[Scott Dorsey]

elecbanana wrote:
issue. I asked how to tackle a specific task and got helpful answers
from only one person. I don't want to sound ungrateful, but "tell
them to turn down" isn't an answer to how to best utilize the space in
the ceiling to absorb sound. While valuable advice, I didn't ask
"Should I tell them to turn down?" This is a very small room with a
lot of people in it making noise. It's going to be loud.

The answer is that you can't do it.

To some extent, you can make the room absorptive at high frequencies,
but if you do that, it becomes an unpleasant place to play because you
can't hear yourself properly.

Making it absorptive at low frequencies is very expensive and very
difficult to do, and requires wasting a large amount of the space in
the room with acoustic control materials.

I'm trying to avoid spending a lot of my personal money and putting in
a ton of unpaid time just so I can try various methods that may or may
not work. I'd rather learn than learn the hard way. You know?

Call in an acoustician, then, and have him measure the RT60 of the room,
and tell you what you need to do in order to get it into a good range
where people can hear themselves without being overpoweringly ringy.
--scott
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