Machine Room slot resonator

Extreme Mixing · Post by **Extreme Mixing** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 6:29 pm

I have a bit of an unusual control room. it's about 17'x18'. The ceiling is slanted 14' on the hi side and 8' on the low side. I have treated the room with some ASC corner traps in the 14 ft corners, floor to ceiling. On the big wall, there are two 9X11' rugs with sound board behind them attached to the wall. I also have several large pieces of 1 1/2" OC 705 on the side walls, and drapes on the back wall with sonex between the curtains and the wall.

My "machine room" is a box on the big wall of the control room about, 56"deep x 7 feet long and it's 48 inches tall. It has solid core doors on the ends to allow access to the gear and fairly silent airflow to keep it cool. All th computer stuff goes in there--a G4, Pro tools expansion chassis, and hard drives, in addition to storage space for some rack gear I'm not using now. The "room" is framed with 2x4s and has two layers of sound board on the front, covered with fabric and 1 layer on the inside. The cavity in the walls are stuffed with sonex. I use the top of it like a meter bridge for my speakers and a tv set (the top is carpeted). My computer screen is mounted on an LCD arm on the front of the box and that gets me the right distance from the speakers to mix. It works great! It got rid of all those noisey fans and all of my cables are very short.

My question is, would this box become a more efficiant bass trap if I add slats to it and turn it into a slot resonator? The room sounds pretty great now, and I hate to change anything, but I was just thinking...

You guys are the experts. What do you think?

Steve

knightfly · Post by **knightfly** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 7:50 pm

Slot resonators react to narrower bands of frequencies than straight absorption, and may color the sound of your room because of that. They are usually better at removing specific ranges of problem frequencies, such as the 300 hZ that's the primary mode of a kick drum, etc -

Two old and trite sayings come to mind here -

1. If it SOUNDS good, it IS good -

and

2. If it ain't broke, don't FIX it...

Now, of course if you don't have enough REAL problems to fix or you're just bored...

Steve

Extreme Mixing · Post by **Extreme Mixing** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 6:06 pm

Thanks for the straight talk and for keeping me out of trouble.

I am busier now, so I should be OK.

Steve