John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum

Greetings all,
Boy, sure wish I had this site when I built my studio back in 96. This info and support is priceless! Thanks to Mr Sayers and kudos to all who expand the frontiers of good sound.

I modified a back room and built another onto it in 1996 using what I could glean of acoustic principles. I'm sure I made alot of mistakes but with Cakewalk, a pile of mics & pres, and Mackie HR 824s, I made some ok tracks for friends and word of mouth contacts. (a few of my tracks are posted at www.africangospel.org ) That is to say, I'm a small time hobbiest class recordist who spends more money on gear than I earn at music. But golly, I love good sound !

Anyways, I got to this site while searching for a solution to acoustic gremlins I discovered while rearranging my mixing station. I will post specifics in a subsequent post. A measurement mic and some sweeps & pink and white noise along with a spectrum matching eq got me some hard facts on my listening environment. The bogie is 159 hz howl that I am unable to kill with movements of mix position or movements of existing absorbers. It remains when I open all three doors to the control room. I've gotten obsessed with this sucker and even got out my old FRAP contact pickup and measured my paneling for resonances. during these tests I upped the volume on my pink noise and blew one of my woofers. I now have a woofer on order & my closet torn apart and am building a helmholz absorber out of one coset wall.

So, two casualties on my side -- no casualties on the audio gremlins side. Can you relate to this: study, compute, sketch, build, position and reposition and still the original problem persists.

Don't try to post solutions at this time ; I just wanted to commiserate! Nobody else knows fighting the good fight like you all will.

I will post a sketch and some stuff later today or tomorrow and fish for advice.
Peace, Matt

So which search engine was it that sent you here? I'd really like to know, so we can try to get de-listed from it, to avoid this latest epidemic of spammers....

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