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I got REW set up but the closest thing I have to a measurement microphone is a couple of Karma K-Micros, which I don't think qualify? I have to play around with it more... so for now we're working with anecdotal impressions. The treatment we put up has made a huge improvement, but the room is...

Looking great! Your angled front wall may be a pain when it comes to acoustics (I have the same situation), but the important thing is that it makes your room look like a spaceship cockpit. :-) That's OC R30 in all your traps?

We wanted everything in the room as white as possible (which is in no way a political statement). This proved a bit of a challenge when looking for acoustically transparent fabric, in part because we don't like felt. We ended up ordering speaker grille cloth in white from Parts Express, which...

On to sound treatment! We brought in the panels we had from our previous room and tested in a variety of locations. Instant improvement, though still a long way to go. I figured treating as much of the ceiling as I could would be worthwhile. After the headache of hanging traps with wire in...

And moved in the equipment! Wish I could have installed the sound treatment before moving in the gear for awkward-ladder-and-dust-cleanup reasons, but we wanted to get a feel for how the room sounded 'filled' before moving on to treating the space... The changing table I made 12+ years ago...

So many updates! I've been totally swamped with stuff on top of this project, so I haven't been uploading progress. Remodeling phase finished in February. For kicks we brought in my wife's guitar amp to hear it in the untreated room. So loud. Built some custom wall sconces for mood (with...

Good ideas, thanks! However I'm both loathe to lose the space especially since if I put a drywall cladding over insulation inside the room, I imagine I'd still need absorptive panels on top of that? I did consider ripping out the lath and plaster when I first saw the extent of the damage a...

Newer construction in Pittsburgh is definitely insulated better than our house... we have hot water radiators on the first two floors that do a great job, but we certainly pay for the heat! That's interesting about the 2-4k dip, and, yeah, all those ceiling angles certainly complicate things...

Yeah, the heat in the summer is worse than the cold in the winter, surprisingly. Maybe it's just that I'm hot-blooded. I like the idea of the wall panel heaters and may go down that route, we're probably sticking with all-white-all-the-time on the walls, and there's plenty of silent options...

I'm definitely putting up a lot of broadband panels, which may have some marginal impact on temperature regulation, but really the room's fine in the winter with a space heater and in the summer with a window unit AC. And we're not concerned about soundproofing--the house is distant enough from...

Nope! House was built somewhere between 1890 and 1910, real brick-clad walls with lath and plaster interiors and I'm the most recent owner who hasn't found it worthwhile to undertake the nasty task of having insulation blown in.

Thanks! Luckily/unluckily HVAC isn't an issue, since there isn't any... :). Still an interesting read, though

Hopefully this weekend I'll get to building frames for the rock wool hanging out on my porch...

Meanwhile, while the wet things have been drying, I've been working on building the desk... here's the plan: All cut up: Getting glued and screwed:

And some polyurethane... And baseboard moulding...

Hey all! Thanks for the interest, insight and suggestions... I'm still in the DIY homeowner renovation phase of this project, but very nearly to the point where I can start working on acoustics. Here's how it's been going -- plywood planks getting nailed in: Full-trowel fill and two sanding...

Building continues... Plaster repairs finished: Skim coat of plaster knocked down to match the rest of the house & two coats of primer: Paint! Some probably-pointless paper on the floor and floorboards cut and acclimating to their new home:

Demo is done, removed the built-in cabinet thing and the wainscoting. Replaced critical outlets with GFCI, as well as adding two more under the windows for baseboard heaters. Though it's been disturbingly nice for October-November, so maybe I won't ever need them? Still need to put in a...

Yeah. It's a bummer that I'm wearing a mask at home now too. :). I don't think I can do a floating floor, as it's not particularly level. The debates on nail-or-don't on all the construction forums are as heated as superchunk-vs-airgap on this one. At least using the wrong bass trap isn't...

Demo has begun! Carpet is pulled up. And looks like some lovely asbestos tile underneath... The paint on the floorboards beneath that is definitely lead, so we're leaning towards installing plywood boards over the existing tile.