Yet another treatment placement question.

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OK, so i think i finally have enough material to get the room sounding half way decent, so i figured i'd go ahead and post a diagram and some pictures and try to get some feed back.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/16858272@N07/

what i have:

18 2'X4'X2" pieces of covered rock wool
16 2'X4'X4" pieces of acoustical cotton

From what i understand, the best placement for the speakers is shooting down the room the long way, but the south half of the room doubles as a home theater/hang space and is only used for spill over when i'm recording a whole band. so i'm more or less stuck with my mix desk where it's at.

the curtain's just a long thin piece of muslin that's just there to cover up the unsightly piles of crap that are behind it (it doesn't seem to effect the sound of the room).

i'm planning on just hanging the rock wool on the wall w/ velcro since building frames is a PITA and is somewhat counter productive.

i was thinking i'd use most of the 4" cotton as traps, placed across each corner floor to ceiling, and the rest as gobos.

as you can see in the pictures, everything is currently just kind of randomly scattered around, except for the 3 pieces of 2" hung on the north wall as a first reflection absorber.

i figure about three more pieces on the east wall directly across from the monitors as another reflection absorber and one as a cloud right above them.

should i also hang a cloud above my main tracking area?

other than that, i'm totally at a loss as to where i should put this stuff.
so i put it forth to you all, oh experts from the intertubes, to please guide me with your sage wisdom and advice.

many thanks in advance.
 
Firstly, put your mixing desk on one of the end walls, preferably the one to your right when you are sitting at the desk where it is at the moment. Your monitors should fire into the length of your room.
 
Seriously, as long as your desk is over there in that corner, you're going to be pretty much SOL. You need some symmetry in front of you or at a minimum get away from that side wall.

What is the density of the cotton that you have?

Bryan
 
hi guys, thanks for the response,

like i mentioned, setting up the long way is going to be kind of tough for me to swing....

i wonder, do you think it would help if i tried to get the desk more centered? basically just moving it straight south from where it's at now? the stupid post is in the way, but i may be able to work around that....

"What is the density of the cotton that you have?"

is this bryan pape from sensible sound? if so, you should know, i bought it from you!:)
but to answer your question, i'm not really sure...
 
Yeah - it's me. I know what it is now.

Can you swap positions of the table and your desk and move West instead of South in the room? That wall just to your right with nothing on the left is just killing you.

Bryan
 
hey bryan- thanks for the input-

i'm a little confused, switching the desk and table would be moving south, is that what you mean? (north is to the right in the picture)

but yeah, that actually would work out fairly well, since it wouldn't eat up anymore space than the current setup.
 
OK - sorry. Used to looking at drawings with North being up. I'll take a look and get back to this thread in a bit.

Bryan
 
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