Don't Do This! #3 - www.AcousticFields.com

[@bc527c]

You have to appreciate how he made up for the lack of a window on the left side with a mirror.

[@angiewizefool]

😂😂😂😂

[@NinJa-yg7kh]

Thank You Dennis.. Your voice is getting better and getting strong compared to last time.. Respect

[@AcousticFields]

There are good days and bad days. Recovery is like room response. It goes up and down in real time.

[@oldestpunkinargentina7766]

@@AcousticFields Sad to hear you're having a hard time recovering. But you do soud and look more like your old energetic self. Long live the master !

[@Amzegal]

I'm a complete beginner on that subject and just came across so many contradictory DIY and lessons on acoustic treament. This helps a lot to clarify. Thank you so much. Be sure I will not put my desk behind the window in my next studio. ;)

[@doyleshafer]

AJ (Acoustic Jesus) drops another golden nugget!!!

[@doyleshafer]

#4 is a diamond in the rough. If the ceiling accounts for 15-20% of room sound, I wonder the percentage the floor accounts for since it is typically the closest room boundary to your ears. In fact, lining the floor with plywood rectangles partially filled with activated carbon might be a solid idea. Say 3 inches of depth, filled with two inches of activated carbon + 1 inch of air? I've never seen a project that addresses the entire floor so it makes you wonder.

[@Oneness100]

If needed, Dennis does build essentially the same design that they use in the walls into the floors and they design to what the data and usage requires. Remember, if you dig out the foundation, you have control over how deep you go and what design you use. He discusses in his CAW video. I think he's either in the middle or at the end of a large build project designing rooms for pianos and he's building his technology into the floors since pianos have a lot of energy going downward and the floor is typically only about 2ft to 3 ft at most.

[@doyleshafer]

@@Oneness100 You are right, I saw that the day after I posted ; ) Really interesting stuff. Considering how little floor treatment is mentioned (not just in these videos but in general), it seems like an afterthought/or the least of one's worries...and it is possibly the most un-fun aspect of a typical listening room build. Pour X-amount of concrete for your slab, then build a CAW onto of that. Yowza! That Hugh gentlemen hired AF to built an incredible listening room but I can't remember much being mentioned regarding floor treatment. I will build a home theater once my family moves into our new home. I have the money for the design fee but it's pointless to request services until I know exactly what my room details will be. Still fun pondering all the possibilities ; )

[@Oneness100]

The same percentage I believe.. 6 surfaces divided into 100 is 16.666, or roughly 17%. One surface might change it's percentage maybe due it's surface area. A larger surface area might increase a little compared to a smaller surface, but I think Dennis can validate this. But it's in that 15% to 20% ball park for each surface..

[@carlitomelon4610]

I signed up for the newsletter days ago. Still no confirmation email....

[@patrix_guitar]

In my homerecording studio the right wall is a door and than 2 closets (that stand in the room). So am i right to place my speakers with equal Distanz to left Wall and the closet?

[@arbolrosa]

How come pro studios always have a window in front of the console?

[@arbolrosa]

Behind*

[@AcousticFields]

The benefit of seeing and communicating with talent outweighs the sonic costs.

[@JayBeBerg]

What if you have a huge room and only use part of it for monitoring, would movable gobos work as 'walls'?

[@AcousticFields]

You can use a variable acoustic format where you use absorption and diffusion panels. You create a mix room when mixing then move the panels around the instruments you are recording in the live room. People use our ACDA series for this format. www.acousticfields.com/product/acda-10-studio/

[@JayBeBerg]

Acoustic Fields Thanks. So symmetry is only essential without absorption and diffusion?

[@samo8204]

My room is 15'X16'X9'6" ALL hard surfaces. What will raising my subwoofer up off the ground do?

[@AcousticFields]

No, but you should have it raised anyway by 18".

[@organikarts]

thanks!!

[@AcousticFields]

You're welcome!

[@ryanpellico6083]

I followed all your guidelines but I'm stuck with a 7 foot ceiling basement concrete😞

[@AcousticFields]

Unfortunately, you will have to live with certain frequency and amplitude issues. You can treat the sidewall to sidewall, front to rear wall issues but you will have to live with the floor to ceiling issues. LF treatment takes up 8-10" of space.

[@MonkeyBars1]

Actually that looks like carpet floor

[@honeyken316]

And the sub speaker is on the floor in the corner!

[@AcousticFields]

Good catch. We missed that one.

[@paulwelding]

Not many people have rooms without windows 😐

[@AcousticFields]

We are here to tell you what works best for sound quality. Windows are the worse surface area you can have in ant critical listening room. They must be treated.

[@juntin810]

tip: get a wife or girlfriend who’ll let you have an “ideal” room to begin with.

[@AcousticFields]

This suggestion would make the process involved much easier.

[@VSMF]

Tip: Do not get a woman, since it's not worth it at all.

[@mr.lovraj]

❤❤❤...from india

[@Temumusic]

Folks.. stop wasting your time... I’m gonna tell you the honest truth. Seriously cause I know too many of y’all are broke like me. if you got a foot of space around the perimeter of your studio, or at least the front wall, and you’ve already got a ton of fiberglass/mineral wool panels, STOP WHAT YOURE DOING AND BUILD THEM DAMN BDAs!! I built 3 on my own to start with. I’m talking down dirty Nyc apartment style with flaws, slightly off measurements from the lumber shop and all lol. And It’s just .... f**cking MAGICAL! The most incredible lowend clarity I’ve ever heard in a homemade music/studio environment. Snapped right into place. No carbon or premium foam either (tho I hope to afford it someday) just following the AF principles as best as I can and setting myself up for the premium material if the day comes. Even my wife can’t unhear it. She WANTS me to build more of them!!!WOWOWOWOWOWOWOW.. As far as I’ve researched, the bda is the only sophisticated diaphragmatic absorber design that’s available to build yourself.Thanks so much for making this available to us Dennis!!

[@worldsyoursent.1635]

💪💪💪💪

[@AcousticFields]

Thank you for your support.

[@bc527c]

People seem to have a hard time accepting how damaging glass is to sound. So I'll tell a story. First, in my small room, the first I treated, I was dealing with some really bad high frequency reflections via some absorbers above the speakers... Then I figured out it was a window causing the evil reflections, I treated the window(s) and experienced about the most radical change/improvement of any changes I've made. So I became a big advocate of treating or banishing windows. So I moved on to the big room and there is a window in a bad spot (right side first reflection), I covered what seemed like the important parts with absorbing units and it improved a lot, so I thought I was good... over a year later (4 days ago) and I'm trying to finally figure out why the sound stage is out of balance, which it shouldn't be, and why the 3d part of the sound stage doesn't quite develop fully. I was outside walking past that one window 4 days ago and heard the same sound signature I heard from the small room window (higher pitch than the activating music and very screachie). My brain started to go on about how that's the crap you look for to solve.... and after a few steps I said to myself, so solve it... so I did and it fixed the sound stage completely and finally brought the rig to the level it should be. Everything counts. Windows suck.= (so do walls, doors, furniture, any 5 or 6 sided volume.... the list of acoustic traps is endless)