Acoustic Panels - How high off the floor?

[ruckus328]

Hey guys, just finished building my panels and realized: "shit, how high up do I mount these?" Bottom of my monitors are about 40" off the ground and they're a foot tall. Panels are 2' x 4'. Ceiling is 8' high. Do I want to mount them so they're about centered vertically with my monitors?

 

[Nebulous]

Will you be putting them on the wall behind and to the sides of the monitors, or corners? How many pannels in total?

 

[Nebulous]

On second thoguht, just have a look around here: http://www.realtraps.com/

 

[Loki Laufeyiarson]

A trick I know for placing acoustic panels is this:
You sit in you listening position and have someone else slide a mirror over the walls in your room. Every place where you can see your monitors in the mirror is a good place for a panel.

Wether it's a good one, I'm not sure, but somehow it does make sense to me.

 

[ruckus328]

Will you be putting them on the wall behind and to the sides of the monitors, or corners? How many pannels in total?

2 directly in front, 2 left & 2 right of monitoring position, 1 Left & 1 Right slightly behind me, 1 on wall behind me turned sideways, & 4 basstraps. 2" Foam going on ceiling because the ceiling can't support a trap. Celing slopes behind me, putting a mixture of absorption & diffuser panels on that part.

I'm using 36 2" sheets doubled up for 4" thick. It pretty much covers the whole room horizontally but not vertically.

I know about the mirror trick, was thinking that's for horizontal placement, didn't dawn on me it would work for vertically too..

DOH! I'm a moron.

 

[newamerikangospel]

The mirror trick is perfect for first reflections. From reading, it sounds like you are using one foot square panels (aurelex type). I would say find the first reflection points, and us that as the middle of four panels. That always seemed to give the best results in my experience.

 

[Pharaoh's Curse]

What I thought of when I seen this thread..