John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum Archive

Haha, I'm glad you did and for your compassion and good heart here's some pics, Obi-Wan

Here's the slat wall pattern:
The slat wall and soffits almost finished. Some sanding and some putty in the screw holes and it'll be ready to varnish I couldn't resist checking what my Yamaha HS80M would look like in the soffits......simply irresistible!! Yeeeeeeeeha!!
Hopefully they'll sound just as awesome
Details of the speaker placed inside the soffit. The space between the speaker and the wood is roughly 10mm
Only 7463 to go!!!!!
All comments welcome!
Cheers
Sono

really nice work! for the monitors - make sure they are decoupled from the box (rubber, sylomer, sorbathane, insulation, neoprene pucks etc etc) and the face plate and use non-hardening caulk or soft rubber to seal it full around the edges. also make sure the monitor face is level with the baffle plate so it works properly.

Thanks for the encouragement Glenn Much appreciated....I can't believe it begins to look like a studio now!!
I'll come back to the monitors when I begin installing the gear. It was just a moment to lay back and tell the speaker: " woosh, honeypie, you sure look terrific in that blonde firewood dress....."
A small oasis in the desert, you might call it
I'll report back soon.
Thanks again for all the help and the support
Cheers
Sono

While I'm finishing the slat walls and soffits I've been working on the front cloud design too. I've come back to your original idea.
Here's a sketch of the wooden skeleton. Notice the two strips to reinforce the structure. They are also meant to separate the insulation from the lights section to allow ventilation. If that should work I would probably do the same for the three other lights.
The side indents on the light holes are to accomodate the springs that hold the lights in place.
Is there to much reflective surface? What do you reckon?
It would be made of natural pinewood and the cloth would match either the reddish or the ceiling one in the studio...........Killer!!!

Cheers
Sono

New version structurally reinforced

I finally decided to sand the slat walls and soffits woodwork. My back won't forgive me for a few weeks but the result is worth the pain (Long Live Ibuprophene!!! Yesss!!).
I should be finished this evening. It would be great to have some feedback/comments/opinions on the cloud idea before I get into building it.
More pics very soon...
Cheers
Sono

keep in mind that the exposed wood for the lighting surfaces will be reflective so i'd start with it as is and when it comes time to measure, you can adjust if needed to put some absorption on it. otherwise nice work!

Cool! But how can I add absorption later?

P.S.: anyone knows what's soft-caulk in spanish?

non-hardening caulk could also be the term. OSI SC-175 or equiv is popular.

if you find that reflections off the cloud are causing issues, you could create some small cloth covered absorption to put over (tack on) the wood bits that are problematic.

Excellent
I'm working on a lighter version of the panels with narrower light beams. I managed to get it from 22cm wide to 14cm so far. That's much closer to my very first concept sketch that was 12 cm wide.

Thanks for the caulk reference

Here's the lighter versions A and B. I have narrowed the width of the wooden beams to obtain 14 cm on the ones sustaining the light. I've also reduced the reflectant surface along the lines of the first idea. The "cross" is now two whole beams that fit in their center in a dove tail like junction that should hold the whole thing together solidly with the rest of the structure. Instead of 3.5 cm width it's now 3cm which should bring down the weight.
What do you reckon? Oh, and A or B?.....after all this mixing room is almost more yours than mine so far, so it's only fair you get to choose the reflective motive, isn't it?

Cheers
Sono

B

B it is, then
I hope I can have ready next week ...
To suspend it, just chains and hooks, right?

yeppers

Sanding, sanding, sanding, sanding, sanding, sanding, sanding, .......my hands feel like having Parkinson after 6 hours sanding....but it looks AWESOME!!! Yesterday evening I finished it and after I hoovered and cleant the whole mess I kept staring at it, my eyes filled with tears...it's so cute!
Ok, seriously now, almost ready to varnish that damn slat wall. Today I think I can finish cleaning it with white spirit to give it a first hand.

I have almost decided that asap (read as soon as I have money again...) I will get this as a console (it's actually a controller):
http://www.smartav.net/product/tango/

As usual, I have a couple questions

1-To use Tango I would probably integrate it inside the desk so that the flat surface would be level with the desk. Do you think the touchscreen (the angled one) would be a problem speakerwise?
2-Anyone has any experience with Tango?

And now onto something completely different
Any storage suggestions without destroying all the acoustic hard work? The only idea I could come up with was to place a big box (kinda like a trunk) between the couch and the rear wall to store i.e: cables and maybe some mics, but it's not a lot of space.
All ideas welcome, as usual

More pics soon!!

Cheers
Sono

depending on the equipment you have (rack and otherwise), you might make a desk for the mixer and use a cabinet in the desk for cable and mic storage. having a desk which angles up a bit to match the mixer and allowing for some rack space around the same angles should be pretty straight forward.