John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum Archive

I'm building my room with soffits to encase my speakers.

Question: The soffit is backing to the vocal booth, but inbetween the soffit and the the vocal booth is going to be two walls so no sound can travel into the vocal booth.

Would you recommed this? or would you just get rid of the whole soffit idea?

That is how most of them are built, the 2 leafs dividing the control room from the vocal booth act as the sound trap between the 2 rooms soffits or not.

So in plain english you will be fine so long as you build according to the lessons in this forum double leaf system, etc.....

You would be amazed atr how much sound is trapped between those 2 leafs.

Bryan Giles

thanks for the reply! but a friend of mine said that i would not get a true bass responce because all the bass would be trapped inside of the two walls???

Is that a true statement?? (my speakers have a rear portal for bass)

Thanks again!

I have a pair of Mackie 824's with a rea passive radiator. My mixes come out pretty true to me

Barefoot can explain the theary of this better than me. All I know is that it works and my mixes come out RIGHT.

What I mix is what i get when i walk out the door.

Bryan Giles

wallsstreet wrote: ... that i would not get a true bass responce because all the bass would be trapped inside of the two walls???

(my speakers have a rear portal for bass)

hi wallstreet,

seems that this could be a problem since FWIK rear ported monitors arent´t the first choice when it comes to soffit mounting. so your friend might be right in a way. otherwise soffit mounting a front ported design would be o.k.!

sorry for the bad news!

fretless

Hey Fret, wallstreet had a chance to come down to my Studio and listen to My Mackies (rear ported passive radiator) and see how they perform n soffits.

Bryan Giles

ok, ok i´m shutting up already! seems that i´ve been a little quick at drawing the gun - no offense meant!

... i just handed over what i had heard before in this matter. now after reading a little more - especially from barefoot - i do understand better and see that soffiting rear ported monitors does work when there´s taken care!

i´m sure the mackies perform beautifully!

fretless

Hey fret, never any offense.

Although I know I can be pretty offensive at times. LOL

I took a risk when we were all debating this last year and said what the heck..Threw mine in the soffits, set the params right and Voila Great sounding speakers. And great translateable mixes.

Bryan - Did you have problems with the montiros overheating? I remember reading another thread where someone had their 824's soffited and had overheating problems. I think they had to put fans in the cavities behind the soffit or something.

Yeah that was another guy. i suggested he put 120mm computer fans back there from silenx (cuz they are really really quiet to circulate some air. i ahev not had those problems unless I pumped the monitors at 100+dbA for more than an hour or so.