AlanRatcliffe
I'm moving into a new house in 4-6 weeks' time and am busy planning my studio/workroom, which is a decent sized room - 6 m x 4 m x 3 m (LxWxH). This is quite exciting to be able to do after a year squeezed into a small room where I couldn't do any decent acoustic control as we had the house on the market.
I'm planning basically a LEDE room, with chunk bass traps in 3-1/2 of the corners (the fourth has the door, so I can only do the upper corners), absorbers at all the reflection points and rear wall and maybe some diffusion mixed in on the side walls at the rear of the room (playing position).
I'm also planning a cloud over the mix position, but have one small concern - the ceiling is angled from 3.25 m high at the mix end of the room, down to 2.8 on the live end. Obviously this will affect the positioning of the cloud, moving it back a little, but that's not my issue. Now I'm wondering about the best angle angle for the cloud - usually I would space it from the ceiling with the same size gap as the cloud is deep (50mm), but I find myself wondering if I should hang it horizontal to the floor rather than the ceiling, or even angle it in the opposite direction to the ceiling. Logic says that the more oblique the angle, the more absorber the sound waves have to go though, and the lower the frequency attenuated. On the other hand, hanging the cloud horizontal will produce a cavity behind the cloud which varies in depth, also affecting the frequency spread of the absorption.
So, what would you do and why?
AlanRatcliffe
Acoustics can be fairly predictable ...if you know what you are doing. But yeah - good point! :-[ I can fly it on chains, and if I use hooks, it'll be easy enough to adjust.
