[BC] Control Room design

[Milton R. Holladay Jr.]

Rectangular rooms will normally be your best bet; you certainly wouldn't 
want a square or circular  room, and a cube should be avoided at all costs.
To get the best acoustics, the proportions need to be as close to 2 X 3 X 5 
as possible, e.g, 8' ceiling X 12' wide X 20' long, to distribute the 
eigentons. Add some Silok(TM) and Silentex(TM) or some of that booby foam 
crap to absorb the higher frequencies and you're in pretty good shape 
(sorry, carpet on walls shall not apply).............
If you have room for trapezoids, go for it, but the _average_ of the 
dimensions will still need to be ~ 2 X 3 X 5 in proportion, unless maybe 
you're doing traps, &c.........
M

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Peterson" <alanpeterson at earthlink.net>
> >From: "Dana  Puopolo" <dpuopolo at usa.net>
>>
>>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.

> 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.
>