Soundman2020 - Studio Design Forum

I just wanted to peek in and say how inspiring your project has been for the duration. Both in terms of your attention to detail as well as a comfortable dose of reality in terms of the length of time projects like this can take. Thanks for taking all this time to share your journey!

-= george =-

7138 IMG_8385.jpeg Ill post some pictures when its completely done, but Im really loving how it came out. That looks TIGHT! Pun entirely intended. Can't wait to see it all done. Did you happen to snap any pics of the tightening process? I've had good success at pulling fabric tight over frames and ...

I'm assuming this room is already fully isolated? In other words, you'll be adding insulation to the final, inner leaf of the room? No more isolation needed? So your intention is only to treat the completed room now, not isolate? Just checking, because often there's confusion here. Thanks so much f...

The short version with more detail below: for an inside out mixing room, for the purpose of getting a room dead before tuning, is there any benefit to consider between 4" roxul safe at 4.5pcf vs 4" roxul afb at 2.5pcf? And is there another product I should consider for stuffing the cavitie...

7122 Speaker design is all about making a whole series of compromises in various ways to try to impedance-match the driver to the atmosphere, such that it transfers as much power as possible, equally across as wide a range of frequencies as possible, with frequency response that is as flat as possi...

The scattering surfaces are incredible. Like a slice out of an Aero candy bar but sonically functional. Were they designed with specific frequencies in mind or more as general diffusion?

7116 But do take into account that those ports or active elements were part of the design of the speaker! They were there to improve the sound of the speaker in some way. But if they are inside the soffit, they can't do that any more. On the other hand, what they were doing is usually trying to dea...

Fun aside about sorbothane. I've worked with that stuff for a whole bunch of different projects. Using it to isolate medical equipment motors from resonant bed frames in my day job, creating some mic stand attachments for mics that need just a bit more isolation from rumbles, and even trying (and fa...

I know this wall of text has to be a dummy question and I did search but failed to find anything similar. Please forgive me if it's a dead horse :horse: I'm also making some assumptions on books and threads I've read so far and am ready to be incorrect. When designing a soffit baffle front wall, fro...

Good Lloyd. You're killin me, Smalls. :shock: How big of a basement is it that it can hold so many instrumentalists? The decoupling efforts had to have been massive and from the way it looks right now you must be at a point where you're shaving bits and pieces here and there to finish off the tuning...

7103 ah, ok. so in this example - we needed to replace a load bearing beam that was short with a long steel one to support the upper floors. we used a decoupled footer for each of the end and middle post (between the interior walls) and far end into the exterior foundation wall. then wrapped a soff...

Thank so much, Glenn. That definitely makes sense for a large inner room. The one I'm remembering - at least I think I am - had a massive steel beam as part of the building the studio was built in and couldn't be worked around so it was visible in part of one of the inner rooms. Or I'm hallucinating.

7095 You come across as knowledgeable enough but just to make doubly sure you understand that isolation and HVAC need to be in the initial plans before you start building because trying to add either later on is a recipe for an expensive, nigh impossible task. Tearing down is different. Have fun do...

Long overdue post considering how long I've been lurking here and at John's (rest his soul) old site. Umm, hi! I'm George, I live near Seattle which is in the north west part of the United States in a state called Washington - short driving distance away from the much more polite Canadians - and hav...

Spectacular. Thank you so much for the advice!

-= george =-