more hair-brained wall treatment ideas...

[dymaxian]

See what you guys think of this. As in most of my posts like this, I'm pretty much just thinking out loud. Perhaps this is a viable idea, perhaps not. So tell me what your gut reaction is to this, good or bad.

I'm thinking about treatment for the side walls of a control room. I like the way my ceiling diffusion works- they're basically wave-shaped baffles made of 1x6, hanging straight down, with the wavy bottom edge cut at a 30 degree angle... I'm thinking about putting something similar on the walls. But in the wall's case, I'd have all the angled faces pointing to the back of the room. I'd probably use 2x6 and leave 1" spaces between them. I'd have wood slats hung vertically, but with their edges facing the room instead of sitting flat. These would be set against a wall build inside-out style, with 3" fiberglass blanket in the stud spaces and 1" rigid fiberglass between the studs and the slats.

So again, LF sound and some of the mids and highs would go between the slats, while the highs and mids that did hit the slat faces would be directed toward the back wall and into the absorption I'd put up there.

The serious drawback here is that I'd need a LOT of them. I could save myself a lot of trouble and just leave off the wavy part and run the slats thru the table-saw... they wouldn't diffuse vertically so much, but they'd still prevent flutter pretty efficiently. This would be the kind of thing the studio owner would do because he had the time to do it... I don't think I'd recommend this kind of thing to someone else to build. They'd think I'm nutz.

And they'd be right, but that's not the point.

Let me know what you think... thanks in advance.

Kase
www.minemusic.net