Use of Double Pane Sliding Glass doors

earthstardude · Post by **earthstardude** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 3:08 pm

Hi Folks. Building a studio in Woodstock, NY....got the gear, now it's time to make the space. We are floating our floors off cement, using densely blown cellulose insulation in the exterior wall cavities, decoupling amp iso chambers, hardwood resonators on several walls, bass traps, etc....We just settled on a control room layout and it seems that what will work best to get in and out of the control room - 16x14x10 (trapezoidal ceiling) - as well as the vocal iso room - roughly 12x9x7(sloped 8'-6') pentagonal shaped, with 3 Sonex walls, and ceiling - will be the use of 5 foot wide double paned sliding glass doors. The pentagonal iso room will basically have two adjacent walls as sliding glass doors....We are assuming that we will use two sliders in the gap between the control room and iso room, and then another two between the iso room and the live room, 22x18x12. Basically, to get to the control room, you will have to walk through the iso room, which is no big deal and will actually help us all in terms of the energy flow and open feel of the space. My question is: What are the positive and negative effects of using large paned glass surfaces? Are there any diffusion devices that can be made to adhere to the glass surface? We are assuming we will put each slider out of parallel to the second unit, for sure. Please assist, good people!!

earthstardude · Post by **earthstardude** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:15 am

Hi Folks,

Anybody care to reply to this??!!

Eric

Sword9 · Post by **Sword9** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:46 am

RPG makes clear plexiglass diffusors. Be prepared to pay for them though.

knightfly · Post by **knightfly** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 2:56 am

If budget is tight and you can tolerate moving things around, might try a pair of portable gobo's with un-backed 4" mineral wool, placed a few inches away from the glass at first reflection points while mixing... Steve