gullfo wrote:
take a look at some of John's designs where he has incorporated reversible treatments
I'll do
:) When I finish of studing some books I'll take a look to all the designs and ideas of this forum. It seems very intereseting, I'm sure it's full of valuable information!
gullfo wrote:
the small booth should be ok for vox and my choice is to be slightly more live than dead so using slat resonators will help balance the room and you could consider a more dead ceiling treatment and reversible hanging absorbers/reflectors.
Ok, thank you. Right now I'm still studing all this but it's nice to know already that I can get a good vox booth in that space!
My initial idea was absorbent ceiling and a double slope wall in the south (vertical + horizontal), with bass trap behind the wall. Then yes, some helmotz resontator when we identify a problem. Some quadratic diffusers can be added to the remaining walls too. Something like that
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gullfo wrote:
i would make room 2 a nice quality booth and make the hall the lounge for people to hang out.
Hmm... the hall is there to make a studio with no doors. As you can see in the design there is no doors between any of the work zones, so I hope to get a more affordable insolation using not so good (and expensive) doors. The only weak point: the windows, which I want to be in the order of the same (of not too much below) SNR than the walls.
That's added to the idea of creating a place where people can hear and watch the performances, which can be done from the Room 2. The plan is to add a couple of loudspeakers and a couple of sofas, which indeed are nice bass traps. In the hall they can't watch anything.
Hmm.. that's not compromising the Room 2 to be a nice quality room, is it?
I don't mind if the room has its own sound and it colour the sound from the loudspeakers, there's not gonna be there any critical listening.
If anyone thinks its a bad idea, please tell me!
gullfo wrote:
in the CR, if you're going to make it a teaching facility, you should think about the seating for viewing vs active participants - raised level seating in back, and/or lower level in front of the CR window for viewing. depends on your console and monitor arrangements.
Yes, I have to think that. Not done yet. Thanks!
Now I'm thinking in a solution for the double doors. We are going to use them to introduce grand pianos inside the large room. I've read about how to make good DIY doors but nothing about double doors. My idea was to build neoprene frames to fit the doors (like Rod Gervais describes in his book) but that cannot be done with double doors.
As you can see in the design now there are 3 double doors (outside, large room & store).
The store one hasn't to be so good, so no problem with it. I can get rid of the outside one puting another double going directly from outside to the store, so we can use it only to introduce the piano thru the store. I'll make a simple door when it's the double now to be the main access to the studio, which is the critical insulation point, so that's a lot better.
But I have no idea of how get rid of the hall one. I don't want it to be the main door to the large hall because it won't be practical, but I don't want to make a wider hall and loose that space just to put an adjacent single door. I don't want to connect it directly outside too, for the insulation reason.
I have another problem too. I didn't think that making a live-dead room in the large one it's going to be very versatile when recording rock-folk groups but very horrible when recording an orchestral or coral band because of the unbalanced acoustic! So I have to think a way to reverse it. Right now I'm thinking in the use of diffusive/absorbent symetrically north & south walls and then a reflective east wall and an absorbent west wall. Then using some kind of hanging panels with hooks to make one or another wall either reflective or absorbent. The problem with this is that I'm not gonna get a good live side, because there is not going to be too much reflections if only one wall is reflective, it has to be at least 2 or 3.
So.. any ideas for any of both problems?
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Ah, thanks for your comments gullfo!