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Plans and things, layout, style, where do I put my near-fields etc.

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fenderbender
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newbie help

Post by fenderbender »

Your site came highly recommended through the recpit forum. I've been home recording for about 8 years. I've done some band demos in the last couple of years and everyone so far is extremely happy with the results and is telling me I should get serious. Trouble is, it takes me forever to get a decent mixdown, mainly because of my room. I usually end up going trial and error and playing the tracks on several diffent stereos and locations till I get a mix that sounds good on all.

Here's a description of my room. BTW if anyone knows of any good shareware drawing tools I could probably whip a diagram. My space is a stand-alone 16' x 16' converted tool shop. Roof is 8' in center. Ceiling is slanted on both sides. Door is off center on an end wall. Floor is carpeted plywood. Whole structure sits on railroad ties. I live in the country so noise leakage is not a serious issue, but bothers the family a little.

I currently have my near-fields sitting on my large office style desk, centered between the two end walls, speaker faces are 6' from wall and sloped ceiling behind me. Far feilds are in the opposite corners. My noggin is positioned in an equlateral triangle for both sets of speakers. Console and rack etc are to my left. I've egg cartons on one of the end walls and these purple fruit carton thingies (made from the same stuff as egg cartons) on the ceiling. If you've guessed that I don't know the first thing about acoustic treatment, your right :oops: .

Any ideas what I can do with this mess? I know it's kinda tight, but if it's at all possible I'd like to end up with at least 1 isolation room big enough for a drum kit, and maybe a small vox booth. Is it possible in room this size?

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Post by John Sayers »

You can download a trial version of smartdraw from www.smartdraw.com for a drawing program that is easy to use.

So you have a room 16' x 16' x 8' - all divisable by 8 - 4 etc. That's the first Bad :)

Do a search further back in this forum for the 20' x 20' thread and look at the designs offered in that thread - they could be applicable in your case.:)

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