I'm in the process of getting my loft studio together, and am casting about for how to treat it since I'm getting close to being at the point where I can start on that. It's in a fairly open-concept cathedral-ceiling (least, that's the American term for it) building, and I haven't been able to find much for treatment strategies for a room of that shape. The area of my studio is roughly 3m x 6.5m, the ceiling is roughly 3.2m at the center. The entire room is roughly 6.5m x 10m (and actually sounds quite nice).

Room EQ Wizard says I currently have a null around 100Hz and resonances at around 40Hz (suspect that's actually the porting on my speakers),and somewhere higher, I can't remember offhand. My mixes have been coming out quite bass-heavy lately, so change is needed...

The whole rig is torn down at the moment while I prep the subfloor for the actual flooring, so I'll be trying different speaker locations and orientations before I put it all back together.

Pictures are always helpful, right?




(Railing is forthcoming too!)

Note that yes, the speakers were pointed in too far, and need to come up on proper stands. That whole table shakes when the kick drum hits, so that's clearly a problem! I'm going to try to set up so they fire down the 10m length of the room, but my spouse is resistant to obstructing the window, so I may still end up sideways...

My first thought is some rockwool absorbers between the roof beams around head height, maybe 4" thick with 4" of airspace behind.

Any suggestions on treating a space like this?

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My first thought is some rockwool absorbers between the roof beams around head height, maybe 4" thick with 4" of airspace behind.

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That should work well, particularly to kill the early reflections at the mirror points.

However, in my experience of working in loft studios the roof itself can let quite a bit of bass out. I'd concentrate on putting traps in the floor/roof corners at where you have that unused 'triangle' of space, since it could well be the wall reflections that you're measuring rather than roof reflections.

Hope this helps!


Martin

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Thanks Martin. It gives me a place to start, which is always a help.