ernest828 Posted July 4, 2002 Share Posted July 4, 2002 Recently moved the studio into a 15` x 18` room (kind of). The room consists of tiled floors, sheet rocked walls and ceilings (7` high). The room is an odd shape. Sort of squarish and then at the back of the room, the rear wall extends another 5` towards the right side. We have yet to notice any major frequency boasts or cuts but I`m not a specialist in this sort of thing. I was looking at the Auralex web site yesturday and wondering how many of you use their products? And do you like them? Have you noticed a difference in your rooms? A friend of mine wires studios and also makes his own absorbers, bass traps and diffusors. We are talking about building some for my place. I just want to get some pointers from everyone and see what we come up with. I`m sure many of you are in similiar situations or were. So what are you thinking about doing or what did you do? Peace, Ernest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven dunston Posted July 4, 2002 Share Posted July 4, 2002 My control room is 12x16x9. I did about half Auralex and half do-it-yourself. My major problems were high-end ringing from plaster walls, and some boomy low mids. I made my own diffusers for the side walls and dropped ceiling panels, and used Auralex for front/back walls and bass traps. Truthfully, the hide-a-bed sofa on the back wall did as much to fix the bass as the bass traps did. Nothing like large, heavy objects to soak up errant bass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gtoledo3 Posted July 4, 2002 Share Posted July 4, 2002 I've had a few veterans tell me that in the old days, in the tracking rooms, you would just have a some rolls of carpet laying around. You could put them in the corners to deaden bass, or unroll one to cover up a wall or two. Or you could just leave the room "live" sounding. I've been doing this lately, and am actually more happy w/ the results than I have been w/ any manufactured foam products. Then again, I'm in rectangular room setup; I have heard great (designed) rooms setup w/ auralex- I'm not slagging it. By the way, you might consider looking in your local phone book for suppliers of foam. You can get the same products for way cheaper (1/16-1/2 cost of Auralex), at least here in Tampa. Want mix/tracking feedback? Checkout "The Fade"- www.grand-designs.cc/mmforum/index.php The soon-to-be home of the "12 Bar-Blues Project" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethan Winer Posted July 5, 2002 Share Posted July 5, 2002 Steven, > Truthfully, the hide-a-bed sofa on the back wall did as much to fix the bass as the bass traps did. < Right, foam rubber will never do as good a job as real bass traps. I have a friend who spent $2500 on ASC tube traps for his tiny control room, and they hardly helped at all either. This Saturday we're going to start building the bass traps from my EM article, and soon he'll finally have a room he can mix in. :) --Ethan The acoustic treatment experts Ethan's Audio Expert Book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Smith Posted July 5, 2002 Share Posted July 5, 2002 I find the decision between DIY and premade is more looks than sonics ( esp when you are looking at 2" foam, bass management is a diff deal, and custom is usually best..)if you can make something that works, do it, if you arent able to make it well, buy it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ernest828 Posted July 6, 2002 Author Share Posted July 6, 2002 Ethan, Which EM article are you referring to? Its an interesting thing because right now my studio has one rug and bookshelf with a futon and another rug on its way in a week or two and I`m pretty confident that this will do the trick. Right now the room still has some reflection in it but I`m confident that those other pieces mentioned will suffice. For good measure, my friend will be coming by anyway and give his professional opinion. We`ll see... Its funny that you mentioned that your friend purchased those ASC stands that are endorsed so heavily by Bruce Swedien. I wonder if your friends studio was in pretty decent shape before the $2500 spent and he was expecting a change in his mixes? Wondering out loud.... Try to get back to me on that, thats interesting. Peace, Ernest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethan Winer Posted July 6, 2002 Share Posted July 6, 2002 Ernest, > Which EM article are you referring to? Go to my Articles page at: [url=http://www.ethanwiner.com/articles.html]www.ethanwiner.com/articles.html[/url] Then look for "Build a better bass trap" from the June 1995 issue of Electronic Musician. > right now my studio has one rug and bookshelf with a futon and another rug on its way in a week or two and I`m pretty confident that this will do the trick. < Doubtful. To make a room truly suitable for mixing you need real bass traps, not foam rubber or futons. :) The issues are described in my article, so look at that first and then we'll discuss it further. > those ASC stands that are endorsed so heavily by Bruce Swedien. < Well, "endorsed" and "agreed to appear in an ad for a fee" are two different things. Bruce may well believe in those traps, but if you add up the price of all the absorbers shown in those ads where Bruce is encircled, the cost is very high. For $2500 my friend got about eight wall mounted doodads and two pairs of speaker stand "traps." The room was unusable before he bought the traps, and after it was still pretty well unusable. In fact, I gave him ten pieces of 1-inch thick 703 fiberglass board I had left over, which he stuck under his control room couch, and that helped a little more. Heck, that $20 worth of fiberglass probably did as much as all those ASC tube traps combined. I'm going to my friend's today to help him begin building some real traps. --Ethan The acoustic treatment experts Ethan's Audio Expert Book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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