My room treatment idea...what do you think?

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Looking for any advice I can get. This is what I have so far. Let me know what you think or if I should make any adjustments.

The closet on the lower right is the vocal booth.
The black thing by the desk is a combo amp.
The transparent looking things are clouds.
All of this treatment will be made out of OC 703 2".

This is on the second floor of a house, by the way. Carpet flooring.

Sorry, I don't have the measurements of the room yet. I did this drawing at work. :D
 
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Here's the view looking into the room and my idea for treating it.
 
> All of this treatment will be made out of OC 703 2" <

For corner trapping you should double up the panels to be four inches thick. For mid/high frequency absorption elsewhere 2 inches is okay.

--Ethan
 
ethan, what if you tripled up in the corners, 6" thick instead? Worth it?
 
Yes going to 6" would help a lot!! Go to your website and check out the test numbers between 4" and 6". Granted these are not just fabric wrapped panels but a big part of it is the thickness.. To be fair check out www.realtraps.com and look at the mini to the mondo. Yes this is 3" vs 4" but it really does help.
Glenn
 
Ethan Winer said:
> All of this treatment will be made out of OC 703 2" <

For corner trapping you should double up the panels to be four inches thick. For mid/high frequency absorption elsewhere 2 inches is okay.

--Ethan
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What if I did a purley corner situated thing? Like, filled the entire corner in a triangle formation?
 
> filled the entire corner in a triangle formation? <

Yes, is this is known to work well. What matters most is getting as much absorbing material as possible in the room corners. But there's a point of diminishing returns. While filling the corner fully might be, say, 20 percent better than a single four-inch thick panel, it will cost three times more for the material. So if you have only so much money for material, you'll do better to treat additional corners less fully, such as where the walls and ceiling meet.

--Ethan
 
One of your main concerns with mixing will be not hearing first order reflections off of the back wall. You've placed most of your treatment behind the speakers where their first exposture to the sound will most likely be after it has already bounced off the back wall.

And from you second diagram...how tall is that room?
 
Here's some updated pictures with measurements and also an actual picture I took to further illustrate what the room actually looks like.
 
Well, thought I posted this the other day....

Try to get some panels straddling the upper corners where the slanted ceiling meets the flat ceiling. Not only will that help get some absorbtion throughout the space but it will also offer some good bass absorbtion.
 
if I were you I would seperate the recording area from your listening area. I would turn you desk and furniture around 180 degrees and the put a wall up with a plexi glass window to seperate. If your using condensers you don't want computer racket going on. Plus it's nice to hear the recording live through your monitors without also hearing the sound source. But if your not going to record a drum kit what you have is probably fine.
 
gcapel said:
if I were you I would seperate the recording area from your listening area. I would turn you desk and furniture around 180 degrees and the put a wall up with a plexi glass window to seperate. If your using condensers you don't want computer racket going on. Plus it's nice to hear the recording live through your monitors without also hearing the sound source. But if your not going to record a drum kit what you have is probably fine.
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a single wall with a plexi glass window isnt going to block off much sound especially since it would also need a door, and there are much cheaper ways of isolating a computer from the recording than making a wall, also this will cut off alot of room space for the control room, overall im not sure how good of an idea that would be, although it would be cooler looking he would be better off using some goodheadphones and some shooting headphones clamped on top(if they arent open back) to hear the recording while tracking
 
Ohh, and It may be better to put some acoustic treatment on your back wall than the wall behind the speakers. Although there are problematic frequencies that build up at the backs of speakers, they don't cause as many problems as from the fronts. So, if the sound is allowed to travel to the back wall, bounce around and back to you, then there may be problems.
 
Using the same treatment, i think you'd be better of with this.
 

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That might definitely help. However, you'll still want something on the front wall between speakers and behind them to not only deal with reflections, but also to tune the SBIR to your advantage.

As for the ones on the back wall - I'd say that's probably good - just a matter of WHAT to put back there (how thick? Faced or not?) depending on what else goes on in the room.

Bryan
 
I can't really create a wall with glass and whatever...I'm on the second floor. That would introduce quite a bit of weight to the room. And I don't really want to be caught by surprise and end up sitting in the garage on top of my car one day.

As far as treatment on the back wall, it's a good idea. However, that line that you crossed with the treatment you added to the pic is a wall that comes out. And where you have that treatment on the far left is the door. :D Sorry I didn't note that in the drawing.

The reason for my treatment on the wall behind the speakers is to tame what goes on directly behind the speakers and then to block that window behind the console, where I figured would be a problem for reflections.
 
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