Noledge Studio - Construction And Design Process

vakis · **Posted:** Fri Nov 27, 2009 10:59 am

And the ceiling is up ladies and gentlemen

vakis · **Posted:** Mon Nov 30, 2009 12:16 pm

Here's how i think i'm going to move on with the door construction.
Thought i'd post it here since my design thread seems to be a bit dead...

I found it on this site: http://www.noiseproblems.com/

I'm thinking about exactly the same thing the thickness and all. Can't tell if it's a single wood piece, or multiple pieces glued together. It seems like one nice thick piece of wood...

Will the laminated glass have to be so narrow? The width of the vertical lines of wood seem to be taking too much off the visibility. Is that kind of thickness necessary, or can i get off with less? I'm using 1.2 cm laminated glass.

Any comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated

vakis · **Posted:** Tue Dec 01, 2009 4:49 am

Anyone out there..?

lilith_envy · **Posted:** Tue Dec 01, 2009 9:18 am

Great ceiling, nice looking doors.
It's at least two peices of timbers. All I can add is you'll need some hefty hinges.

vakis · **Posted:** Tue Dec 01, 2009 9:26 am

Hurray! Life!

Hello lady Lilith how are ya?

I have a question if you can kindly oblige, do you think soft neoprene rubber would be adequate for this job?

I suppose the rubber has to be a bit soft...? Like the material below of a mouse pad, I think that's neoprene..

Tomorrow we're taking final measurments for the doors! So excited! In a week or so i'm gonna be able to refer to these boxes officialy as rooms.

Cheeers

vakis · **Posted:** Mon May 31, 2010 6:07 am

Hey there,
It's been some time since my last post. That's because there haven't been much changes since then.
The carpenter stood me up, over and over again, and because of him for 4 months nothing whatsoever happened..
The most unprofessional person I have ever met in my entire life, he never answers his phone, and he always lies about his deadlines. We finally "agreed" for him to finish the doors and windows, and from what it seems he's not capable of even doing that, coming once every two weeks screwing 10 damn screws and leaving. I'm so pissed with the situation so I'll just stop here with my rant.

To the building subject now. I decided to take matters into my own hands and make the inner construction of the studio myself. That includes all the reflectors, basstraps, slats, soffits and so on.

I've almost finished the live room with the shaping, only a few things remain regarding the shaping of the live room.
I've began work on the soffits of the control room and the side angled walls. I'll also upload a sketchup file some time later on.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated cause I'm totally alone in this now and i could use opinions more than ever.
At least i'm learning a bit of wood working through this...

So here's an update on pics! Everything regarding the inner shape of the room is my attempt at woodwork.
As you can see from the images of the control room structure it's not a perfect square, because of a pipe that's going through the side. I'll ask for some feedback on this when I upload the sketchup file, regarding the shaping of the back of the control room.

Vakis

vakis · **Posted:** Mon May 31, 2010 6:12 am

more pics...

vakis · **Posted:** Mon May 31, 2010 8:47 am

And here's the sketchup file!

It's a simple design, the soffits are to be made per johns designs, but with super chunks instead of hangers, cause of the limited space. Basically everything is going to be with super chunks, slats in the front of the control room.

-I'm not sure if i should just use cloth in the back of the room, or use slats again..
-Also should I use a diffuser in the back? Or put an extra bass trap on top of the backwall?

I was thinking about the ceiling which is really low.. 2.25 meters - 7.38 feet.
Here are my thoughts and please tell me which one you find more appropriate:
-Straight cloud made from 2"x4" covering the whole front of the control room up to a bit behind the listeing position.
-Same size, but with thinner wood so that i can tilt the cloud a bit, with the high point just behind the listening position.
( I can't angle the cloud very much because than the door that goes to the live rom wouldn't open.)

Any thoughts??

Thank you!

vakis · **Posted:** Tue Jun 01, 2010 12:41 am

anyone...?

John Sayers · **Posted:** Tue Jun 01, 2010 9:28 am

Vakis - forget the diffuser - heavy insulation treatment on rear wall and that low ceiling.

vakis · **Posted:** Tue Jun 01, 2010 10:01 am

Hi John!

Should I also add a big bass trap on the backwall? I'ts an inside out construction and the depth of the backwall is only 9cm.

Also, I didn't quite understand what you're saying about the ceiling.

Should i just leave it as is? (9cm depth of insulation)

Or add 1. Straight cloud 2. Thinner angled cloud?

Thank you for your reply.
I appreciate it.

Vakis

John Sayers · **Posted:** Tue Jun 01, 2010 10:50 am

One way of gaining extra depth for the rear wall is to build a frame leaning forward so it's 300mm out at the top and fill it with insulation.

I'd wait to see how it sounds before trying the clouds - if you are inside out and there's 90mm insulation that should be enough.

vakis · **Posted:** Tue Jun 01, 2010 11:19 am

Very well, I'll make an extra frame panel that's 30cm away from the top of the wall. And fill that with superchunks i suppose?

Regarding the clouds I'll see how it sounds later on.

I've uploaded a pic just to verify what i understood is correct.

thank you.

John Sayers · **Posted:** Tue Jun 01, 2010 11:36 am

yup - that's it.

vakis · **Posted:** Tue Jun 01, 2010 12:15 pm

Excellent! thanks!

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