New here and need some insight

mr. torture · Post by **mr. torture** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 10:02 pm

I have finally been able to track down some Rigid Fiberglass and will be preparing to treat my sound room. The control room is seperate from where the amps, vocals etc. are. and I will get to that as soon as I set up the sound room. (no drums)
I will be recording metal music meaning big guitars and vocals
and would like to know how to properly treat the room.
The room size is as follows:
Length= 31'
width= 12-1/2'
height= 7-1/2'
(This is a basement)
one wall protrudes out 6" on the 31' length for a distance of 10'
in the center of it.
the other walls are straight.
The ceiling is open joist with regular fiberglass in between.
It has a bare cement floor.
If someone could give me a rough idea on what type of placement of panels I should have in a room of that size It would be greatly appreciated.
I am planning on building the traps on Ethan's site low/mid/high
absorbers.
I will have 1" and 2" thick owens corning fiberglass panels.

I was thinking of building ethan's trap designs low, mid, high
and running them right down every wall with maybe 2" of spacing between each trap. I was also thinking of building the low-low bass traps (4" of rigid fiberglass) and stradle the corners.
Is this too much absorbtion?

Thanks for any help you can provide

knightfly · Post by **knightfly** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 12:19 am

Gee, this post sounds familiar

I just answered over on HR, but by all means have a LOOOONG look around here - there is a higher ratio of knowledgeable people here than at HR, so nearly anyone who answers you here will be helpful... Steve

Sen · Post by **Sen** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:14 am

...but not me ...don't ever listen to me mr. torture...friendly warning..

mr. torture · Post by **mr. torture** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:36 pm

Here is a rather crude drawing of my basement studio. I hope it will give you an idea of what I have to work with and you will be able to point me in the right direction when I begin to add the absorbsion panels.

copy and paste the link in your browser-http://.photos.yahoo.com/smallv6

Thanks!!

P.S.- Sen, I will be sure and follow err... I mean avoid your advise

knightfly · Post by **knightfly** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:57 pm

Here's your drawing, the link was a PITA to get to work... Steve

mr. torture · Post by **mr. torture** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:58 pm

http://photos.yahoo.com/smallv6
woops! I think the dot in front of the word photos messes it up

knightfly · Post by **knightfly** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:00 pm

BTW, are all those walls and doors, etc, already in place or is this still in the planning stage?

mr. torture · Post by **mr. torture** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:04 pm

Steve,
Thanks for posting the photo for me, The walls and doors are already there pre-existing.
This can be changed to some extent if needed. The 31' wall that divides the 2 halves of the room is built around the supports for the main beam that runs down the center of the house.

knightfly · Post by **knightfly** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 4:21 pm

So, after reading my comments at HR, what are your thoughts? Steve

mr. torture · Post by **mr. torture** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 7:41 am

Yes, I would be willing to lose the 2-3 feet you spoke of.
Any ideas yet?
Thanks again!!