where is that natural reverb coming from, anyway? (A Bob Womack question)

[zenpicker]

Originally Posted by Brent Hutto

As a listener to solo guitar music I tend to prefer undamped open strings, open tunings and miscellaneous sympathetic overtones to a choppier playing style covered up by real or post-processed reverb. So you're pretty much on the mark to my ears.

Thanks, Brent - I think if I back the mikes off I will probably have a sound I'm pretty happy with.

[Fran Guidry]

Originally Posted by zenpicker

Rick, what kind of gap do you have between panel and ceiling? I saw a comment elsewhere that the gap should equal the thickness of the panel, which means I would lose 4" of ceiling height in an already low ceiling.

The gap improves the broadband absorption performance by a few percent. If you need the headroom you can reduce the gap. The primary use of the overhead cloud is to kill early reflections rather than broadband absorption.

Panels straddling every corner including wall-ceiling corners and even wall-floor corners will give you the most bang for the broadband absorption buck.

Fran

[zenpicker]

Originally Posted by Fran Guidry

The gap improves the broadband absorption performance by a few percent. If you need the headroom you can reduce the gap. The primary use of the overhead cloud is to kill early reflections rather than broadband absorption.

Panels straddling every corner including wall-ceiling corners and even wall-floor corners will give you the most bang for the broadband absorption buck.

Fran

I've got a lot of stray Auralex hanging around, already mounted to masonite. Is that useful for cloud and/or corners, or is it the wrong sort of stuff?