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Sonnie wrote:
 That's a thought there Josuah... that might could work without much resistance from the ladies. |
I am not sure dealing with just your ceiling only will do the trick. Remember that most of the vocal activity happens closer to the floor, and with air absorption and the distance from the floor to the ceiling, I am not sure the ceiling would be contributing much to your echo problem. I have to agree with Wayne on this one, you must treat the area above the rail to even make a dent in this kind of room with long parallel bare walls and bare floor. Even if you do treat the areas above the railing, you are going to have a significantly audible floor bounce if you decide to use musical instruments in this room.
I am really an acoustical nazi. When my church updated its smaller sactuary/concert room's sound system, I insisted that we do some extensive acoustical treatment to tame some nasty echo's that were audible in certain parts of the room, and the dryness in other areas( hotspotting) I met with tremendous resistance from some of the women of the church, the very folks that complained about the acoustical problem in the first place. My answer to them was "either you have a very pretty acoustically untouched room where you cannot here a thing in some spots, and too much in other, or you allow me to take both the acoustics and aestetics(sp?) into consideration and correct the problem". I also stated to them that it would be of no use upgrading the sound system if you didn't correct the hotspotting thoughout the room, its a waste of money you would be stuck with the same problem you were trying to correct. I won out rather quickly.
It has to take some folks to get so annoyed with a problem, that there own personal aestethic desires take a back seat. I cannot see how you can improve the acoustics without treating the upper 2/3 of that room.