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Hello all! This is my first forum post! I started examining this forum only two weeks back and have much much more to read.

I’m Gayan, from Sri Lanka, and am contemplating putting up a decent rehearsal space/mixing room/live room in the near future. Glenn Fricker of SMG sent me this way.

In the meantime, I wanted the valued opinion regarding this studio I recently visited for band rehearsal (heavy metal group).

It was a rectangular room measuring roughly 14x16 feet, 8 feet high. The walls were entirely constructed with laterite bricks. They are roughly textured, 9” thick bricks that are freely available in Sri Lanka and fairly cheap. 6 bass traps were strategically placed and wow, that was possibly the most balanced room I’ve ever had the pleasure to play in.

I hope the photo is clear.

What do you think?

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... 618&type=3

Here is a link of the photo. Apparently 500kb is the maximum upload size. My photo file size is too large.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Hi Gayan. Welcome!

I started examining this forum only two weeks back and have much much more to read.

Excellent! There's a LOT of information here, and it does take time to read it all, and learn it all.

am contemplating putting up a decent rehearsal space/mixing room/live room in the near future.

Great! Please do start a thread for that, when you are ready, and post your initial design, and your goals, and questions.

The walls were entirely constructed with laterite bricks. ... that was possibly the most balanced room I’ve ever had the pleasure to play in.

That's nice looking brick, and yes if you use it CORRECTLY in your studio, it can help to make it sound good. But pretty much ANY building material can be used for the same purpose. People build studios from concrete, brick, plywood, MDF, drywall, stone, etc. and they all sound good, if done properly. Everything can be used to good effect in a studio.

It's not so much "what" you use as "how" you use it.

So that brick alone is not the reason why that room sounds good. It is the brick, along with the dimensions of the room, and the treatment of the room: they all work together to make the room sound good. On the other hand, it is very possible to build a similar room from the same brick, and it turns out to sound terrible! That's what studio design is all about: using the materials, dimensions, and treatment to get your room sounding the way it is supposed to.

They are roughly textured, 9” thick bricks that are freely available in Sri Lanka and fairly cheap.

If they are inexpensive, easily available, thick, and massive (heavy), then that would be a good candidate for you to use to build your studio. But it's not just the brick alone that will make it sound good.

My photo file size is too large.

You can use any image editor to make it smaller:
- Stuart -