Accostic traetment and where?

[Steve ignorant]

How do I find out how much accostic traetment I need and then where would I put it once I did?

This is for a live and monitor room.

hit me!

 

[Matt Crooks]

You didn't state your goals. Are you looking to increase isolation, to remove flutter echo, tighten bass response, etc. Once you know what you're looking to do, the following sites may be of some help:

www.auralex.com - check out their site, as well as their acoustics 101, and acoustics university

www.soundcontrolroom.com - this is the firm that is helping design my new rooms, they also sell products and have good free advice on their site.

www.realtraps.com - some good articles there

www.rpginc.com - they sell diffusors and building products, and they have a lot of technical white papers.

www.acousticalsolutions.com - they sell most acoustic products.

Check out the acoustics forum in www.recording.org


That should be enough to confuse you for a while

 

[Steve ignorant]

That recording.org looks hot to trot!

 

[Hopkins-WitchfinderGeneral]

Boomph as the the man said it depends what accoustic deficiancies exist in the room you wanna treat really.

 

[Andy Sneap]

I've just fitted some real traps in studio b, its worked out pretty well actually.

 

[Steve ignorant]

I've just fitted some real traps in studio b, its worked out pretty well actually.

What do you mean real traps? As apose to fake ones?

 

[Ermz]

I've just fitted some real traps in studio b, its worked out pretty well actually.

You mean an actual dummy wall instead of those half-assed tube-shaped corner bass traps?

To the thread starter... yeah, as has been said, it depends on what sonic deficiencies exist within the room.

As a general rule of thumb however you don't want parallel walls in the control room, as you want to maximize the randomness of reflections. If you're after the Live End - Dead End setup then deaden the front of the room with all the foam you can muster and have a diffusion board behind the mixing position to help scatter those reflections a little bit. You'll probably want to find out if you're getting any standing waves in the room and then get some bass traps to target those particular frequencies... if I'm not mistaken the highs will get taken care of by foam anyway. It's bass that can be problematic... especially in small rooms.

 

[Matt Crooks]

What do you mean real traps? As apose to fake ones?

Real Traps is a brand name of bass traps...

And for a LEDE room, it needs to be fairly big. Having a live end, 3 feet behind the mix position can cause all kinds of problems.