challenging soffit mount situation

Hi, I'm a new member to this forum, but I've been lurking around and I'm finally posting. I'm on a bit of a dilemma. As you can see from my archaic pictures (would've at least used photoshop; sorry for that :oops: )... The natural room orientation suggested by my CR's original construction is challenging to say the least. On one side, I cannot build ordinary soffit/bass trap structures from floor to ceiling due to a couple of door openings on the front wall: the restroom (doubles as a "machine room" with a booth for my computer, modem, line regulators, etc.) and a closet that I'll be using for mics and stuff. On the other hand the rear wall has a fixed glass and that'll be a problem reflection-wise. My possible solutions are: building soffit mounts over the height of the front wall's doors. And angling down the monitors to compensate for it. Using the corners to place large hangers as bass traps leaving free the doors. I added the option of a 15" false wooden wall to even the simmetry and building corner panels from there at each side. Second solution: placing a very thick curtain on the rear wall that I'll close when I'm mixing. What do you think? Any help is very much appreciated! PS. the drawings are far from being scaled, but hopefully you'll get the idea. Rodrigo Montfort

why not turn the control room around so the speakers are over the window looking into the recording space and your other doors are then on your rear walls?? cheers john

John- thanks for the reply! ... Well I thought of that but for one, the room is naturally built taller on the rear side as it is now. Isn't that the way it's supposed to be? sloped ceiling with the taller side on the rear? Another reason is that the taller side of the room has a door entrance and window, so I would have to leave at least 7 feet between the floor and the bottom of the monitors. The flush mounted monitors would have to be very angled to the bottom. On the shorter wall, the doors are very short (5' 8") so the monitors wouldn't have to be so angled. What do you think? Thanks in advance

is there another way to access the studio without using the door next to the window?? cheer john

No, there isn't another access. If there's a way around, I would like to have the orientation you recommend to have front visual access to the other room. But besides the monitors height issue, I wouldn't be able to place a corner unit on the left front wall (because of the entrance)...

Can you afford to do any surgery? like blocking up the door and moving your access to the studio to via the window cutout - i.e replace the window with a glass door? cheers john

John- I haven't thought of that, thanks! (I must have read this reaction on other threads at least a couple of times, hehe) I'll check on materials and costs, and sort it out. That way soffits would be placed at ear level, 60 or 70 degrees; and that'll work just fine. As for the ceiling issue, what can I do to compensate for the room being higher on the front wall? Would it help if I build the acoustic ceiling angled to the rear wall and install larger corner units in the front than the ones in the back?

Yeah - build a false ceiling or a cloud angleing back from the front - you could even fill the cavity above with hangers and create a big bass trap up there. cheers john