thesquirrel wrote:

my tracking room is too dead and i need to add some top back to it.

Had that problem with my listening room after adding a lot of
bookshelfs, solved it with placing book-closets with glass doors in the
shelf system on the rear wall, only some 50 percent coverage. Keeps the
books and things nicely free of dust too and the "acoustic location" of
the wall remains undefined, ie. main reflection and resonance
attenuation still works.


Kind regards

Peter Larsen


--
*******************************************
* My site is at: http://www.muyiovatki.dk *
*******************************************

my tracking room is too dead and i need to add some top back to it.

18 x 20; 9 ft drop ceiling with insulation over it (don't ask) one
wall has windows , one wall drywall (painted) two walls some gnarly
brown soundproofing crap that comes in sheets like dry wall. cement
floor with indus carpet. i need to leave these up cuz can't affort to
have more leakage.

also, the space i'm in is gonna be torn down in a year or so, so i'm
not looking to invest too much...

has anyone had this problem (room too dead) and can they share some
solutions?

thanks!

hey sorry about the typo.... afford....

The most obvious place is to check what's above that drop ceiling. I
had a drop ceiling in one room that was quite small. Took out some of
the drop panels and there was an immediate audible difference. You may
not make it sound great, but you may get an incremental improvement.

The other thing is distribution of highs. You can have a fairly
reflective room, but if you have some diffusors (polycylindrical work
pretty well) you can make it somewhat manageable. Someone on rap had
posted pics a while back of some wall-hung diffusors that he had made.
Might check that out.

The most obvious place is to check what's above that drop ceiling. I
had a drop ceiling in one room that was quite small. Took out some of
the drop panels and there was an immediate audible difference. You may
not make it sound great, but you may get an incremental improvement.

The other thing is distribution of highs. You can have a fairly
reflective room, but if you have some diffusors (polycylindrical work
pretty well) you can make it somewhat manageable. Someone on rap had
posted pics a while back of some wall-hung diffusors that he had made.
Might check that out.

On 4 Sep 2005 10:24:01 -0700, "thesquirrel"
wrote:

my tracking room is too dead and i need to add some top back to it.

18 x 20; 9 ft drop ceiling with insulation over it (don't ask) one
wall has windows , one wall drywall (painted) two walls some gnarly
brown soundproofing crap that comes in sheets like dry wall. cement
floor with indus carpet. i need to leave these up cuz can't affort to
have more leakage.

also, the space i'm in is gonna be torn down in a year or so, so i'm
not looking to invest too much...

has anyone had this problem (room too dead) and can they share some
solutions?

Go to the local 2nd hand store, or garage sales and pick up things
like glass chandeliers and broken brass instruments. You can pick them
up for almost noting if they're not working. Experiment by hanging
them is different parts of the room.

It may make the room look like an East Village coffee shop, but who
cares?

A_C

awesome .... it can't look worse than it does now anyway.

how bout mirrors and posters in frames (w glass)?



also anyone e
Agent_C wrote:
On 4 Sep 2005 10:24:01 -0700, "thesquirrel"
wrote:

my tracking room is too dead and i need to add some top back to it.

18 x 20; 9 ft drop ceiling with insulation over it (don't ask) one
wall has windows , one wall drywall (painted) two walls some gnarly
brown soundproofing crap that comes in sheets like dry wall. cement
floor with indus carpet. i need to leave these up cuz can't affort to
have more leakage.

also, the space i'm in is gonna be torn down in a year or so, so i'm
not looking to invest too much...

has anyone had this problem (room too dead) and can they share some
solutions?

Go to the local 2nd hand store, or garage sales and pick up things
like glass chandeliers and broken brass instruments. You can pick them
up for almost noting if they're not working. Experiment by hanging
them is different parts of the room.

It may make the room look like an East Village coffee shop, but who
cares?

A_C

On 4 Sep 2005 13:37:56 -0700, "thesquirrel"
wrote:

awesome .... it can't look worse than it does now anyway.

how bout mirrors and posters in frames (w glass)?

If you have a dead room, glass is a great acoustical treatment. Take a
look at what they did at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center.

A_C

has anyone had this problem (room too dead) and can they share some
solutions?

Yes, I've had a too dead room but this kinda solved itself.

The rehearsal center where my studio was located at the time was having
the doors of their rehearsal rooms replaced for better acoustical
insulation.

The old doors that otherwise would've been scrap wood were quite a nice
improvement in the acoustics of the room. MDF panels might be a more
realistic choice in your case.

I've been considering gluing up some bathroom tile, at lease on one
side of my gobos.