John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum Archive

i completes understand. what im basically trying to say is would i be able to just install only 1 face Sheetrock on the OUTSIDE of the wall, and keep the inside just empty studs so i can fill with insulation and close it off with fabric in the areas where its needed? (FOR EXAMPLE THE FRONT HALF OF THE ROOM WILL MOST LIKELY BE ABSORPTIVE)


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would i be able to just install only 1 face Sheetrock on the OUTSIDE of the wall, and keep the inside just empty studs so i can fill with insulation and close it off with fabric in the areas where its needed?

Ahhh! OK, now I understand. What you are describing is usually called "inside out" construction, where the drywall faces the wall cavity and the studs face the room. That's actually very common here on this forum, as it saves space when things are very tight, under some circumstances.

If you do it that way, you do have to be careful about over-treating the room: having too much absorption. That's nearly as bad as having too little absorption, in some respects.

THE FRONT HALF OF THE ROOM WILL MOST LIKELY BE ABSORPTIVE

If you are going to soffit-mount your speakers, then the front half of the room should be reflective, with the rear half being absorptive. That's the basis of RFZ design: using hard reflective surfaces at the front to re-direct all first reflections past the mix position towards the back of the room, where they can be absorbed and reduced in intensity, or diffused, or both. So if you want to follow the RFZ concept, then you should keep the front part mostly reflective.

- Stuart -

sorry i hit new topic instead of reply by mistake. i was thinking of half absorptive half reflective with wooden beems going across the wall for the font half of the room. i made a quick sketch.

let m know what you think about this

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sorry forgot to upload .
here is it

Yeah, that should work OK. The gaps are plenty big enough that it won't be tuned, so that's a possibility.

- Stuart -