Don't know where to start

[ivseenbetter]

I'm working on building my Theater Room. The room I am using is upstairs on the second floor of our house. I modeled it out the best I can using the google Sketchup program. If you want to look it is located here: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehou...ae3294e4529063

Anyway, if you don't want to look at it, the measurements are roughly 16' wide by 29' long with slightly less than 9' tall. It has a small offshoot from it on the side. I really keep reading how important room treatment is but I don't know where to begin. I keep hearing about having to use mics to calibrate and complicated programs to measure response curves (that I can't figure out how to read), and reflection points. Is there a "for dummies" guide to walk me through this? I want to address this and I want to learn "why" I would do this but I don't know where to begin.

Thanks

Chris

[eugovector]

An overhead floor plan, with proposed speaker locations would be helpful. The very generic advice is to cover as much of the front wall as possible with 2", i the side walls with 1-2" at the reflection points,2-4" spaced of the back wall for bass trapping, and superchunk bass traps in every corner you can. If your floor isn't covered, you need a rug, and 2" on the the ceiling should hurt either, especially if your center sits above your screen.

With that off-shoot, you'll want to maintain as much symmetry around your front as possible.

Oh...and where to begin is reading up on all the thread here in the acoustic forum. It will take a while, but will be very informative.

[bpape]

On the rear wall, I generally like to use a reflective surface bonded to the absorbtion so it's still bass absorbtive but the surround field stays nice and lively. FSK or FRK works well in this application.

Bryan