Hey guys,
I recently moved to a new apartment where I can finally make some sort of studio/music room all for myself - YAY!
However, I would like to acoustically treat it as like most house rooms does not sound great at all; in fact, I must say that both listening to music, mixing and playing guitar are quite affected, there's some kind of high-end reverberation going on, and at the same time a certain muddiness in lows and mids.
So I wanted to ask the help of more experienced people
I never investigated the topic much, but from what I have seen I am already breaking some golden rules:
- one should avoid simple ratio between the different dimensions of the room; mine is 2.80 by 5.60 meters, so I guess a ratio of 1 to 2 is as bad as it goes (ceiling is 2.40 m, but that seem sufficiently independent of the other measures; oh, and walls are solid concrete, if it matters)
- the speakers should face the longer side of the wall, but in my case that would mean have the desk in front of the window and cutting out all of the light; so I have to have them face the shorter side of the wall
I made a little sketch to show how the room will be roughly organized. I should be able to put bass traps on each corner, but I am not sure if I can put panel in the back if hanging my guitars too (that's not been done yet, so I still can do that accordingly).
Every recommendation will help (well, almost - changing house again, for instance, is not really applicable )
I imagine the treatment would also help for guitar playing, right? Containing some boominess at least?
Thanks a lot for any help!
Cheers,
Simone
I recently moved to a new apartment where I can finally make some sort of studio/music room all for myself - YAY!
However, I would like to acoustically treat it as like most house rooms does not sound great at all; in fact, I must say that both listening to music, mixing and playing guitar are quite affected, there's some kind of high-end reverberation going on, and at the same time a certain muddiness in lows and mids.
So I wanted to ask the help of more experienced people
I never investigated the topic much, but from what I have seen I am already breaking some golden rules:
- one should avoid simple ratio between the different dimensions of the room; mine is 2.80 by 5.60 meters, so I guess a ratio of 1 to 2 is as bad as it goes (ceiling is 2.40 m, but that seem sufficiently independent of the other measures; oh, and walls are solid concrete, if it matters)
- the speakers should face the longer side of the wall, but in my case that would mean have the desk in front of the window and cutting out all of the light; so I have to have them face the shorter side of the wall
I made a little sketch to show how the room will be roughly organized. I should be able to put bass traps on each corner, but I am not sure if I can put panel in the back if hanging my guitars too (that's not been done yet, so I still can do that accordingly).
Every recommendation will help (well, almost - changing house again, for instance, is not really applicable )
I imagine the treatment would also help for guitar playing, right? Containing some boominess at least?
Thanks a lot for any help!
Cheers,
Simone