PICS! 1/2 WAY UNTIL THE ROOM IS DONE Everyone please help me out (final suggestions)

[Mr Music]

jeez...

im repeating shit cuz i tend to doubt things i have little experience in...

anyways...i get it

ill try and build it all this weekend or whatever

my max amount of boxes to be made is 8...well if you guys say 2 counts as 1....then 4

so i make 4 of those

that means 16 pc. of 2 by 4 feet 2 inch thick fiberglass sheets....
and just lots of wood....lots of it

by the way i have 2 questions

1. does the wood have to be the thickness that it specifies? i have even thinner wood...
2. i have fiberglass sheets that are already wrapped in fabric (fabric only, no wood) so basicly they are 2 inch thick 2by4 sheets of fiberglass in black cotton....

can i just put that in the box rather than covering the back of the slats...


so i guess ill make these 4 boxes with 2 slants each and put them up....
put up more clouds and the room should be working

if not, then i will have to hunt you all individualy and force feed you rigid fiberglass sheets...


haha jokes

anyways, sorry for being annoying
i tend to do that when im excited...

 

[VSpaceBoy]

1. does the wood have to be the thickness that it specifies? i have even thinner wood...

How thin? As long as is very solid it shouldn't matter very much.

2. i have fiberglass sheets that are already wrapped in fabric (fabric only, no wood) so basicly they are 2 inch thick 2by4 sheets of fiberglass in black cotton....can i just put that in the box rather than covering the back of the slats..

That'll work now get busy!!

 

[Mr Music]

hopefully this is how itll look

4 absorbers with 8 slants

thatll be 8 feet across one side of the room with 4 sheets side by side of 2 feet top and bottom
and 8 feet across the other side of the room with 4 sheets side by side of 2 feet top and bottom


...so all ill need it wood and screws......have the fabric and fiberglass.....


wish me luck.....

 

[VSpaceBoy]

WoRD!!!!!!!

 

[Ptownkid]

I totally blanked, I made my units a tad different. The diagram shows a one piece unit, but I broke it down into two units to make it easier to move.

I imagine that you'd be fine by using half of what you have in your picture

cheers

 

[LemonTree]

Your diagram of your room looks like you have your wall absorbers pointing in the wrong direction....

Hard to explain with no drawing tools but your diagonal lines in the red boxes should be going the other way so that the absorbers slant diagonaly inwards from the back of the room to the front......

Otherwise you're gonna be absorbing what bounces off the back wall??

did that make sense?

 

[VSpaceBoy]

Your diagram of your room looks like you have your wall absorbers pointing in the wrong direction....

Hard to explain with no drawing tools but your diagonal lines in the red boxes should be going the other way so that the absorbers slant diagonaly inwards from the back of the room to the front......

Otherwise you're gonna be absorbing what bounces off the back wall??

did that make sense?

Its makes sense what your saying but its incorrect.

The goal is to bounce reflections and sounds created at and around the mixing position AWAY. So they need to be angled exactly how they are.

But yes, he will eventually need to add a broadband absorber (similar to what he as already made for the corners) to that wall oposite the mixing desk.

 

[Mr Music]

will that be a problem then if my mic will be in the middle of the room

you see in the pic where it says back room

in my REAL PICTURES of the room

ill have a mic stand about in the middle of the room, maybe a little on the side....


also does it and why does it matter to have different size gaps and different sizes slats...

why alternate and all

why not just make them all equal with the same gaps...

i mean the whole box is easy to make but i dont get why the put up peices have to all be different and alternating at 3 different measurements and with different gaps...


other than that e z....i guess...

but these 2 questions are my latest

 

[VSpaceBoy]

It will be ok to track in the middle of the room but that back wall will reflect sound back into the mic. So until you can make a panel for that wall just face your back to it when recording.

The difference in gaps doesn't matter. It was thought at one time that the varying gaps helped broaden the freq resonating but has been agreed that it all evens out in the end. So long story short, just do whatevers easiest. ie The same all the way down.

 

[Mr Music]

basicly what im looking at as far as measurements for 1 sidewall absorber is

-1pc 8 feet x 4 feet for the back

-3pc of 8 feet x 8 inches for the 3 sides...2 on the sides and 1 in the middle

-2pc of 8 feet x 2 feet for the slats...these 2 pcs will get cut up to make them...

-2pc 4 feet by 8 inches for the top and bottom to be closed up

basicly ill try and get the biggest pcs and cut it up so its economical...
obviously some will be some inches bigger cuz itll be put together...
it will be a box with 2 slants that have gaps basicly...

i have all the fiberglass...

all my wood will be thin...
we shall see when i get to home depot...


basicly ill need to make 4 of that i just described...

 

[headyrecords]

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V Space - kudos to your mentioning of pittsburgh nelly in your sig. classic farley.