[BC] Control Room design

[Alan Peterson]

>From: "Dana  Puopolo" <dpuopolo at usa.net>
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>I've had to live with rectangular rooms too-and you can make them sound
>good....The trick is to get a good acoustic engineer to pulse them and then
>put traps/diffusers in the trouble spots. 

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We can do this ourselves. The CE I referred to is no slouch when it comes to studio design, and I moonlight at Montgomery College in MD, teaching audio production (part of the curriculum includes acoustic design for basic studios).

The smaller studio I mentioned is simple to analyze: turn up the monitors until it feeds back. The note at which feedback zeroes in is the troublesome frequency (verified by applying the wavelength formula: frequency = speed of sound / room length along one axis). There are three viable corners in which to place a bass trap. The fishbowl studio with all the glass has a wall color that "looks so cool" as-is, nobody wanted to add baffles or absorbent panels to it.

Its possible to "live with rectangular rooms", but we didn't have to. This was a brand new buildout and the problem could have been nipped on paper before a single stud went up. 

drag...

-ap