Hello-
After all the help I got hear building my first pair of studio monitors (I will never go back to off the shelf crap again), I'm remodeling my studio and I'm looking to start with the most important part- The monitors (and their room).
I have a room (used to be my bedroom) that i am going to turn into my control room. It is 8' cieling, 9.5' wide and about 20' deep. I'm thinking about drivers (I'm an active man myself) for now but the 1st thing I need to get going in my plan is placement and soffit mounting.
So my main question is, what are the benefits of soffit mounting? And what is the optimum wall for this? I can afford to loose a couple of feet say about 3 at the most for the soffit wall. My room will have standing waves now at 30hz in the long direction so-
I want the wall to also be a bass trap (possibly a helmholtz resonator tuned to 30hz) and an equipment rack to show off power amps for the active system.
So should it be flat (the wall) and reflective (drywall)?
Should the speakers be slightly recessed into the wall eg if you were looking at it from the top should it be a sort of \_/ with the speakers in the sides?
should the wall itself be made out of a fir-ed out absorbant material eg semi regid fiberglass or even memory foam (expensive but high nrc ratings at lower frequiecies) or should it be as solid a wall as possible-
Would it be better to build the drivers flush mounted right into the wall? Or better to use somthing to decouple them from it?
Again my point is to have an extreemly consistant room- one where you can walk around and while the imaging might change the overall tonality will remain consistant. Any ideas-
Or should I avoid soffit mounting all together?
Thanks
Ryan
After all the help I got hear building my first pair of studio monitors (I will never go back to off the shelf crap again), I'm remodeling my studio and I'm looking to start with the most important part- The monitors (and their room).
I have a room (used to be my bedroom) that i am going to turn into my control room. It is 8' cieling, 9.5' wide and about 20' deep. I'm thinking about drivers (I'm an active man myself) for now but the 1st thing I need to get going in my plan is placement and soffit mounting.
So my main question is, what are the benefits of soffit mounting? And what is the optimum wall for this? I can afford to loose a couple of feet say about 3 at the most for the soffit wall. My room will have standing waves now at 30hz in the long direction so-
I want the wall to also be a bass trap (possibly a helmholtz resonator tuned to 30hz) and an equipment rack to show off power amps for the active system.
So should it be flat (the wall) and reflective (drywall)?
Should the speakers be slightly recessed into the wall eg if you were looking at it from the top should it be a sort of \_/ with the speakers in the sides?
should the wall itself be made out of a fir-ed out absorbant material eg semi regid fiberglass or even memory foam (expensive but high nrc ratings at lower frequiecies) or should it be as solid a wall as possible-
Would it be better to build the drivers flush mounted right into the wall? Or better to use somthing to decouple them from it?
Again my point is to have an extreemly consistant room- one where you can walk around and while the imaging might change the overall tonality will remain consistant. Any ideas-
Or should I avoid soffit mounting all together?
Thanks
Ryan