John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum Archive

Bare with me here, I just got in after a couple of glasses of pino grigio and I'm a little loopie..

In a live room of the size I have (roughly 15'X16'), I see some designs here with live end and dead end, or a general absorption/diffusion all around in the construction. What is there to consider in the wall design of the live room? I suppose the type of music desired to track will have an impact, but with so many music styles out there and the need to make a living, is there a general starting point of what you want to start with to have an all purpose roon that you can tune with gobos and other removeable treatments. It 's funny that my music choice would be rooted acoustic music with lots of meaning in deep mood and lyrics, I'm a born again Hippie! 31 years young with a deep heart, but I finished some tracking for a signed heavy-metal band and will probably get some clients from them.... The summmary: In the situation I am in, needing a space that can be a chamelion to various styles of music with the space I have, Is it better to have a live end and a dead end, or a somewhat tame area that I can tune with moveable treatments to suit the client's style of music? Thanks again for reading the ramblin... I need another round!

cheers!

Tom

Tom, we're all "in the woods" at one point or another - could you redo your profile with a real location?

AS to live rooms, flexible is almost ALWAYS better - it's hard to beat the flexibility of a few hard/soft gobo's, along with (at least) the two opposing corners treated with diagonal absorption... Steve

Hi Steve,

I really do live in the woods. In fact, the trees in my yard are 60- 100' tall. One came down last year during a wind storm and clipped my house 1 month after I moved in.

I remember reading about corner traps and seeing pictures. From what I remember, there is two different ways.

1 703 cut into flat triangles and glued together.

2 703 cut and glued together to make a triangular cavity, sometimes stuffed with insulation.

When you say opposing corners I assume you mean say the N.E. corner and S.E. corner instead of the N.E. and S.W. corner.

Tom

Yeah, I should have used the term "adjacent" rather than "opposing", sorry - however, in addition to the two corners (minimum) the portable treatments will come in handy - remember, any sound above a couple hundred hZ, when "fired" into a 90 degree corner, will reflect back exactly parallel to the incident sound - this can cause phasing/comb filtering problems in a recording room when micing something too close to a corner, so a gobo you can break things up with will always be an option to try... Steve