NeveSSL
Got tubes?
Hi all!
I am getting closer to graduating college (MS... graduate next fall... my wife finishes her BS this coming spring
) and also getting closer to getting a house.
My wife and I are both into music rather heavily and will be doing a studio in our basement. My plan is to also add a substantial tank to the basement.
I have a lot of questions about large plywood tanks and I'm not 100% sure where to get good info. If anyone has any links or advice they'd be willing to share, that would rock!
As far as questions go, is there a guide somewhere that goes over what thickness of glass to use with what height/width/depth of tank? If I can keep my tank at 1/2", I can save a TON over 3/4" (3/4" is $32/sq ft locally where as the 1/2" is $15! This is Starphire, FWIW ).
Also, the reason I'm doing a plywood tank is because I need to arrow it for one main reason: Acoustics.
I plan on this thing going in the back of my control room, which means it will be directly facing the speakers. If I have a flat tank, it will bounce the music right back to me which makes for bad mixing. Unless, of course, I put acoustic treatment on the tank... but I think my fish would miss the view.
If I angle each side of it (sort of like and arrow pointing into the room) then it will deflect the sound into my walls, where I most definitely can put acoustical treatment without messing with the fish too bad.
I'm not sure of the angles because we don't have a house yet and I don't know what we'll be dealing with yet. However, my question is this: How would I do that corner? I would prefer it not be 90 degrees like a corner because that doesn't look good at all and also will take up too much space. I'm thinking more along the lines of 30 degrees or so, but that will be determined by the size of the space. So ultimately, how would I do a less than 90 degree angle with the least amount of interference? IE, I don't want to have to make a 1 ft column just to join everything at that corner.
I hope that makes sense.
Anyway, back to the subject at hand... if anyone has any links to building plywood tanks, whether build threads that are detailed or how to web pages, please do feel free to share! I've got some time before this project comes to fruition, but I'd like to try to figure out as much as I can first.
Brandon
I am getting closer to graduating college (MS... graduate next fall... my wife finishes her BS this coming spring
) and also getting closer to getting a house. My wife and I are both into music rather heavily and will be doing a studio in our basement. My plan is to also add a substantial tank to the basement.
I have a lot of questions about large plywood tanks and I'm not 100% sure where to get good info. If anyone has any links or advice they'd be willing to share, that would rock!
As far as questions go, is there a guide somewhere that goes over what thickness of glass to use with what height/width/depth of tank? If I can keep my tank at 1/2", I can save a TON over 3/4" (3/4" is $32/sq ft locally where as the 1/2" is $15! This is Starphire, FWIW
).Also, the reason I'm doing a plywood tank is because I need to arrow it for one main reason: Acoustics.
I plan on this thing going in the back of my control room, which means it will be directly facing the speakers. If I have a flat tank, it will bounce the music right back to me which makes for bad mixing. Unless, of course, I put acoustic treatment on the tank... but I think my fish would miss the view.
If I angle each side of it (sort of like and arrow pointing into the room) then it will deflect the sound into my walls, where I most definitely can put acoustical treatment without messing with the fish too bad. I'm not sure of the angles because we don't have a house yet and I don't know what we'll be dealing with yet.
However, my question is this: How would I do that corner? I would prefer it not be 90 degrees like a corner because that doesn't look good at all and also will take up too much space. I'm thinking more along the lines of 30 degrees or so, but that will be determined by the size of the space. So ultimately, how would I do a less than 90 degree angle with the least amount of interference? IE, I don't want to have to make a 1 ft column just to join everything at that corner. I hope that makes sense.
Anyway, back to the subject at hand... if anyone has any links to building plywood tanks, whether build threads that are detailed or how to web pages, please do feel free to share! I've got some time before this project comes to fruition, but I'd like to try to figure out as much as I can first.
Brandon
