Suppose one had a roughly 20 X 40 room that had a pitched ceiling about 24' high. I know that avoiding parallel walls is a good idea. Does that mean they have to be out of parallel all the way up to the ceiling?
Hi Paul,
Not sure what exactly you meant there...sorry mate...
Unparallel all the way to the ceiling? How would you make it unparallel up to 15' and then parallel after that
I think I'm not understanding you... can you explain what you meant....
Sorry if I wasn't clear (believe it or not, it has happened before).
What I would be starting with would be a room where the walls were square, say 20' wide, 40 long with a 24' or so ceiling. From what I know, the right angles of the room would make it less than ideal for recording, as some frequencies would be accentuated by the walls which were parallel to one another.
If I were to address this by building angled walls within the room, could these angled walls extend upwards 14'or so up and still do the job (seeing as the sound source is on or close to the ground)? Would these angled walls need to go all the way to the ceiling?
Are you considering putting a ceiling in at that 14' ht to connect to all those walls? I'd hate to see all that space above 14' not treated by whatever means, angles, ceilign, etc... Could be an acoustical nightmare for you.
I would not put a ceiling in at 14'. It would be open all the way to the top.
Considering that the sound sources will be 6' off the ground and lower, I wonder if I can cap off the slanted additional walls I put in, leaving the walls above 14' as they are (square) to the ceiling. If a sound is produced near ground level, it would reach the upper areas at an angle, and the ceiling is pitched at an angle, so I am imagining that it would be OK.
I certainly don't really know the subject, so be kind---
Yes, it is a live room. I wouldn't necessarily have to leave the upper wall parts untreated at all, they would just not be angled. So there would be ledges on top of the angled parts where I could put busts of Beetoven and Dolly Parton etc....
The control room would be off to the side, isolated.
70% is better than nothing. This will definitely still help beak up the standing waves. The other concern is flutter type echoes, but you said you're able to add other types of treatments in the upper space which would help with this (absorption, diffusion).
Be glad that I didn't use my personal picture.
I didn't want to square potential posters with nightmares.
Hum
PS: we know several hundreds different types of beer here.
At about 1 km of my home is a little café with around 270 different types. (Lots of brands and subtypes)
Eric_Desart wrote:
At about 1 km of my home is a little café with around 270 different types. (Lots of brands and subtypes)
Well, last time I visited my cousin in Utrecht (Holland) we didn't have time to go to Belgium (eventhough I wanted to go badly), but next time (probably next year) I will make sure of that....
270 types of beer....geee....I'm there
