Acoustic Treatment for my studio, need help.

[bolehnggak]

Hi,

I'm just joining this list. I'm currently building my studio, which is 80% completed, only the ceiling hasn't being built yet. It's not big but not very small either. Due to the shape of the space, I built it just like the picture I attached.
The walls are plastered brick walls. Except for the blue lines, they were supposed to be wood panel partitions. Any suggestion where should I put some acoustic treatment, e.g. slot resonators, rockwools covered with burlaps, bass traps, etc.?
Any suggestion are highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Ari

 

[Todzilla]

Wow, that's a nice design. Do you have an acoustical engineer consulting you? Before anyone ventures to position materials, it would be nice to know:

1) What kind of rooms are you going for? Lively? anechoic?

2) How tall are the ceilings?

3) What's your budget?

Offhand, I'd say you will need a lot of bass-trapping, as your masonry walls are going to send a lot of low-end around. Given the odd shapes of your spaces (which are probably going to be a boon) it might be difficult to predict modal problems, which can drive the specifics of trap placement, etc... Rather, you may want to do some general broad-band absorption and be prepared to measure the resulting space and add more frequency specific trapping as you near completion.

Good luck. We want pictures.

 

[bolehnggak]

Well, I design it based on many articles and other designs, and I observe lots of chats at the recording studio design forum at www.johnlsayers.com. Although I'm not really sure that I did the right design, since I have no experience in studio building with proper acoustic treatment.
The ceilings above the control room and small booth are 2.5m tall, and the bigger studio is 3m tall.
If possible, I'm going to make the booth anechoic, and the big studio live, but maybe with variable absorption panel/reflection panel so I can make it dead or live according to the needs. I've seen some designs implemented hinged panels, which when they're closed they provide absorption, and when they're open they reflects sound.
So, any suggestion?

Ari