I put some superchunks up yesterday...

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

...and the difference is huge. Now I regret I didn't do it at the last place I was at.

I couldn't stack them all the way up to the ceiling yet because I haven't got a proper way to support them now, but I still managed to stack up 50kg of concrete slab wool in the front corners and they tame the low-end a LOT.

For anyone who's working in small room and still not sure whether to do it or not, do it now!

 

[Soundlurker]

Hear, hear!
Ermz and I have been preaching this for a while. You're welcome to join the club

superchunks = win

 

[vespiz]

+1

 

[Nebulous]

I can't wait to join the club!

 

[Ermz]

Yep - only way to go in smaller rooms. Mass, mass, mass.

 

[AD Chaos]

Been meaning to ask..

So YOU get the bass tamed for your mixes.. people outside the room perceive less bass as well? (tr- become less annoyed by the brootz?)

 

[vespiz]

And the thing is.. it's so easy, cheap and effective. What's not to like?

Well, yeah, it eats up space..

 

[Nebulous]

Has there been any research into the ideal mass or dimention for any given room, or is it a case of deeper/wider superchunk= lower effective frequency?

What size is the "hypotenuse" of everyones superchunks?

 

[Nebulous]

I would imagine that people outside the room would also hear less of the bass peaks caused by the rooms inherent acoustics, given that they are being "leveled out" so to speak.

 

[006]

Pics Jarkko.

 

[AD Chaos]

What? No... you just hear a more true representation of the low end in your mix man.

I know what bass traps are for - but it seems pretty logical it could add some dampening to the exterior for those lows as well (as a side benefit) no?

 

[Soundlurker]

What size is the "hypotenuse" of everyones superchunks?

Mine are 78,1 cm (60x50x78,1), i.e. you cut a piece of rockwool to 2 equal halves of 60x50 and then you cut these diagonally. This means that the resulting pieces aren't a isosceles (weird word) triangle but honestly when mirrored symmetrically it looks great.

 

[vespiz]

I know what bass traps are for - but it seems pretty logical it could add some dampening to the exterior for those lows as well (as a side benefit) no?

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/studio-building-acoustics/578248-outside-effect-treated-room.html

 

[AD Chaos]

Thanks for that vespiz - interesting stuff

 

[DanLights]

Let's suppose I'm a moron and don't know what superchunks are, like I care just point me to where I can buy some please

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

Pics Jarkko.

Yeah, I'll get some pics up but the room won't be cosmetically finished in a while. Everything's up and running and the acoustic treatment is pretty much up, but shit's covered in black plastic, no curtains yet and so on

 

[ahjteam]

Let's suppose I'm a moron and don't know what superchunks are, like I care just point me to where I can buy some please

+1


Won't be applying it to this room tho, but the next one.

edit: I just google and it seems that it's a DIY solution where you first cut rockwool plate in half then cut those halves from corner to corner to get two triangles. Then stack those.

 

[AD Chaos]

Let's suppose I'm a moron and don't know what superchunks are, like I care just point me to where I can buy some please

DIY
http://www.radford.edu/~shelm/acoustics/bass-traps.html

 

[vespiz]

Yeah, that's pretty much it You can do your own variation on the theme.
The main thing is that you use a load of material on it.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php...28038396491&set=a.12433226491.21375.706851491
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php...491.172301.706851491&pid=4290923&id=706851491

 

[DanLights]

oh so super chunks is like a codename for bass traps? Got it, that's all I needed to know, thanks haha