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Hey Lee, Two pieces of advice. 1. Buy F. Alton Everest's "Master Handbook of Acoustics" it has a ton of information about acoustics and soundproofing and tells you how to do all of the things without buying expensive products. 2. Spend some time at John Sayer's site...

Hey Dan, For your problem with 500hz, you can build a box about 6" deep and put R19 fiberglass (not 703) with the facing out. This creates a broadband Helmholtz resonator tuned with absorption numbers that are approximately: 125 (.4) 250 (.8) 500 (1) 1000 (.6) 2000 (.4)...

The designs that I've seen have about a 4ft space at the back of the room with a variety of hangers and walls made out of different materials to absorb all frequencies, and a variety of hangers on the side walls and ceiling. Has anyone ever been in a room that was designed like this? What...

Isn't the basic idea of a Hidley "Non Environment" room, that the front wall and floor be totally reflective and the back wall, side walls and ceiling be totally absorbent? If this is the case, there would be no mode interaction, because reflections were totally absorbed. That would make the...

Where can you get rockwool panels? What manufacturer? Eric

Hey, where in Home Depot did you find the fiberglass board? They keep on telling me that they don't cary anything like that. What do they call it, and do you happen to still have the SKU # for the product. Thanks, Eric

Learn about room acoustics. That one thing can help your recordings more than you can possible imagine. There are many good references on this forum. Another place to look is a site by someone who I consider our resident expert, John Sayers...

Thanks John. I may be 40 years old, but that 10 year old kid who always says, "why?" is still lurking within!!

John, what do you think makes a good sounding drum room? From looking at the drum room on the Left Bank site I wasn't able to see any treatment . Is it all hangers in the ceiling? What sort of absorption am I looking for? By the way I absolutely love the way that control room looks. The...

Hey guys, I just finished reading a book called "Project Studios, a more professional approach" by Philip Newell. He describes a control room he refers to as a "non-environment" room. This room was also developed by a guy named Tom Hidley from what I understand. Does anyone have any...

You realize that those pictures are cruel and unusual punishment don't you!!

You need someone better educated than me to help you. Maybe a power conditioner? Those are my two best guesses, I'm sure others can do better.

Elvis, are you using a computer? In the past I've had trouble with interactions with my computer monitors and my guitars.

John, I've looked through many of your designs and I've done some reading about acoustics and I'd like to know how you decide the angles to use in your designs, and how to figure out the room modes using those designs. I'd like to see the math if it is available, or the source to find some...

Dual monitors are definitely the way to go!!!!!

Good point, well taken!!!

Thanks for the idea Todzilla, but I think I would like the rooms to do multiple duty and do the home theatre along with the control room. So I think it would be better to be attached to the house. I also have to still worry about resale value, so if I can convince future buyers that it is a...

Thanks for the advice. I'm in the position where I'm moving from a place with very high real estate value to a place with much lower so I will have extra money to spend, probably in the neighborhood of $60,000, if I keep the price down of the house. , I can get about $200,000 for my current...

Hey guys I've been reading these posts for a couple of months and gained much valuable information. Thanks. I've also read " The Master Handbook of Acoustics","Build a Small Recording Studio From Scratch", and John Cooper's book. I've also check'd out all of John Sayers' stuff on the web and...