12 Degrees of Separation: More Questions

[RICK FITZPATRICK]

No time to explain. As the govenor of California says..."I'll be back"!

 

[Jack Russell]

Excellent design, Rick. Thanks again for your help. I'm sure it would be a fine way to do it, however, it would be a problem in that there would be no space to use for rehearsing. I'm in a band of three (bass (me), drums, and guitar) and our 'prime directive' is to use it for practice, recording, and mixing our own stuff. I'd rarely, if ever, use it for recording other clients, which might sound crazy. O.k., I'm crazy.

I've flirted in the past from time to time with being a 'real' studio engineer, but each time I get into it, I fall back on my first love: writing music. If I had no band, I'd probaly make my own demos and attempt to sell them as a straitforward songwriter type.

So, anyway, I really need the open space at the back.

Thanks again,
Jack the Ripper

 

[knightfly]

Punkin - square rooms are bad acoustically because you have the same modal frequencies in both axes - square rooms with same or half height ceilings are worse, because now you ALSO have the same frequencies reinforced in the VERTICAL direction - now, if you make the room ROUND, you have two INFINITE LENGTH parallel walls, PLUS the concave effect of FOCUSing sound to central locations - add to that the previously mentioned difficulty of BUILDING such a room, and it would take a special masochist to want to do this...

Jack, Fitz and others also hang out here

http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2125

and you can get more design/construction help here

http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/index.php

If you have a few DAYS to read, the first link will accelerate your learning curve by a decade or so without any of us having to re-type much - then, any followup questions will be better worded and more informed... (hint - there are better things than staggered studs)... Steve

BTW, John says 12 degrees total splay - I think it was Angelo Campanella that stated 8 degrees total was enough; yet another designer, Wes LaChot, claims 6 will do it. NONE of those is enough to accomplish RFZ monitoring, check out my illustration here, about 3/4 the way down the page -

http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=809&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=60

 

[Jack Russell]

Hey, Steve:

Thanks a ton for the links. I've been on the Sayers forum also, but my screen name there is "Bret Bluntskull", and you answered my very similar post there as well. I figured why not throw out 2 fishing lines?

I should change my screen name over there so that they are the same, huh? I didn't know there was so much cross posting going on between these forums.

Anyway, I'll read all the links if I haven't already. And thanks again for your help.

Cheers,
Jack Russell/Bret Bluntskull....