Gregwor wrote:Has anyone come up with a way to make thick treatment walls covered in fabric less "squidgy" and more resilient without compromising the absorption behind?
Do people find that the stretched fabric is strong enough of a barrier to stop menacing clients from accidentally damaging the walls e.g. picking, leaning up against, tearing, putting headstock through etc...
At a theatre located at Disney Land in California it looked like they had a metal mesh (think 1 square inch openings) all over the walls probably for this exact reason. Personally, I will probably just include a note in my studio contract asking people not not lean against the fabric covered walls. It is a real concern but hopefully it never becomes an issue. . .
Greg
Good tip Greg, I also had the idea of using a metal mesh but behind a layer of Dacron and fabric, so that it is not visible, seems about the only reasonable way of achieving it other than using slats everywhere, which I don't know if I want on my rear wall.
Seems Disney land probably took a leaf out of the BBC's book and built a version of the absorbers found here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/publications/r ... OACQKqLKgg
Now that I have finished all the temporary vents I've been making my ceiling hangers better. It's clear that Homasote does not keep it's form very well at all if not properly supported at anything other than a completely vertical angle when hanging, and even though they are not that heavy they seem to bow under their own weight.
Ideally I would like to have used chipboard or ply for the hangers, just like Newell does, but I didn't want to add extra weight to my ceiling so I decided to continue using the Homasote but strengthen it with some thin scrap battens I had. This seems to be just enough to stop them bowing, but also keep them lightweight.
I'm also going to make them easy to take down if I ever need to in the future (like when I build my outer shell and can put back the extra insulation behind the hangers without risking condensation again) so I am going to screw eye hooks into the hangers and the ceiling and use little carabiners to hang them. Just waiting for the carabiners to arrive and then I can get on with putting them back up again.
I have an exciting and slightly inconvenient delivery arriving tomorrow; A very much in need of TLC Trident 80C console. I bought it a few months ago since the guy was going to just throw it in a skip, it needs a huge amount of work as it has suffered water damage and most of it is corroded. The work is not the issue though, it's the fact that I can no longer afford to keep it in storage, and the only place I have room for it right now is the unfinished studio.
Ideally I would have liked to have got the room to the stage where it just has basic treatment, but empty, so that I can measure the room. I was almost at that stage when I noticed the water dripping down from the ceiling, so had to stop everything and sort that out.
Now the floor is down and the basic treatment is almost complete but I'll have a big console in the room! So, not too sure what to do about that at the moment. Any ideas? I can still measure the room, but would have been nice to have it empty first.
And to top things off, the cheap calibration mic that I decided to risk buying doesn't have a calibration file and doesn't seem to even work!
so I'll need to wait until I can get a decent one in order to make the first measurements. Any recommendations? I was looking at the Dayton Audio EMM-6.
My plan right now is to get the basic treatment in and cover it with some removable frames covered in Dacron, take some measurements and then move the gear in. Then, gradually add the extra treatment and build the speaker wall. The reason being, firstly I do not know what extra treatment it will need without measuring, and secondly I just cannot decide on what design criteria I want to follow in terms of the environment. I'm working on 4 different designs at the moment which I'll upload soon, and then I'll make a decision based on room measurements and feedback from you guys, and whichever one makes most sense to me. It will help me decide once I have a basic environment to work in, so I can test out different layouts and workflow ideas and build the treatment and wiring layout around that.
The other reason is I just don't have enough money coming in right now to do much! I think we're all in the same boat with that one though.
That's all for now,
Paul