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Reed Robins
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Hi Everyone,
I'm a new member, although I've been reading a lot of the posts about the building of bass traps. I'm currently renovating my studio, and I want to get the bass a little more under control.
The room is on the smallish side about 8.5' x 15' with 12' ceilings. The console is positioned widthways in the studio, which isn't ideal, but that's the way it is. The whole design goes around that. There's only one way to fit the stuff in the room.
There is a window which is behind the console (you face it when in the "sweet spot"). Also not ideal, but I do have curtains on the windows which I recently put there, and they seemed to help the stereo imaging a lot. There is a lot of sonex on the walls, which makes it a teenie bit dead, but the floors are hard wood, and there are hard surfaces in a couple of other spots in the room which I've included to liven up the sound to an acceptable amount.
here's a picture of the room: http://www.macintyremusic.com/pix/studio1.jpg. This is before I renovated. The argosy is still there, but the windows, as said, have curtains. The place is totally beautiful now, with kind of a "meditative" vibe, and I spray painted the sonex, but I still want to hear better bass.
That blue cabinet is gone, as is some of the sonex in the spot you see.
One thing I did long ago, which really helped the room immensely was to hang a splay in front of the console, so that the ceiling is not at a right angle at the front of the console. I goes from about 9' height to 12' in a gradual curve. That is plywood with sonex lining it. unfortunately, you can't see the splay in the photo.
Now most of what I'm hearing is great, with the exception that: the bass in the lower octaves is much greater in level when out of the listening position. I have a subwoofer that can't be heard too well until you slip to the side, and then the sound gets mighty sweet!
I'm assuming I'm getting standing waves which are colliding in the listening position.
So what I'm planning to do as per the discussion is get some 703. and hang it on the corners of the ceiling and the room corners to eliminate some of the standing waves. Even after reading a lot of the discussion, I have a couple of questions which I'd appreciate your help on, if you can spare the time. My apologies for any repetition in the conversation.
1) I can't find a picture of this stuff anywhere on the internet. Can you prime and paint it? I'd love to know what it looks like. Anyone know of a link? I can't even find it on the owens corning website. I hear everybody talking here about covering it with fabric...
2) I know this has probably been covered, but if I hang it at a 45 degree angle from the wall/ceiling, it's OK to hang it without sealing it against the wall? That's the impression I'm getting, and would be easier from my perspective.
3) Is anyone aware of a place in New York City where it can be gotten/ordered from? I'm coming up empty so far...
Thanks a million,
-Reed
I'm a new member, although I've been reading a lot of the posts about the building of bass traps. I'm currently renovating my studio, and I want to get the bass a little more under control.
The room is on the smallish side about 8.5' x 15' with 12' ceilings. The console is positioned widthways in the studio, which isn't ideal, but that's the way it is. The whole design goes around that. There's only one way to fit the stuff in the room.
There is a window which is behind the console (you face it when in the "sweet spot"). Also not ideal, but I do have curtains on the windows which I recently put there, and they seemed to help the stereo imaging a lot. There is a lot of sonex on the walls, which makes it a teenie bit dead, but the floors are hard wood, and there are hard surfaces in a couple of other spots in the room which I've included to liven up the sound to an acceptable amount.
here's a picture of the room: http://www.macintyremusic.com/pix/studio1.jpg. This is before I renovated. The argosy is still there, but the windows, as said, have curtains. The place is totally beautiful now, with kind of a "meditative" vibe, and I spray painted the sonex, but I still want to hear better bass.
That blue cabinet is gone, as is some of the sonex in the spot you see.
One thing I did long ago, which really helped the room immensely was to hang a splay in front of the console, so that the ceiling is not at a right angle at the front of the console. I goes from about 9' height to 12' in a gradual curve. That is plywood with sonex lining it. unfortunately, you can't see the splay in the photo.
Now most of what I'm hearing is great, with the exception that: the bass in the lower octaves is much greater in level when out of the listening position. I have a subwoofer that can't be heard too well until you slip to the side, and then the sound gets mighty sweet!
I'm assuming I'm getting standing waves which are colliding in the listening position.
So what I'm planning to do as per the discussion is get some 703. and hang it on the corners of the ceiling and the room corners to eliminate some of the standing waves. Even after reading a lot of the discussion, I have a couple of questions which I'd appreciate your help on, if you can spare the time. My apologies for any repetition in the conversation.
1) I can't find a picture of this stuff anywhere on the internet. Can you prime and paint it? I'd love to know what it looks like. Anyone know of a link? I can't even find it on the owens corning website. I hear everybody talking here about covering it with fabric...
2) I know this has probably been covered, but if I hang it at a 45 degree angle from the wall/ceiling, it's OK to hang it without sealing it against the wall? That's the impression I'm getting, and would be easier from my perspective.
3) Is anyone aware of a place in New York City where it can be gotten/ordered from? I'm coming up empty so far...
Thanks a million,
-Reed
