John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum Archive

Okay, I was thinking about verticly skewing the walls in my "would be" 22'Lx15'x9'6" control room.

I was going to do this by just slaping on a diagnoly cut 2x6 or 2x4 onto the existing bare studs and sheet rocking over it. But couldn't I just make the walls the usual regular way (90 degrees strait up) and build movable, self supporting angled wall covers all the way down the wall? If this new Idea works what material do you think I should cover my movable wall covers with? More sheet rock or maybe plywood? The one thing about these is that they would be hallow, I don't know if that would trap different sounds unequally, making a worse room sound.

I'm just thinking that I could play around more with the shape of the room more then and also use these wall covers to seperate the sound of instruments too.

Anyone see what i'm talking about?

You know, theres not really a whole lot of people here. I posted this ten days ago and its still relatively close to the top of the forum.

Hi Mongoo,

Why moveable panels? In order for them to work at low frequencies they will need to be fairly heavy and stiff - like a wall. So, they're really not going to be easy to move around. If there is a problem with disturbing the existing walls, you might just be better off building smaller panel traps.

Thomas