John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum Archive

Need help with Control Room.
walls, at this time, can not be changed, but in the future, some help might be needed.

Thank you so much,

Zach

I tried to upload the bmp, but it didn't upload.

I look into it tomorrow.

-Zach

Hopefully this works.

Thanks,

-Zach

yeah - that's a wierd shaped control room
Initially I'd line the whole wall to the left of the console totally with 703 and see how it sounds.

cheers
john

Thanks for the reply so far, thank you, thank you, thank you.


Behind each wall in the main room ( except btwn the main and control ) is bead board (we furred out the poured concrete walls one inch every 16 inches). Then the room walls itself is soundstop. It was really dead sounding. Then we put, every 16 inches, furring strips on top of the bead board, going vertical. The ceiling (which is 91") is done the same way, but above it is 10" of blown in insulation. The furring strips go criss cross in a + shape. All the corners are trimed out also. So it is a mix of sound stop and fur (type of wood used) geo'd thru out the room. Then we caulk everywhere fur and soundstop met. Then we painted it all, which, unexpectedly (and in a cool way) warped the sound stop a small, little bit creating non-flat pannels.

The floor, also being concrete (if you haven't already figured it out, this is a basement studio) we layed down some tight knit, almost burbur like, carpet on the floor.

The control room has a floating floor with the wall facing the main room and the ceiling just like the main room. The rest of the walls are painted drywall with regular insulation behind it.

Thanks for reading,

-Zach :jazzman:

I didn't quite understand the furring treatment but I assume it's bright surfaces??

cheers
john

The outside "furring" treatments were a cosmedic (sp???) idea as opposed to sound wise. It was to cover were all the joint met when putting up the soundstop board. Though it does give some little reflex here and there.

The room is brighter that when it wasn't painted. But I think more of it as clearer sounding, instead of duller sounding. The room sounds "bigger" then it is, to me at least. But there isnt alot of reverb/slap echo stuff going on. And that's with the room empty. Wen you have a rock band in there with all there gear and their bodies and gobos up for a little iso ( I like bleed), Musicians like the sound of the room.

I sound like I am defending myself, I hope I don't come aross as an a$$.


Sorry if I do. I swear I am a really nice guy

Thanks again,
-Zach

I'm sure you are I was referring to the control room which I assumed was your problem room.

cheers
john

figured that out after I wrote that. sleepy...