The Family Garage

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Life makes you make unfortunate choices. I agree that the wall system would have been better if he could have ripped off the exterior sheathing and used it as the outer leaf of a mass-spring-mass assembly. But not everybody has the freedom to rip the outside of their house off. So you work around it.

MY current DIY project is a standalone practice/self-recording booth in my garage aprox 4' square (like those Whisper Room units but less expensive and ideally more isolated.) For various reasons (such as building permits and property taxes) the booth needs to be freestanding and able to be dismantled. Talk about needing to make compromises!
 
Innovations, I fully understand compromise - what I don't understand (yet) is how you can just ignore something that's already there, as opposed to finding a way to lessen its impact on performance - just because you ignore a large tree doesn't mean you won't get hurt by running into it.

Hopefully before Jack escapes our greedy clutches, he can elucidate on this in terms all us non-acousticians can follow - at the very least, since I plan to hang around here for quite a bit longer than a month, I hope to learn enough to look further into some of these concepts and hopefully "translate" some of them to common terms so more of our membership can benefit from Jack's contributions as much (and as long) as possible.

I do my best not to propagate "voodoo", and with any luck at all I may improve on that with any increased knowledge of the subject... Steve
 
Hopefully before Jack escapes our greedy clutches, he can elucidate on this in terms all us non-acousticians can follow -
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Plese, us poor unedicated freshman don't kno what u r talkn bout when you talk thos big wurds Steve. Culd u talk in wurds that sound like reel wurds .....u kno, wurds lik eludicate sound lik a foran langage 2 us so mabe u can spek englis fur us huh? it hurd nuff undrstandin that coustics' stuf lik 703 an leaf an cuinsadance stuf wthot usin wurds we don undrstand.....i kno it wil be hurd, but i kno u can do it......i meen yur used 2 teechn us stuf in plane ole englis so no need tryin mpres som ole big whig coustition. He alredy kno we has no brains....so dont be fraid to talk like we kno ya, ok? well, thts bout all i hav 2day, whew....that evn wor out this ole brain....time for my silvr centrum.

fitZ :p
 
knightfly said:
Innovations, I fully understand compromise - what I don't understand (yet) is how you can just ignore something that's already there, as opposed to finding a way to lessen its impact on performance - just because you ignore a large tree doesn't mean you won't get hurt by running into it.

Hopefully before Jack escapes our greedy clutches, he can elucidate on this in terms all us non-acousticians can follow - at the very least, since I plan to hang around here for quite a bit longer than a month, I hope to learn enough to look further into some of these concepts and hopefully "translate" some of them to common terms so more of our membership can benefit from Jack's contributions as much (and as long) as possible.

I do my best not to propagate "voodoo", and with any luck at all I may improve on that with any increased knowledge of the subject... Steve
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Maybe he is presuming the outer sheathing is so worthless it doesn't really contribute or hinder. But in this theoretical case we don't know what the ourside surfact is. The only presumption is that it can't be removed, and with the average person who is converting a garage that is the more common situation. SO, given the presumption that the outer surface has to remain his design seems like an economical and buildable approach that the average person building a garage studio would regard as satisfactory.
 
Inno......... that's pretty much what I'm wondering too at the moment - and I intend to find out a lot more about this very thing and others so we can hopefully stop sweating things we can't change in our various projects...

Rick, sari - i dinut mene to ewe's big wurdz agin; elucidate is what Ricky did b4 he merried hur an' met Fred an Ethul so minny yeers ugo :=)

Awright, 'nuff wimpy stuff; buy a dick-shun-airy, whiney-bitch - I bet yer cryin' has all yer good chisels gettin' all rusty (slap-slap) - gonna start callin' ya "Taffy", so you kin "pull yerself together"...

Hey, even though the last two paragraphs were jokey, this isnt; keep in mind that I've helped several people realize their goals here and elsewhere, even with my "out of date" science - free-standing rooms where drums are inaudible 10 feet away, etc - so don't sweat the small stuff; all it can get is better (and it will)

Gotta run guise, work day starts at 04:30 manana... Steve
 
Geeezzzzzussss Krisst! :eek:

What a can of worms poor ol' Jack has opened.
Lighten up "guise". We're all here to learn something I thought...

Fitz, don't make me send my red-headed Grandma over to rough you up. She's short, but she is mean... :)

My two cents, chastise me as you wish. :rolleyes:
 
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