windows in control room

hello all you nice people, this is my first post here and after what i read here the last weeks, i´m pretty sure you guys will know an answer. so here i go : 1) one side of my control room there are two wide double-windows (aprox. 7.5´ x 4.2´), i wouldn´t mind to cover a part of them with acoustic-modules, but as i want to keep some daylight, how should i do it ? 2) if i place 2 bass traps on in each corner behind the console would it be enough absorption (as you can see in the picture the other 2 corners are too small to treat with corner traps) ? 3) my ceiling is made of tiles hanging at a distance about 1 foot in an array of small T-profiles (sorry for this dumb english, but i dont know them english words for stuff like that) could this be used to build some bass traps into the ceiling replacing some of the tiles) ? as additional information, the room is about 8 feet high (floor to tiled ceiling), concrete walls, by now there is no acoustical treatment. between the windows there is concrete wall, about 1.5 feet wide. right now we are recording a rockabilly album there, but the next one could easily be a hiphop or jazz band or whatever so it has to work with every kind of music. i dont have any problem with neighbours, as there are none. thanks a lot and big up for this nice place decode

hello, is there anybody out there ... of course i made a mistake when i said the ceiling was made of tiles. it is made of gypsum carton boards as seen in the picture. right now i´m building some simple 4" deep absorbers for my side walls, corners and front wall, 6x2 feet each but for more bass absorption, can i place some bass traps into the array used to hold the gypsum-boards ???? please, please, help

decode wrote:

i wouldn´t mind to cover a part of them with acoustic-modules, but as i want to keep some daylight, how should i do it ?

Can you make some stands? Or maybe hang them on long wires from the ceiling so you can push them out of the way to get more light? The photo below shows a commercial acoustic panel mounted on a stand. > if i place 2 bass traps on in each corner behind the console would it be enough absorption < No, sorry, not enough for good results. All rooms have 12 corners - 4 where the walls meet each other, 4 more where the walls meet the ceiling, and another 4 where the walls meet the floor. In your case with a drop ceiling, the real corners are above the tiles. This is good, because you can treat those corners and they'll be hidden so you don't have to spend time making it look good. :) --Ethan

hi ethan, first of all thanks for your help :D i think i will hang up the absorber on a curtain rail using some nylon thread and stuff the rear top corner with insulation on top of the gypsum. but before, i better measure the response of the room i think. would it be a big no-go if the one absorber on the left has a greater distance to the window than the right absorber has to the wall ? i think that could lead to a unequal frequency balance, more low frequencies on the right ?

decode wrote:

would it be a big no-go if the one absorber on the left has a greater distance to the window than the right absorber has to the wall ? i think that could lead to a unequal frequency balance, more low frequencies on the right ?

Low frequencies propogate all over the place, so a better rule of thumb is, "As much bass trapping as possible wherever the heck you can fit it." :) --Ethan