Post by mythundreamt on Aug 19, 2024 14:34:42 GMT -6
Would love some advice. Currently I am in a 12.5'x16' beautiful music room with a 5'8" foot long analog console placed at the optimal point, with ATC 25s set up in more or less the right way. The room is treated with 17 tall acoustic panels, which cover about 40% of the vertical walls. No cloud yet. There's a big couch, many amps and cabs and mics and two racks, so all in all it gets a bit tight and nocturnal - but it's beautiful and sounds fine. Good enough for my one-man one-room home studio aspirations.
Now we've made some life changes and I can suddenly switch to a big open room upstairs if I want. 16.7' x 19.5', same ceiling height of 10'. I'm excited! It would allow the gorgeous console to sit in a stately way it was meant for (its a Wunderbar) and I could possibly some day upgrade to ATC 45s. But, there are some serious problems. All the sound treatment panels placed together would cover just one big wall, and the rest of the room has a big bookshelf on one side (yay diffusion!), a built-in counter top (that the ATCs fit perfectly on coincidentally) with cabinet doors above and below (so can't treat there) and a big window that lets in so much light, but can't be treated. Finally, the room has no door so it leads to the hallway by way of one wall just being half missing. I'll attach a crude diagram.
Should I do it? Or is the openness and space gain overall a massive sonic loss?
Now we've made some life changes and I can suddenly switch to a big open room upstairs if I want. 16.7' x 19.5', same ceiling height of 10'. I'm excited! It would allow the gorgeous console to sit in a stately way it was meant for (its a Wunderbar) and I could possibly some day upgrade to ATC 45s. But, there are some serious problems. All the sound treatment panels placed together would cover just one big wall, and the rest of the room has a big bookshelf on one side (yay diffusion!), a built-in counter top (that the ATCs fit perfectly on coincidentally) with cabinet doors above and below (so can't treat there) and a big window that lets in so much light, but can't be treated. Finally, the room has no door so it leads to the hallway by way of one wall just being half missing. I'll attach a crude diagram.
Should I do it? Or is the openness and space gain overall a massive sonic loss?
Attachments:
