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scoobz
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Hi all,
I hate reading long posts but if you can wade your way through this because I'm desperate for help
My situation is this, having converted a double uk garage with a room within a room setup three years later I still feel like I'm fighting my room. I have old aboslute 2's on my net machine in an untreated room and get perfectly acceptable mixes from that so I'm pretty sure it's not my ears.
Right stay with me, when I first constructed the studio I did the whole sitting on neoprene thing, 60kg/m2 rockwool 4inches thick in the walls, the whole 9 yards. Unfortunately I had to make a few concessions on the way which I think may have screwed it up completely. I wanted one skin of plasterboard (sheetrock?) on the inside and two on the outside and to cut a long story short it worked out the reverse of that.
Another concession was I ended up needing taller roof beams to support the span, I think it was 6x4 inch or 8 x 6 can't remember now but the upshot was I lost another couple of inches headroom.
I've ended up with a room that's 4.28m x 4.64m x2.02 (horrible dimensions I know). Despite numerous bass traps and proper foam treatment I always find myself with mixes which don't translate onto other systems at all. I have Genelec 1031's with the 15inch sub (I think it's the 7070)
I'm tearing my hair out here and short of moving don't know what else I can do!
One thing I did come up with was stripping the room and taking down the first two layers of plasterboard on the ceiling, keeping the rockwool in place and covering with cloth, now this won't do wonders for my isolation (right in the middle of lots of houses) but would the extra headroom and absorption be worth the effort?
As it is I'm sure I'm getting pretty heavy comb filtering with the ceiling being so low and I only have a foam backed carpet on the floor, so vertically I have hardly any treatment, this way I would increase that by loads and get wooden flooring (the classic setup)
Well thanks for sticking with it and let me know what you think, I REALLY need your help here!
I hate reading long posts but if you can wade your way through this because I'm desperate for help
My situation is this, having converted a double uk garage with a room within a room setup three years later I still feel like I'm fighting my room. I have old aboslute 2's on my net machine in an untreated room and get perfectly acceptable mixes from that so I'm pretty sure it's not my ears.
Right stay with me, when I first constructed the studio I did the whole sitting on neoprene thing, 60kg/m2 rockwool 4inches thick in the walls, the whole 9 yards. Unfortunately I had to make a few concessions on the way which I think may have screwed it up completely. I wanted one skin of plasterboard (sheetrock?) on the inside and two on the outside and to cut a long story short it worked out the reverse of that.
Another concession was I ended up needing taller roof beams to support the span, I think it was 6x4 inch or 8 x 6 can't remember now but the upshot was I lost another couple of inches headroom.
I've ended up with a room that's 4.28m x 4.64m x2.02 (horrible dimensions I know). Despite numerous bass traps and proper foam treatment I always find myself with mixes which don't translate onto other systems at all. I have Genelec 1031's with the 15inch sub (I think it's the 7070)
I'm tearing my hair out here and short of moving don't know what else I can do!
One thing I did come up with was stripping the room and taking down the first two layers of plasterboard on the ceiling, keeping the rockwool in place and covering with cloth, now this won't do wonders for my isolation (right in the middle of lots of houses) but would the extra headroom and absorption be worth the effort?
As it is I'm sure I'm getting pretty heavy comb filtering with the ceiling being so low and I only have a foam backed carpet on the floor, so vertically I have hardly any treatment, this way I would increase that by loads and get wooden flooring (the classic setup)
Well thanks for sticking with it and let me know what you think, I REALLY need your help here!
