New HT Project: Construction questions

[hddummy]

It is shaping up quite nicely!!!

[bpape]

Very nice. Congrats on getting that portion done. Excellent set of pics showing the progress. That's going to look really sweet when the screen wall/screen are done.

Bryan

[MatrixDweller]

Looks awesome. How does it sound with all of those treatments up?

[Prof.]

It's looking good Duc..and the equipment rack looks to have turned out fine..
What did you put on or over the front wall insulation to make it black?

[DucatiR]

MatrixDweller wrote:

Looks awesome. How does it sound with all of those treatments up?

MatrixDweller, the sound improvement is remarkable. In Dark Knight Batman shoots his goo-bombs onto a building in Hong Kong. I found myself startled and looking to the left as he fired his gun and then the sound of bomb sticking to the glass in the front center. That same scene did not sound nearly so clear pre-treatment.

Prof. wrote:

What did you put on or over the front wall insulation to make it black?

Prof., at a local fabric store I picked up 'speaker grille cloth' for $9.99/yd minus my 40% off coupon. I probably didn't need to do the whole wall since not all of it would be visible behind the screen.

I now have the screen frame up and ready and also installed my behind screen lighting effect.

Here is the skeleton screen frame before painting. Estimated screen weight is 30lb so I didn't think I needed a rock solid frame attached to all surfaces. The beam is made of 2-1x4 oak pieces laminated together to minimize vertical sag. It is attached to the vertical struts with a plate made for fence/deck construction.




And a picture after painting the frame elements I thought might be exposed to the projector image behind the screen. The unpainted wood pieces will be used to staple speaker cloth across the openings.


I have seen several pictures of lighting behind acoustically transparent screens and have attempted to set up that effect. I used led puck lights that can be plugged into an outlet.


The cover of the puck light removes easily enough. But why?


I wanted a blue light effect to match the blue rope light around the riser. This shot shows a comparison of the puck light with blue glass over the top. One with the white cover in place beneath, the other with the cover removed. Considerably more light come through without the diffuser cover as one might imagine.


I found the glass at a local stained glass business. Since the pucks are out of view I just went with square cut pieces which were considerably cheaper than having them cutting circles or me fruitlessly trying. I attached the glass to the led puck with a few beads of clear silicone.


The pucks were mounted behind the oak beam on a piece of scrap wood screwed into the frame.



Here is the screen wall with light accents and the screen frame painted.


My anamormphic lens is sitting at the post office waiting to be picked up. Projector is on a truck somewhere. And the screen is supposed to ship on Tuesday.

[Ted White]

Wow. Love the blue a lot!

[Bruce Fisher]

Nice - that looks great! I like the Blue... I saw those pucks at Lowes (or HD, can't remember) and was thinking about using them. Hadn't thought about the blue though! I like it!

[Prof.]

DucatiR wrote:

Prof., at a local fabric store I picked up 'speaker grille cloth' for $9.99/yd minus my 40% off coupon. I probably didn't need to do the whole wall since not all of it would be visible behind the screen.

A lot of people do cover the whole front wall insulation with the black cloth..even though you won't see it it..
I'm a bit of a cheapskate, so I just covered the bits you might see!.

I found the glass at a local stained glass business. Since the pucks are out of view I just went with square cut pieces which were considerably cheaper than having them cutting circles or me fruitlessly trying. I attached the glass to the led puck with a few beads of clear silicone.
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The pucks were mounted behind the oak beam on a piece of scrap wood screwed into the frame.
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Here is the screen wall with light accents and the screen frame painted.
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The blue lights look cool!..
With the screen in front, it should look quite spectacular..

[patchesj]

Looking good! Love the blue pucks, please take a few pictures of them once you get the screen in place. Have you had any issues with sound traveling in the duct work?