Hello from upstate New York

[AvantGuy]

...as in a ten minute swim to Canada!

This forum sure is a cabal of expertise and experience!

I don't DIY audio anything like I did in the ol' days, but I'm going to be building a home studio and I know I'll need some help with it. It's mainly a mixing-room / project studio and I want to do some serious acoustic treatment. I took a scan through the forums and I didn't see it as its own category, but the vibes here tell me there's all the expertise I would ever need.

For years I've been filling my free time with music-making pursuits but can still tell the difference between an electrolytic capacitor and a shotgun shell .

--AvantGuy

[c2cthomas]

Hello AvantGuy - and Welcome to diyAudio!!!

It's a bad time of year to be swimming over to Canada for a visit - but keep on the lookout for Canucks on ice skates and wearing hockey outfits attempting scouting probes for the impending invasion.

Acoustic treatment for most of the inmates here usually consist of some extra padding in the cell walls although some have taken the concept to higher levels and might share their findings.

Are you building / adding the studio or tossing stuff up onto existing walls?

[AvantGuy]

Thanks for the shout out, c2cthomas. The "cell-walls" - , right.

Originally Posted by c2cthomas

...Are you building / adding the studio or tossing stuff up onto existing walls?

I just moved to this century-old house, and I'll be enlarging an existing room by removing one wall (and adding absorbers/diffusers/basstraps/carpets/etc I need, to the point, if necessary, of covering every square inch). That will extend this soon-to-be-former bedroom into the foyer (second floor stairway landing) and to the staircase from the first floor (and, when I leave the doors of the other three bedrooms and bathroom open, to those as well ).

I'm wondering what impact on LF standing waves, etc., that change will have (I can't imagine it being adverse) before adding any basstraps, and specifically if I can theoretically compare that approach to knocking down the other wall instead, which would create the standard oblong box.

In other words, I'm not totally sure adding irregularly-shaped new air volume to the room will be as good as changing from a square box to a standard rectangle of twice the volume of the existing room. I'd go the irregular route if I could be confident it'd be even "almost as good" as the oblong box approach.

So, there it is, c2cthomas; you think I'll live?

--AvantGuy

[planet10]

Hi,

Can you sketch it out for us?

dave

[AvantGuy]

Originally Posted by planet10

Hi,

Can you sketch it out for us?

dave

Sure, Dave. Should I open a new thread somewhere else? I'm not sure which forum'd best, though. Probably General Interest >> Everything Else. Right?

[planet10]

Probably a good idea. That is the only place it fits.

dave

[AvantGuy]

Originally Posted by planet10

Probably a good idea. That is the only place it fits.

dave

I'll do that. In the meantime, got a question (did some searches but couldn't find anything about this): The automatic logoff inactivity-timeout seems a bit aggressive. I may have missed it, but it does not seem user-settable. Is it? Or, might I have another issue?

--Bob.

[c2cthomas]

Originally Posted by AvantGuy

I'll do that. In the meantime, got a question (did some searches but couldn't find anything about this): The automatic logoff inactivity-timeout seems a bit aggressive. I may have missed it, but it does not seem user-settable. Is it? Or, might I have another issue?

--Bob.

Hi Bob, the automatic logoff will kick in if you wonder off and visit another site or have been inactive for awhile. I'm not sure how long the time period is regarding inactivity but if I know that writing up something is going to take a fair amount of time I generate my response with [your word processor of choice] and then "cut and paste" it into the message box. This method allows me to edit things - look up links or articles - go to the fridge etc. and not be concerned that the masterpiece I worked on disappears into the bit bucket.

Hope this helps.

I'm writing up a PM for you about your studio project as I have to many questions to post here.

[AvantGuy]

That's downright gentlemanly, c2c (is that, by any chance, like sea-to-shining-sea?) !!

On the timeout-thing: Well, where it's been nailing me is simply while I'm browsing threads. I'll hit some embedded images I want to view and, pow!, I'm no longer logged in. As far as the server is concerned, there's been no activity as I'm just scrolling my browser down a long page of posts, reading, ever so intently and slowly (I think, I speculate).

--Bob

[jackinnj]

Upstate for my in-laws is anything north of Baychester Avenue.