Treating a slanted ceiling room

[Talldog]

I'm in the process of a studio remodel. My control room is on a third floor with about a three foot knee wall on two sides and a slanted ceiling after that. The slant behind where the speakers will be and at the wall behind me across from the speakers. I have ridgid fiberglass bass traps for the upright corners. What should I do with the slanted corners?

 

[Weasel9992]

I'm in the process of a studio remodel. My control room is on a third floor with about a three foot knee wall on two sides and a slanted ceiling after that. The slant behind where the speakers will be and at the wall behind me across from the speakers. I have ridgid fiberglass bass traps for the upright corners. What should I do with the slanted corners?

Do you mean that it slants up to a peak in the center? Is the peak running the length of the room or the width?

Frank

 

[Talldog]

No. It slants up to a flat ceiling. The slanted part is about 4 feet long. I'll post a pick when the floor is dry.

 

[Talldog]

Here are a couple of pics of the angles.

 

[Ethan Winer]

Here are a couple of pics of the angles.

You'll treat that like a room with a normal ceiling. Absorbers at the side-wall and ceiling reflection points, plus as many corner bass traps as you can manage. The side-wall reflection points might not be the same as for a flat wall, but the old "mirror trick" will easily find them.

--Ethan

 

[Talldog]

Thanks Ethan.

So....um....What is this mirror trick of which you speak?

 

[dementedchord]

sitting at the mix position and with speakers set up... have a friend hold amirror to the wall if you can see the speaker cover the area...

 

[Talldog]

I just read Ethan's page about studio design. Required reading! It also went over the mirror trick. Thanks!

 

[DrewPeterson7]

I just read Ethan's page about studio design. Required reading! It also went over the mirror trick. Thanks!

That IS a good read. I've been looking into treating my bedroom/studio lately - I'm sure I'll be referring to that.

 

[Folkcafe]

I too have an attic studio

I didn't want a basement studio as given the average dimensions of residential construction, bass management can be a major headache. I detail some the the rational and the treatment design in the description of my studio at http://folkcafe.wordpress.com/studio There is also a picture of the studio control room.