Soundman2020 - Studio Design Forum

That makes sense Glenn thank you. Today I got the other baffle and speaker box fully MLV'd and installed. It's much easier and faster once you know how! This time no shims were required for millimetre perfect alignment. I even became more proficient at cutting the MLV out around the speaker hole in ...

Thanks Glenn, that makes sense, I'll try to make that happen once the side baffles are in place. In terms of sound, aside from the obvious bass boost due to the speaker being in a wall, it might be my imagination but I'd swear I can hear the room sound and other ambience in recordings more clearly, ...

6726 nicely done! now hurry because we want to know how it all sounds :-) :jammin: LOL! I'm on full speed ahead at the moment trying to get as much as possible done before a busy week of sessions starting on Tuesday. Hopefully I'll get this done on the other speaker tomorrow. Alas, "soft"...

Getting the speaker boxes together. As Stuart suggested, I have some cooker hood insulation to line the inside of those to reduce resonances within the box. Fitting that will be fore another day though. The test fit showed the shelf was at a slight angle, tilting the speaker box forward. A 2mm shim ...

After I cut the speaker holes in both baffles I cut the inside edge of both to match the drop from the sloped ceiling. It has a bevel of 26 degrees, and so will the baffle on the side, allowing for a "hidden" join. Talk about a pressure cut, if I messed these up all the good work done prev...

Cutting holes in the baffles to match the speaker is tricky. Here's how I did it. Screw the router router template to the speaker box, then shim it out a bit to allow for the gap between speaker box and baffle. 2024-02-29 16.58.42.jpg Remove the speaker - easily done by lifting it out through the re...

Thanks Glenn, yes indeed, if required there's enough room in those speaker boxes to fit an isolation assembly like the one you showed. They are well screwed together so no need for glue. I'm even more impressed with the isopods now I can observe their behaviour when sitting on those very rigid shelv...

As the Genelec speaker isopods give some benefit in reducing the transmission of low mid frequencies to the structure they are mounted on, I decided against bolting the speakers to their shelves. I had them on the isopods before, and it was ok then, so if it ain't broke, don't fix it. A problem with...

It's great when you get those moments of musical satisfaction after all that work.

Cheers!
Jennifer

gullfo wrote:Qr Bbpost are you going to paint them? maybe the fractal from your main monitor?

That would be well trippy! Afraid not though, I'll just be painting them the same cream colour as the walls

I've sawed the side wall and sloped edges of the soffit baffle faces. A little bit tricky due to the bevels required. I thought the best way to figure out where to cut the inside edge was by attaching these baffles to the soffit structure then dropping a plumb bob from the corresponding edge on the ...

eightamrock wrote:Qr Bbpost Thoroughly impressive! Im still hanging drywall :/

Thank you! Well it's a big place you have, and doing the drywall is a big job, especially when you have to do several layers

I had a recording session today so had to get the room back into working shape. I really like the way it's coming together. I love the sound of the speakers in those locations, and I can see the soffits are going to improve the tidiness and professional look of the room without consuming useful spac...

The test baffle has a rectangular hole for the speaker, but the speaker is egg shaped, so this won't do. I built an MDF router template for cutting speaker shaped holes in the final MDF baffle faces. It's sized and shaped to give a few mm clearance around the speaker so the baffle face won't touch i...

Speaker boxes coming along. I drilled an 80mm diameter hole for the upper duct and a smaller hole for cables and DIP switch access. There will be another 80mm duct hole in the bottom of the speaker, but I have to wait until later in the build until I determine the exact location of the speaker box s...