Jam rooms - What size is ideal?

flatfourfan · 2013-04-08T16:07:43+00:00

We've recently moved house and I have the bonus of having a maids quarters that's been gutted. It's about 4 x 4.5m with a damn high roof. Reckon I can make this work as a jam room for 4 piece including a drummer? I can extend it by about another meter on one side, but then I'd loose my gardening storage room. Advise?

AlanRatcliffe

flatfourfan wrote I've been using a room mode calculator and to get any type of improvement would call for losing some serious space. Is it really going to be worth it though?

If you have to lose a lot of space, then no.

I used to have a program for designing studio rooms that would run through all the permutations in minutes, trying all the combinations and giving you the best options for the available space. Usually it would come up with a few solutions that would leave the room nearly the same size, but make a big difference to the sound. Sadly it wouldn't run on anything newer than Win 98 though.

warrenpridgeon

Alan Ratcliffe wrote
flatfourfan wrote I've been using a room mode calculator and to get any type of improvement would call for losing some serious space. Is it really going to be worth it though?
If you have to lose a lot of space, then no.

I used to have a program for designing studio rooms that would run through all the permutations in minutes, trying all the combinations and giving you the best options for the available space. Usually it would come up with a few solutions that would leave the room nearly the same size, but make a big difference to the sound. Sadly it wouldn't run on anything newer than Win 98 though.

I have a legal copy of win98 if you want it?

IceCreamMan

I have recently started playing with a band, one of the members have converted a car garage into a rehaearsal room..i guess garages are around 15 sm metres and with 4 of us in it it works well ..not cramped but we going thru a PA cept the bassist......

it is a good size and seems to work very well.

even a 5th member would not make it overly cramped.

Attila

In Win7 you can run old apps in compatible mode ......might work for you

flatfourfan

Alan Ratcliffe wrote
flatfourfan wrote I've been using a room mode calculator and to get any type of improvement would call for losing some serious space. Is it really going to be worth it though?
If you have to lose a lot of space, then no.

I used to have a program for designing studio rooms that would run through all the permutations in minutes, trying all the combinations and giving you the best options for the available space. Usually it would come up with a few solutions that would leave the room nearly the same size, but make a big difference to the sound. Sadly it wouldn't run on anything newer than Win 98 though.

Yup, it calls for a drop of almost 30cms on the roof as well as close to 20cm along 1 wall. I'm hoping that some wall panels as well as bass traps will help me out a bit. A

Any idea what that program was called?

AlanRatcliffe

RPG Room Sizer - I just found a demo version, but the install won't open on Win 7. They also had an optimiser that worked out the sweet spots for your speakers and listening position.

AlanRatcliffe

You do get the big software packages like EASE that architects use. But they require a lot of knowledge to run.

flatfourfan

I've given the guy a shout who built the room where I got my sound panels from and he's agreed to come over and give me some pointers for a call out fee of R450-00.

He said that he'd be able to do me a design for a basic room (4 walls and a ceiling) as well as suggestions on speaker/ drummer placement/ bass trap and wall/ ceiling mounted sound panel placement as well as sizes. I told him straight that I do not want to lose any interior space.

I've given him my sizes and he said that straight away it's not ideal, but that he would get at least a 20-30% improvement over a room that has just been slapped together by myself.

R450 for an improvement of between 20-30% sounds reasonable to me.

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