Live room questions

overflownpro · Post by **overflownpro** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 4:50 am

I am still in the design stage of building my studio and decided I need some advice on live room acoustics. The live room is 11'x15' with a sliding door in one of the 15' and one of the 11' walls. My main questions are, is it practical to use a portion of the 11' wall for a rock wall diffusor and then is the room even big enough to be effective as a live room (mostly for recording drums).

knightfly · Post by **knightfly** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 6:26 am

On the bottom wall, are those Poly's - and are you intending to use them in addition to the rock wall? I'm not sure, but I think the room is a bit small for that much diffusion, if you ever wanted a tight, more "focussed" drum sound.

The rock wall might work OK if you also were to build a couple of gobos to screen it, for more options... Steve

(been reading Philip Newell's books, or just into Dungeons & Dragons?

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overflownpro · Post by **overflownpro** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 12:40 pm

(been reading Philip Newell's books, or just into Dungeons & Dragons? )

I don't quite understand, what is it you were reffering to??

knightfly · Post by **knightfly** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:57 pm

Sorry, guess not - Phillip Newell has some excellent books out on studio design, etc, and has pix in more than one book showing rock walls in rooms - I just thought you'd maybe been reading them and got the idea from that, no big deal -

Anyway, if you want a rock wall and you find out later that it's too diffusive, it would be a pretty expensive and time consuming experiment - but the good news is, if that happened you could, rather than demolishing the wall, just cover parts of it with absorbers to tame it down a bit... Steve