Sam’s room proves that you can achieve equal representation of all frequencies if you are willing to give up large amounts of surface area using absorption. Diaphragmatic absorption that was custom designed and built by Sam to achieve high rates of absorption. If your room size and volume falls into the red zone, and you can not find another room size for whatever the reason there is a solution. You must be prepared to give up large amounts of space, have a budget that will be large enough to produce the required treatment and spend many hours in the tuning process.

As you can see by the photos and video on this project page, you can place our products in either a horizontal or vertical position. Think of your room as a glass of water. You have too much water (” low frequency”) in your glass or room. We have to lower the water level in the glass, so that we can hear more clearly. We can lower the water level by dropping sponges or diaphragmatic absorbers into our room or glass. We need to first decide on the correct number of sponges/absorbers and then position them in the areas where they will absorb the most.

Red Zone

The red group are rooms that produce so many low, middle, and high frequency energy issues, that large amounts of absorption treatments are required. There is not enough space for diffusion in terms of surface area or distance for wave lengths to fully form. It is the room sizes that are below 2,000 cu. ft. in total volume. The large amounts of treatment surface area, especially in the lower frequencies, will take up so much space that you might not be able to work in it.

Yellow Zone

The yellow group of room sizes is from 2,000 – 4,000 cu. ft. This group has the necessary space to allow for enough low, middle, and high frequency absorption along with enough space for diffusion. You have the space to place the appropriate low frequency absorption technologies and enough distance for diffusion to work. You will still have issues, especially in the low end but they can be predicted and managed.

Green Zone

The third group (green) of room sizes and volumes is greater than 4,000 cu. ft. It is an ideal grouping of width, height, and length to allow for almost any usage wanted. These rooms have enough distance to allow for appropriate management of all reflection time signatures, unwanted modal pressures, along with enough distances to allow for diffusion to do its job correctly and allow for all diffused sound wave forms to fully form.