I've got a ten foot ceiling... and a living room 24x20 feet. I feel blessed. Thank you for the info!

thanks for the content its helped me.

The first time, during my journey with treating my room, that I climbed a ladder with music playing... I was astonished how much sound energy was mulching around up there! Thanks again for chatting on the phone with me this week! (bayard) Cheers!

You say the 7-foot ceiling is worse than 8 foot ceiling but when using a bolt area calculator it shows that 8-foot ceilings puts me out of the bolt area but a 7-foot showing puts me into the bolt area(15X10X8 ROOM) I'm confused....

Dennis is my absolute hero~ I would love to intern with him or have him as mentor one day

I think the best solution for an eight foot ceiling is to build a 2x4 "cage" in the room. Once braced it won't be invasive to the actual stucture, especially if you're renting. I'm thinking of doing this at the next place I'm moving into. 2x4 cage with floor to ceiling corner traps, diffuser rear wall, sidewalls and ceiling treatment hanging a couple inches from the walls and ceiling on the cage at listening position. Also a room in the midde of the house will hopefully let the low frequencies "escape" through the thin walls (if you can set yourself up like that) just letting the treatment deal with 80hz and up hopefully. I feel like this would work as an ideal and realistic setup tell a proper studio/control room can be built.

Thankfully the basement in the house I'm looking at is 9 foot. Unfinished basement, my studio will be around 25x18. I'm really looking forward to the build for my studio that will be used 95% for drums.

Hi, Did you already make a video on how sound travels on acrylic or plastic (thick gallon) surfaces? please let me know. Thanks.

Those who have low ceilings the disadvantage can be turned into an advantage by building a line source speaker. A line source that extends from floor to ceiling becomees acoustically infinite due to matching floor and ceiling reflections. Only bad side is, no commercial ready solutions obviously exist so a little DIY is required.

Hi D. We have a movie theatre. Don't want to deal with a separate C room. Want to track AND mix in the auditorium. Those Dimensions are 45' W x 55' L x 24' H. The floor is carpet over two layers of sub-flooring over 2X10 joists over the original concrete floor sloping from one to three feet below. The 50' walls are con block core and 1940-50's non-asbestos panels covering. One 45' wall with drywall and offices behind has a balcony beginning 11' above Aud. floor . Balcony extends back another 24' to a wall behind which are projection rooms, etc. The other 45' wall hosts the proscenium with a full curtain (35w x 20h) covering the screen. Ceiling is plaster over lath with massive timber joists with a cavity above. The desk and speakers can be located anywhere within the room that they will operate best. I'm thinking of using near fields as close as possible at the desk (the space is absorbing the energy from small units quickly). Although they will be necessary, we have no idea for a larger playback monitor as to size and placement. The music being produced is primarily Rock with an unusual degree of dynamic range. It can get very loud. It can be very soft. Detail in listening is important. We are experienced players and listeners. We hope to release commercially. We are analog to a great degree in practice and spirit. What do you think?

So glad I found this channel.. I'm moving into a house, have several rooms to choose from to use as my home theatre/ listening room. The ideal room (as far as ease to set up) is a W14ft X L14ft X H9ft. All concrete walls, ceiling and floor. Help!? I'm coming from a beautiful 12ft vaulted ceiling with a 26ft L X W16ft Listening space.

@acousticfields Dennis, I have an 8 foot drop down ceiling, when I removed a tile and poked my head up there....the ceiling space goes up to about 10 feet. This being the case, am I still plagued with the height problem? Should i take those thin foam tiles out of the ceiling or do they not matter? This is my Dual purpose, Mixing & Recording room. It's 12x15x8 and my SPL is about 73db. Thank you D

I have a ceiling that pitches up from 8’6” to 12’ over a length of 16’. Is that going to work for me with treatment, or against me entirely, with or without treatment on the ceiling?

I'm looking at a tiny home, about 50 - 60sqm, any suggestions on an inexpensive but good way to soundproof it?

I have a 7ft ceiling currently in my basement with the acoustic tiles. I'm about to remove them. It will give me a height between the joists at a little over 8ft. Does that make a difference, removing the tiles, or doesn't it matter? Total room is 24 ft long, and 11 ft wide. I planned on 2 in foam tiles at my surround sound refection point, but I'm new to this and on a tight budget. Thanks for the videos.

Tall line arrays can also address the ceiling issue.

I have a crazy room. A-frame to 14-15ft.The angle is about 35 degrees. There is a dormer on one side of the room with a window(I know..bad juju) that's about 5'W and 8'H

How about a dome shaped room, with large diameter?

mine are 7.4 tall ceilings.luckily it sounds fine.

Do the PVC drop ceiling tiles absorb or reflect the Mid and high range frequencies

Is it feasible to remove the drywall and put treatment in the joist cavities then maybe recover with a better material than drywall ?

Ugh, so I dont even have 7ft, I have a basement with a drop ceiling at 6'8", So there is probably 10-12 inches above the drop ceiling in areas for some absorption and I can reinforce the drop ceiling to accommodate the weight, but it sounds like this is the best I will be able to do. Wish I had a better choice of rooms :(

I'm trying to figure out treatment for my listening room at homs. 8.5 foot ceilings, drywall one side, big bay windows on the other... I think I might just get a nice pair of headphones and be done with it... Lol.

Tip: When building a HT/studio in your basement, use the entire ceiling height right up to the floor. The joists add 14" of additional height and the cross beams act as natural diffusers. Then fill the entire ceiling with absorptive material covering the 'second' (lower) ceiling with permeated diffusion, with enough energy to reflect mid and highs for a mor neutral sound.

I currently rent a house with 9 feet ceiling, but they made these drywall decoration ceilings near the walls. It's like 1.5 feet wide and reduces the ceiling to about 8.25 feet but in the middle of the room it's 9 feet. Is something like this bad for sound or neutral? Or even beneficial? It's a concrete ceiling under the drywall.

Assuming the lowest point of ceiling is at least 10'-11', will a vaulted ceiling works better than a flat ceiling? Or is it the other way around?

is this info meant for live instruments or for mixing/mastering?

So I have slightly more than 7 feet in my garage that I plan on converting to a studio. Should I just not bother? Maybe take up basket weaving instead? :)

I'm designing a home. I want a room for recording a small choir. Let's say that I create a room that is 14' high. What should the length and width of that room be? Would 14' be high enough? What are the golden dimensions for me?

Thank you for posting on this subject! I’m stuck with an 8’ ceiling and can’t find any recommendations for listening position height other than NOT in the vertical center (48”). Is it better to put the listening position a littler higher, at say 52” with the acoustical axis of the monitors at the same height or is below vertical center better? My room is roughly 10x12 with 8’ ceilings (half the back wall is 11.5’ and the other half is 12.5’). The floor is currently carpet (will likely be hardwood in the future) walls are drywall and 3 of the 4 walls are facing the exterior of the home and have concrete blocks just on the other side of a thin layer of dense insulation. The 4th wall has an air gap between the next room’s drywall. I’d love any “ideal” vertical height recommendations since I’m in the middle of doing tons of room measures with REW while I redo my room. Thanks in advance!!

I'm glad that most new homes today are going with 9 ft ceilings.

A 4 meters height is quite a luxury, you don't see that often in Europe.

So just to be clear, it's not so much that 8ft is some horrid number mathematically, but that it doesn't leave enough space to do any treatment?

14 feet?! Are you for real? :))) That's almost a double floor space already

i have my setup in my basement...2m(6 1/2 ft) high ceilings. yes im miserable

according to your own words, if 80% of the acoustical problems in a room are due to side wall problems, then why bother with a sealing of 14 foot?