Hi everyone...can you guys help me with my space?

[35chevy]

Ok.....so I've spent some time working on my place and I figured i'd see what you guys think so far. The lamp has got to go, I'll be replacing it with a lava lamp soon LOL. The speakers in the corners are going away and the pile of useless stuff around the drums will hopefully go away over the next week or so. This was my storage building and now I have to find somewhere to put this stuff. I've got to move the stuff on the walls and get curtains to go over the A/C and windows. I guess my next project will be building superchunk corner bass traps. I guess I am going to use roxul "safe n sound" unless something changes. I have called everywhere I can think of looking for rigid 703/705 or roxul rockboard locally and I'm out of luck. I called owens corning and got the name of the only dealer anywhere near me and they gave me a price higher than the internet prices. The only place I can find safe n sound is lowes and it will cost me $95+ tax for enough to build four corners and have one piece left over. Considering enough 703 to do the corners will cost over double that plus who knows what shipping, I guess it's not hard to fugure out which way to go. I guess next I will figure out something to go above the drums, add different lighting, and fill the 2'x4' holes where the fluorescents are with roxul and cover with cloth. Do you think that will be suffiecient for ceiling treatment? What about the windows? I thought about having some white shipping blankets sewn the size of the window and hang them behind the blinds. Also, What should I do with the monitors? Thanks for the ideas so far.
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[jimmys69]

Where do you live?

[35chevy]

Where do you live?

South Alabama

[35chevy]

I think you have not to change any more but the sofa should replace with the sound stereo and all the other things are ok on their places.
And the second option set up the sound system on other room

Could you repeat that please?

[jimmys69]

South Alabama

Bummer. SPI is where I get my Roxul cheap. Nearest one to you is in Atlanta.

[35chevy]

Bummer. SPI is where I get my Roxul cheap. Nearest one to you is in Atlanta.

Atlanta is like 4 hrs. from me.

[jimmys69]

Could you repeat that please?

Ignore that. It is a cyborg. Will be sent to oblivion shortly.

[jimmys69]

Atlanta is like 4 hrs. from me.

Yeah, you are better off with the Safe and Sound from Lowes then. Just filling the holes where the lighting is, will not be enough to control all the reflections in the room, though keep in mind, there is no 'right' way to treat any room. It depends on what you are trying to achieve in it. For your mixing position, there are more typical plans (as I have given the basics of) that are pretty much standard. How you deal with a multi purpose room, is more based upon trial and error. Testing your room with a program like REW, is probably the best way to determine how treatments are performing. Though your ears are the final decision maker. Take steps to help the problem areas, and make additions later to fine tune the room. Moving the desk was the first step. Getting your monitors off of it, or even building/purchasing a new one without the bulk, would be 'my' next step. Getting the monitors on stands that will not resonate is your best bet there.

[Capriccio]

Get your monitors up to ear level.

[35chevy]

Get your monitors up to ear level.

I plan to do that. Haven't decided exactly what to do there yet, maybe buy stands or maybe build some. I'm still working on cleaning out clutter and gathering stuff to build bass traps and such. I have 24 pieces of roxul ordered. I can't wait to get the corner traps done.

I need some ideas on the area around the drums....I have just enough room to put a 24" corner bass trap in there, but I'm not sure how well everything is going to end up sounding with the garage door there. Also i need ideas what to put above the drums and retain use of the garage door. I don't mind covering the light or even removing it, but if I put something directly onto the ceiling it can't be thicker than two inches because that's all I have between the door and the ceiling with the door open. Another idea is to drop everything down below the garage door rails. That would leave a 6' space between the top of whatever i put up there and the ceiling. What would you guys do here? Here's a current pic, I've done some much needed cleaning today and got more junk out of the way...

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