Small Garage into Control Room for mixing DIY
Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 11:23 pm
Hi all!
This is my first post on this forum, although i have been reading a lot
End of June me and my little family are finally moving into our own house, that has a small one car garage to it.
That meaning it will be for me to use as a control room. Now to the specs and the possible problems/questions:
The room size is:
2,5meters high (8,3ft)
3,3m wide (11ft)
5m long (16ft)
The walls are cheap particle board from the 80's and the floor is concrete.
My plans are to put in a carpet covering the dirty concrete floor, ofc it will also absorb highs and mids alot. To counteract this, i was planing on building helmholz resonator-type ceiling mounted bass absorbers, and hit the sidewalls with approx 8 squaremeters of wideband absorbtion panels (ALL DIY). This was according to a book that i am reading, where they are building a similar size studio.
My questions are concerning the bass absorption. Are the counteracting ceiling panels a good idea? so far i had only heard about the corner traps to be used in small room bass control. My goal is to make the room as good as possible with a diy approach. Mixing is the sole purpose of the room. Tired of lockouts for small projects. I typed in the room measurements into BobGolds.com room mode calculator, and there seems to be a nasty bumb at around 65Hz. Do not wish to have to bother with that in my mixes
Thanks in advance!
This is my first post on this forum, although i have been reading a lot
End of June me and my little family are finally moving into our own house, that has a small one car garage to it.
That meaning it will be for me to use as a control room. Now to the specs and the possible problems/questions:
The room size is:
2,5meters high (8,3ft)
3,3m wide (11ft)
5m long (16ft)
The walls are cheap particle board from the 80's and the floor is concrete.
My plans are to put in a carpet covering the dirty concrete floor, ofc it will also absorb highs and mids alot. To counteract this, i was planing on building helmholz resonator-type ceiling mounted bass absorbers, and hit the sidewalls with approx 8 squaremeters of wideband absorbtion panels (ALL DIY). This was according to a book that i am reading, where they are building a similar size studio.
My questions are concerning the bass absorption. Are the counteracting ceiling panels a good idea? so far i had only heard about the corner traps to be used in small room bass control. My goal is to make the room as good as possible with a diy approach. Mixing is the sole purpose of the room. Tired of lockouts for small projects. I typed in the room measurements into BobGolds.com room mode calculator, and there seems to be a nasty bumb at around 65Hz. Do not wish to have to bother with that in my mixes
Thanks in advance!