Hey all,
I'm in the process of designing my control room using one of the ratios suggested in Rod's book (1:1.40:1.90). Since I'll be building from scratch, I was considering splaying the E and W walls to help control flutter echo. Would this defeat the purpose of the suggested room ratios altogether? Thanks,
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In order to maintain the modal distribution inherent in such "golden" ratios, I would make the AVERAGE length width and height of your room conform to the ratios;
For example, (keeping it simple) if your room were to be 10 x 14 x 19 feet it would meet the ratios you mentioned; if you were to splay opposing walls by approx. 6 degrees you would have close to 1 foot in 10 splay; so I would take that 1.9 feet ( 10% of 19 feet) per side and make one end of the room 11 or 12" UNDER 14 feet wide and the other end of the room 11 or 12" OVER 14 feet wide. This would make your room 19 feet long, 10 feet high and 13 feet wide at the narrow end, 15 feet wide at the wide end.
Don't forget the ceiling; since you can't slope the floor very well, you'll need to make your ceiling slope 2 feet in 10, putting the low end over your mix position and the high end behind you. This would make your room height just under 2 feet LOWER than the nominal 10 feet at the mix position end, and that much TALLER than nominal 10 feet at the rear.
You would probably still get some flutter between the parallel front and rear walls, but these will likely be pretty well absorbed (along with corners) to control bass anyway, so that will also kill any flutter component... Steve
For example, (keeping it simple) if your room were to be 10 x 14 x 19 feet it would meet the ratios you mentioned; if you were to splay opposing walls by approx. 6 degrees you would have close to 1 foot in 10 splay; so I would take that 1.9 feet ( 10% of 19 feet) per side and make one end of the room 11 or 12" UNDER 14 feet wide and the other end of the room 11 or 12" OVER 14 feet wide. This would make your room 19 feet long, 10 feet high and 13 feet wide at the narrow end, 15 feet wide at the wide end.
Don't forget the ceiling; since you can't slope the floor very well, you'll need to make your ceiling slope 2 feet in 10, putting the low end over your mix position and the high end behind you. This would make your room height just under 2 feet LOWER than the nominal 10 feet at the mix position end, and that much TALLER than nominal 10 feet at the rear.
You would probably still get some flutter between the parallel front and rear walls, but these will likely be pretty well absorbed (along with corners) to control bass anyway, so that will also kill any flutter component... Steve
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