there to protect the cloth. One question I have is: I have read differing opinions regarding whether it’s a good idea to put plastic up over the mineral wool in a room this small. The room is roughly 10’ 4” x 13 x 8’2“ before the treatment. I read that I can put 6mil plastic over my mineral wool to reflect back frequencies above 1K to improve the decay time of the high end, and help alleviate some of the “deadness” But I also read it might not be a great idea to have high frequencies reflecting back into my mics. I know it’s a small room, and I cant get the universe to rewrite the laws of physics for me. But I would like to do what I can within the bounds of those physics to makes things “less dead”. But maybe “dead” is best in my situation. Just looking for some consensus, I guess. Anyway, thanks in advance for any advice you (or anyone else reading this) can offer. Jason

You could use polys to bring life back into the room and avoid the crazy reflections that come from flat surfaces on your walls. Greg