John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum Archive

Thank you for your response, Stuart. I started to answer this just before Christmas last year. Our landlord went hostile just about then, taking advantage of every legal loophole to try and squeeze a few hundred bucks more out of us each month. My focus had to change to studying landlord/tenant law and mitigating damage on a monthly basis until June 2014 when we were graciously relieved of our lease.

We have just settled in a new place after some travel and work. We are renting again with our eyes set on purchasing a house in early 2016. While the landlord in Scottsdale never had any objection to the control room build itself, I want to avoid the potential of being in any sort of dependent situation before I try to do this again.

While I have not thought much about acoustics since Christmas of last year, I am just now starting to read this forum and other sources again. I am posting solely for the purpose of following through. I think a couple of your questions should not have gone unanswered.

Soundman2020 wrote: You don't really need to build a half-box for a corner trap: you can just stack triangles of 703 in the corner, and put a fabric-covered frame in front to hide them. Ummmm..... you put slats across your bass trap? That makes it into a slot wall, not a bass trap. I'm not sure I understand the reason behind that.

The half-box was so that the fixture could be moved out of the room easily at the end of the lease. It worked quite well in that respect.

My goal was to build a slot corner. I was looking at a lot of comb filtering in the original measurements and my imagination got ahead of my understanding. I had just removed the slats and started cutting 703 when things got bad.

Soundman2020 wrote:

Curious to see the effect one corner slot wall might have on the room.

Me too! What frequencies did you tune it to?

Approx. 70-700hz. But I didn't think well enough ahead how to measure it. So I have no useful data at this point.

It is clear that I need to increase my understanding of REW and I can use this next year to experiment with that as well.

Soundman2020 wrote:The only exception is if you are trying to measure the response of a device, but you'd need a proper acoustic measurement lab to do that, not a home studio .....

Very good to know. Will save me time in the future goofing off with stuff that will not have meaningful results.

Soundman2020 wrote:I think you are just attacking thins on the wrong order!

Next time, soffit first. After baseline, and awkward but complete perusal of this thread because it pertains specifically to the directions my mind will go unguided.

Soundman2020 wrote:So I'd suggest revising your Gantt Chart, and re-scheduling things in the right order!

Had to look that up. But thanks for revising that for me!

Wow! I can't believe it's been a year since I wrote that! Time flies...

I'm sorry to hear about your landlord hassles! That must have been very frustrating, after you had already put so much work into your room. But at least you managed to get out of that, and you'll soon have a much better place that is all your own, with no landlord to cause you grief. Are you going to do anything in the temporary place that you have right now, in terms of a studio?

Either way, I'm looking forward to seeing your next studio !

- Stuart -

Time really does fly. This place we are at is unsuitable for any kind of sound work. I'm concentrating on getting new live clientele in town for the time being.

In the interim I'd like to say thanks for your dedication and Merry Christmas.

Mark