Studio Layout... [updated]

Ok, I will toss my hat into the ring. Because the room is so deep, I'd make the left and right rear walls slat absorbers. and the center rear wall absorptive have you seen the family portrait for doing soffits by John. I'd use/modify that design to build you soffits. I'd use that cavity to your front left to hang bass hangers and of course the cavities in the rear for the same. how tall is your ceiling again? look at this pic for ideas for your front wall area and the soffits. http://johnlsayers.com/Studio/Images/Up6/Up6_6.jpg

Matter of fact, take a look at Blue Bears room, it is quite similar to your room... Notice the varied angles on the entrance wall to break up the possible parallel wall issue at that location. <img src ="http://www.johnlsayers.com/Studio/Images/BlueBear/Studios_2.jpg" /img> http://www.johnlsayers.com/Pages/Bluebear.htm

giles117 wrote:

Ok, I will toss my hat into the ring. Because the room is so deep, I'd make the left and right rear walls slat absorbers. and the center rear wall absorptive have you seen the family portrait for doing soffits by John. I'd use/modify that design to build you soffits. I'd use that cavity to your front left to hang bass hangers and of course the cavities in the rear for the same. how tall is your ceiling again? look at this pic for ideas for your front wall area and the soffits. http://johnlsayers.com/Studio/Images/Up6/Up6_6.jpg

Well, actual ceiling is around 12 feet, but there are rafters, steel rafters that are about 3 feet in height.. so actual max is really about 9 feet outer dimensions, which means for the inside, 9 feet, minus the thickness of the ceiling.. as for the family portrait, I don't believe I have seen that for the soffit mounting.. that's what we were thinking of doing for the LSR's.. our only question is, since they are MidField's should we point them back more to have their focused listening position be back towards where the seats are behind the rack space?? I like how the soffit mounting is in the picture.. Definitely add that to the folder of stuff for the redesign.. thanks again for the advice, tomorrow I'll be searching around here for some ideas on slat absorbers.. tonight it's late :yawn: really though, thanks giles!!! you rock!! :D eric

Here is that soffit pic Bryan Giles

THATS GREAT!! Thanks.. I believe we'll be doing that.. heres another revision of the layout.. I added in the soffit mounting, would this be acceptable?? that should be the exact size of the LSR's horizontally mounted (they can be).. also, moved the working space around some, everything should be far enough away to not seem crammed, but close enough to reach without having to roll forever.. anyway, I think that's all for now.. I've been busy reading and researching, and then drawing.. definitely love SmartDraw, just trying to figure it all out.. :D :D THANKS AGAIN!!! eric

looks good to me Bryan Giles

Personally.... I would advise you against soffit-mounting your LSR28s. Nothing against you Giles or anyone else, but I am talking from experience of using the same LSRs in our studio here for quite a while now. Our LSR28s are free-standing and we are getting very tight and accurate mixes from them that way (demo and commercial release mixes). I am not so sure that that would be the case if they were soffit-mounted; especially since they are rear-ported monitors. I know sjoko has his LSR28s soffit- mounted, but again, I am not personally for soffit-mounting this particular monitor or any other rear-ported monitor for that matter. Just my 2 cents. 8)

JBL have approved of soffit mounting these speakers. cheers john

We have the 32's, which are not rear ported, only front ported.. They look just like the 12" sub, except they aren't powered and have a mid and a tweeter.. :D but, thanks for trying to chime in.. I always enjoy other peoples thoughts on everything :D :D any more thoughts on the layout?? thanks again everyone!!! eric