So I just moved into a new place and am gearing up to put a little studio in my bedroom. It's oddly shaped however and I was looking for some advice.
The Room is 11' 3''x14'5" and has two closets on one end that are both 3'x2'x7'
The Rooms has a drop ceiling, I'm not sure how that affected acoustic properties but the room is pretty dead because of that and also because of the thickish carpeting.
I was thinking of putting the monitors facing the bed 64 inches (38% of the room) away from the wall with the door and closets. I am a little concerned because of the window on one of the long walls and the closets. Not sure if this uneven symmetry will affect my monitoring.
I plan on trapping the corners with some DIY corner fills and putting some DIY broadband traps on the wall to wall corners and early reflection points. I also though of picking up a Diffusion Tile from Real Traps and putting it on the back wall.
About the deadness. The carpeting sucks. I was thinking of just laying wall to wall plywood as A) im on a tight budget and B) I am renting and don't think my landlady would approve of hardwood. I was also thinking of Mabey DIYing a diffusor by bending some plywood. I saw and article by Ethan somewhere where he did this (I think it was Ethan.)
Another problem is I am right on a highway that gets a ton of log truck traffic and my concrete foundation is a continuos branch of the highways concrete, meaning we get some serious rumble every time a log truck goes by. Anyway of making these low freq stay out of my room or am I stuck tracking in the evenings when the trucks are off the road.
Anything else I should be worried about? Am I on the right track? I've been involved in two previous studio projects. One was in a very well treated room but my partner handled all of that before I moved in with the gear. I've always been the one in the group that know the mixing and tracking and mic tech, now I'm going solo and feeling overwhelmed trying to get the room treatment and computer tech down. any comments would be of help I'm sure.
The Room is 11' 3''x14'5" and has two closets on one end that are both 3'x2'x7'
The Rooms has a drop ceiling, I'm not sure how that affected acoustic properties but the room is pretty dead because of that and also because of the thickish carpeting.
I was thinking of putting the monitors facing the bed 64 inches (38% of the room) away from the wall with the door and closets. I am a little concerned because of the window on one of the long walls and the closets. Not sure if this uneven symmetry will affect my monitoring.
I plan on trapping the corners with some DIY corner fills and putting some DIY broadband traps on the wall to wall corners and early reflection points. I also though of picking up a Diffusion Tile from Real Traps and putting it on the back wall.
About the deadness. The carpeting sucks. I was thinking of just laying wall to wall plywood as A) im on a tight budget and B) I am renting and don't think my landlady would approve of hardwood. I was also thinking of Mabey DIYing a diffusor by bending some plywood. I saw and article by Ethan somewhere where he did this (I think it was Ethan.)
Another problem is I am right on a highway that gets a ton of log truck traffic and my concrete foundation is a continuos branch of the highways concrete, meaning we get some serious rumble every time a log truck goes by. Anyway of making these low freq stay out of my room or am I stuck tracking in the evenings when the trucks are off the road.
Anything else I should be worried about? Am I on the right track? I've been involved in two previous studio projects. One was in a very well treated room but my partner handled all of that before I moved in with the gear. I've always been the one in the group that know the mixing and tracking and mic tech, now I'm going solo and feeling overwhelmed trying to get the room treatment and computer tech down. any comments would be of help I'm sure.
