Studio Rebuild!

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Studio Rebuild!

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Hi Everyone, sorry for being so away from the forum but really had a LOT OF WORK!
Anyway, just wanted to start a topic to share with you my new control room design and build.
Ill be posting updates often

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Ill upload the design as soon as Export it. In this case I used autocad with the help of my friend Rafael who is also an architect
The design is very simple but effective. Since I already have a decoupled recording room, I'm using the existing control room brick walls as the outer leaf and just create the inner stud walls for acoustic treatment and aesthetics .
I got inspired by Wes lachot incredible designs to incorporate onto my needs.
70 percent of the room will be a mix of diffusion and absorption, using a algorithm pattern between slots and absorptive surfaces, plus lots of bass trapping in all corners and a big bass trap cloud overhead the mix position.
The inner diffusive/apsorptive wall will be also angled to 6 degrees each, to provide a RFZ.

I think an image is worth a million words so ill be uploading the design and progress often!
The good thing about spending so much time designing every single detail in the software saves you a lot of time later and gives you exact cutting angles for every joint between woods so you have a state of the art finish.

Hope everyone is doing well
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Hey Javier! Welcome back! It's been a while...

Looking forward to seeing the rebuild as it progresses!


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I just noticed this:
The inner diffusive/apsorptive wall will be also angled to 6 degrees each, to provide a RFZ.
6° per side is good for taming flutter echo, but isn't enough to establish an true RFZ. The actual angle depends on the room dimensions, but you generally need at least 15° per side. For your room, I would guess maybe a bit more.: probably about 17° or 18°. The only way to figure it out for sure is by ray-tracing.


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Surely! But my space is limited
The wall will be 50% absorptive so it will take care hopefully of the lack of angle
My current layout sounds good and has minimum absorption!
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How it looks now
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This is the same control room as before? (Where you used the sub I lent you?) Or is this a different room?

If it's the same one, then I guess those boards are over the window that was at the front left, facing out towards the street?

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The pic is 180 degrees off Stuart, sorry
Yes exact same room
Remember just had a few panels a sounded great?
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The pic is 180 degrees off Stuart, sorry
Ahhhh! OK, Got it. Need one more Pisco Sour to figure it out....

So that frame is where you had the black ceiling tiles?

Yeah, it sounded pretty good back then. But its going to sound a lot better now, I bet!


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Haha, Iphones mistake!
Ill upload the layout asap
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There u go
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For exact angles, a good saw...
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Update
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go for it Javier - let me know if you need any help other than Stuart's considerable help.

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Re: Studio Rebuild!

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Thanks John
So far everything is good
I put some foil specially for the bass trap corners to make a low pass filter and not end having a dull room. What do you think?
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