G'day again
So lately I've read alot of the threads we have here about room treatment, I've read the links within them and I understand the crux of it: kill all first, early and direct reflections + bass traping= the shit.
My main reason for wanting to treat the room is not for the vocal and guitar recording I do here, but more for the mixing I try to do.
I've noticed lately that my high and mid frequency detail is not improving much, and due to the flutter echoes and definate comb filtering, I'm also struggling with depth perception and creation in mixes.
Knowing that is all well and good, untill I take my eyes away from the screen and have a look at my room.
Being previously built and used as my sisters beauty salon, it isn't your typical bedroom, rehersal room or studio control room.
Here's my dilema: room shape and fixtures. These pictures will demonstrate it better than I could with words.
From the main entrance door:
From the unused end of the room:
A closer look at what is directly behind the mixing position:
The mixing position:
In experimenting with some moderate volume music, I've noticed the following things:
- Due to the size of the room, the only bass concerns I can find are that I get about a 40-70Hz buildup in the corners (near the door, when it is shut, in the corner of the kitchen and the two walls at the far end of the room).
- Due also to the size of the room, I don't feel there is a huge impact to the mixing position from the bass building up at the corners, though I am open to being proven otherwise
- Flutter echoes and comb filtering occur at my mixing position
- My monitors are not at the ideal height, though the sound of them at the correct height is quite fatiguing with the presence of the previously mentioned flutter/ comb filtering.
What I've considered is to eventually treat the corners, but as mentioned before, my main concern is the direct mixing position.
Would it work if I was to build a "dead room within my room"? That is, at either sides of my desk errect a pannel that follows the depth of the desk, then attatch another pannel across the top of the tow sides to create a dead ceiling.
That idea has come about due to the obvious large amount of surface area I would have to cover if I worked the room as a whole, and the fact that I am pretty stuffed in creating a dead ceiling surface due to the lights and central heating/ cooling ducts right above where I sit.
Moving my desk to the other side of the room will not really make a difference, there are lights and ducts there also.
Some things to note:
- I've measured my listening position and found that I am at the 38% distance of the width of the room
- The room is 3.5m wide, 5.5m from the kitchen bench to the end of the room, 7m from the entry door to the end of the room.
Will my small dead space idea work?
So lately I've read alot of the threads we have here about room treatment, I've read the links within them and I understand the crux of it: kill all first, early and direct reflections + bass traping= the shit.
My main reason for wanting to treat the room is not for the vocal and guitar recording I do here, but more for the mixing I try to do.
I've noticed lately that my high and mid frequency detail is not improving much, and due to the flutter echoes and definate comb filtering, I'm also struggling with depth perception and creation in mixes.
Knowing that is all well and good, untill I take my eyes away from the screen and have a look at my room.
Being previously built and used as my sisters beauty salon, it isn't your typical bedroom, rehersal room or studio control room.
Here's my dilema: room shape and fixtures. These pictures will demonstrate it better than I could with words.
From the main entrance door:
From the unused end of the room:
A closer look at what is directly behind the mixing position:
The mixing position:
In experimenting with some moderate volume music, I've noticed the following things:
- Due to the size of the room, the only bass concerns I can find are that I get about a 40-70Hz buildup in the corners (near the door, when it is shut, in the corner of the kitchen and the two walls at the far end of the room).
- Due also to the size of the room, I don't feel there is a huge impact to the mixing position from the bass building up at the corners, though I am open to being proven otherwise
- Flutter echoes and comb filtering occur at my mixing position
- My monitors are not at the ideal height, though the sound of them at the correct height is quite fatiguing with the presence of the previously mentioned flutter/ comb filtering.
What I've considered is to eventually treat the corners, but as mentioned before, my main concern is the direct mixing position.
Would it work if I was to build a "dead room within my room"? That is, at either sides of my desk errect a pannel that follows the depth of the desk, then attatch another pannel across the top of the tow sides to create a dead ceiling.
That idea has come about due to the obvious large amount of surface area I would have to cover if I worked the room as a whole, and the fact that I am pretty stuffed in creating a dead ceiling surface due to the lights and central heating/ cooling ducts right above where I sit.
Moving my desk to the other side of the room will not really make a difference, there are lights and ducts there also.
Some things to note:
- I've measured my listening position and found that I am at the 38% distance of the width of the room
- The room is 3.5m wide, 5.5m from the kitchen bench to the end of the room, 7m from the entry door to the end of the room.
Will my small dead space idea work?
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