HSG Projects? Free T-Shirt?

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I have added a new page to my website entitled" Your Project Page" (http://mysite.ncnetwork.net/resqg90a/id54.html).
If you have built one of my DIY projects and have some photos of it, let me know and I will have you write a few comments and then post those and your photos on "Your Project Page".
I may also send you a "Home Studio Nation" T-Shirt ;)
CHECK OUT MATT'S DESK AND HIS COMMENTS. HE GOT A T-SHIRT TOO! :D
BG/HSG
 
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Good of you to offer plans, advice, etc... I like your OC703 mounting system in particular. It puts them off the walls, which extends the low end of their frequency absorption.

I'm not sure I agree with some of your advice, however. Your statement that you "don't want opposing walls in your studio to be similar or mirror images of each other?" A lot of studio designers put great effort into ensuring lateral symmetry. And your monitor stands don't feature much mass, which is kind of a hallmark of monitor stands, so as to reduce unwanted resonances.

Just my take...
 
Todzilla said:
I'm not sure I agree with some of your advice, however. Your statement that you "don't want opposing walls in your studio to be similar or mirror images of each other?" A lot of studio designers put great effort into ensuring lateral symmetry.
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Can you resolve this for me. I hear rooms should have symmetry one sentence and then no parallel walls the next. Explain these relationships to room acoustics PLEASE! :confused: Thanks.
 
Erockrazor said:
Can you resolve this for me. I hear rooms should have symmetry one sentence and then no parallel walls the next. Explain these relationships to room acoustics PLEASE! :confused: Thanks.
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First of all, it should be noted that symmetry does not equate to parallel walls. Folks who can afford it, often design control rooms to have walls that splay outward, say 10% or more, such that each front corner is a 100 degree angle, leaving the back wall larger than the front. These splayed walls are also symmetrical, yet not parallel.

Since designing and building splayed walls is expensive (modern construction has optimized economies of scale around 90 degree angles), many of us do the best we can with parallel walls. For tracking rooms, symmetry is not important, and can even encourage bad resonances to build up. For control rooms, the same build up of frequencies is also bad, but more important is the predictability of the listening environment. Asymmetrical listening environments (control rooms) tend to blur mixes in unpredictable ways.

You won't find many high-end studios whose control rooms aren't symmetrical, at least up to the listening positions.
 
Thanks for clearing this up for me. Today, I found myself thinking about what I said and it completely made sense .. kinda felt goofy for asking. But your answers made it crystal clear! :) Thanks again..
 
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