Control room decisions????

[LemonTree]

I've posted about this over at John's site but it can't hurt to post here too. Whether to go with a sliding patio door or a door and window between control & drum room. Patio door means more expense while door and window means non symetrical mixing position.

Here's the 2 designs I've come up with still leaving me room to swing a kitten in.

Room size 12' x 8'6 x 7' high

I'm starting to pull my hair out. Going with the sliding door is gonna cost me about £1500 more. Going withoug....well, you can see where I'll be sitting.

Please help,

Alec.

 

[LemonTree]

and the second one...

 

[Rod Gervais]

Lemon,

I personally would go with the slider - it gives you perfect symmetry in the room and you sitting dead center of that - and i consider that very important in a control room......


If you wish you can deaden the back of the room (It's called Live Front Dead Back (LD) Design..... deal with low frequency through the use of Bass Traps (Ethan Weiner at Recording.org has some very nice plans for DIY traps) and then deal with reflections through the creation of an RFZ (Reflection Free Zone) you will still have a decent room regardless of the fact that you don't have perfect symmetry. If you aren't getting reflections from the surfaces - as long as you are symmeterical to your speakers it should still sound right. Not perfect - but close.

Regardless of how you wish to deal with it - you still want the traps and RFZ - so that cost will remain the same.

Ethan also has a secion dealing with RFZ.

Good luck - either way you will have a decent control room. Best with perfect symmetry - but decent the other way.

Sincerely,

Rod

 

[frederic]

Ideally, for proper isolation, you'd have two patio doors at slightly different angles, moving in parallel. One on the console room so you have a symetrical layout, and one in the live or drum room so the rooms are isolated from each other.

Large plate glass like in home depot patio doors do transmit sound very well, as they are large smooth surfaces.

Think big glass woofer...

 

[Rod Gervais]

Re: Re: Control room decisions????

Ideally, for proper isolation, you'd have two patio doors at slightly different angles, moving in parallel. One on the console room so you have a symetrical layout, and one in the live or drum room so the rooms are isolated from each other.

Large plate glass like in home depot patio doors do transmit sound very well, as they are large smooth surfaces.

Think big glass woofer...

Frederic,

Very good points - and to elaborate a little more - even more ideally you would have custom glass inserts made for them - with single glazing in each face - and different thicknesses of glass -

With 2 door assemblies adjacent to each other (insulated units) you now have a 4 leaf system - and what you want for isolation is a 2 leaf. The 4 leafs of the same thickness will pass even more sound through. (You do not increase - but rather decrease - the STC value of a wall if you install panels inside of the cavity).

The different thicknesses i mention is to avoid sympathetic resonance.

Rod

 

[TexRoadkill]

How about a window and a trap door leading to a tunnel between the rooms?

 

[LemonTree]

nice one Tex

I was thinkin more Startrek™ teleporter