I have just moved locations to a larger room where I do my recording sessions. This new room is an establishment
sharing both live room and control room in the same space. I have watched majority of the realtraps videos on the site as well
as spending hours reading through magazine articles and was hoping to get a few suggestions.

My room dimensions are as follows W 22 L 23.5 H 11 (I know I'm already off to a tough start with it being so close to a perfect square)

My current means of treatment are a few office baffles in the corners ranging from sizes of 4'x4' to 4'x6' as well as one behind my reference monitors and the adjacent wall. I'm also currently researching local distributors for 703 to start on the construction of my own bass traps with the current budget of 500-800.

thanks in advance

I didn't see any questions in your post, but the good news is the room is large. I'd other have large and square than small and not square. Office baffles can range from marginally useful to not useful at all. It depends on what they're made of and where you put them. Follow the advice in my Acoustics FAQ linked below and you'll be off to a great start. Here's the short version -

All rooms need:

* Broadband (not tuned) bass traps straddling as many corners as you can manage, including the wall-ceiling corners. More bass traps on the rear wall behind helps even further. You simply cannot have too much bass trapping. Real bass trapping, that is - thin foam and thin fiberglass don't work to a low enough frequency.

* Mid/high frequency absorption at the first reflection points on the side walls and ceiling.

* Some additional amount of mid/high absorption and/or diffusion on any large areas of bare parallel surfaces, such as opposing walls or the ceiling if the floor is reflective. Diffusion on the rear wall behind you is also useful in larger rooms.

For the complete story see my Acoustics FAQ.

There's a lot of additional non-sales technical information on my company's web site - articles, videos, test tones and other downloads, and much more.

--Ethan

thanks Ethan, sorry about the lack of making it a question in the post, I'm relieved to hear from a professional that the room is a good size after all. You've helped me more than I can give thanks for just from your website it's self!


Sean

Ethan, i know that he is on a budget so building a wall will probably take too much of is budget(about 125$ of material). But if he would build a wall to cut one dimention of the room to about 18 to 19 feet, he would help the mode a lot. Since in a room like this, the mode are over each other, since the room even with another wall will have near 4400 cubic feet and since his budget is so weak to treat correctly a room large like this with 703, im not sure that it wouldn't be a good idea to build that wall after all. Treating these kind of dimension with bass trap will take a lot, a lot of 703 witch is far from free. it will have to be treated with a wall too, but the mode will be more even so even if it is less treated, it will be flatter. What do you think?

Glitch, if you want to cheap out, try using Roxul AFB. Buy a bread knife to cut it, work like hot knife through butter. The spec are almost the same, but it is not heavy duty as 703, meaning that it can be crushed and it do not come back to original size witch 703 do. 703 is a better product, but the difference of price is almost divided by 3. Since your budget and quantity need, i would look for this.