Looking for help planning out setup.

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Hey everyone, I'm planning on turning my guest bedroom into a little studio. Attached is my first attempt at laying it out on paper, I'd much rather have a game plan before starting. The room is 10.6 ft x 10.6 ft x 8 ft. Any help would be appreciated.
 

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If at all possible, I would put the desk at the top of the drawing, so that the speakers are firing down the length of the room as opposed to the width.
 
Rami - I don't think he drew it to scale - dimensions below are 10'6" x 10'6", so which wall the desk is on shoudln't make much of a difference.

Comment: 2x4 'acoustic treatment' and 24" corner bass traps - read the threads here about creating your own bass traps as these can all be the same. Hope you are not thinking of "acoustic foam" for any of these.
 
mjbphotos said:
Rami - I don't think he drew it to scale - dimensions below are 10'6" x 10'6", so which wall the desk is on shoudln't make much of a differencee.
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Ah thanx, you're probably right. I didn't read, I just looked at the picture. :D
 
RAMI said:
If at all possible, I would put the desk at the top of the drawing, so that the speakers are firing down the length of the room as opposed to the width.
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Yeah the drawing isn't perfectly to scale.


Comment: 2x4 'acoustic treatment' and 24" corner bass traps - read the threads here about creating your own bass traps as these can all be the same. Hope you are not thinking of "acoustic foam" for any of these.
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Yeah I've been looking into all the different DIY stuff, thats what I was planning I just wasn't sure what else to call it.
 
It's too bad that your room is a square, but I guess we have to work with what we got!

I'd say don't stick your monitors right up against the wall if possible; if you do it will unnecessarily boost the low end which could mess up your mixes.

If you want to get into the nitty gritty, you can determine the resonant frequencies or room modes of your room [whose wavelengths are equivalent to the dimensions of your room] and distribute mineral fibre panels that are at least a 1/4 wavelength of the modes evenly around the walls and ceiling.

If you start randomly sticking foam everywhere you might actually make it worse by deadening mid/high frequencies.
 
SloppyJo said:
If you want to get into the nitty gritty, you can determine the resonant frequencies or room modes of your room [whose wavelengths are equivalent to the dimensions of your room] and distribute mineral fibre panels that are at least a 1/4 wavelength of the modes evenly around the walls and ceiling.
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How would you go about figuring this out?
 
brob89 said:
How would you go about figuring this out?
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There are a bunch of room mode calculators on the interwebz. Just input the dimensions of your room into one of them.

Find the most troublesome modal frequencies and their wavelengths, divide by 4 to get the 1/4 wavelengths [assuming the calculator doesn't give it to you], and get some mineral fibre (roxul, owens corning 703, etc.) panels whose thickness is roughly equivalent to the 1/4 wavelength of the modal frequencies and put some around the room; you don't need to cover the room, just enough to even things out.
 
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