arcadeko
Illuminatius Overlordious
desk position can be tricky - there is the 38% rule, the symmetry rule - which are both recommendations. Everything I have seen says corners are bad for monitors. But the real problem is you can't tell until you actually get it set up and test it.
I have done a huge amount of acoustic treatment, installed about 12 panels so far. I still have major problems from the COMB effect.
It's a pain in the ass to test it, but try this - if you haven't already download REW or something with a frequency tone generator in it that will just cycle from like 40Hz to 10khz every 30 seconds or so. Then run that in your monitors and move around the room. In certain places you will get peaks and nulls where a certain frequency seems to get really loud or really quiet - and it will change depending on where you are in the room.
If the place where you are sitting while mixing has some major spikes or nulls then you need to try and reduce those, with either A) Bass or broadband traps, or B) moving your monitors (and possible mixing desk too).
This is the essential goal of all traps - to try and reduce the COMB effect which causes the peaks and nulls in specific frequencies - these come from the waves bouncing off surfaces and interfering with each other.
So - The reason I recommended the corner traps is because that is where bass (the hardest frequencies to deal with) naturally congregate and placing traps there will give you the most effective results.
If you can afford it I would get another case of the 24x48 and make 4 more 2x4' panels for placement around the room. You have to stop those bass waves from bouncing around. If you make those panels free-standing (use 1x6's for the base) then you can move them around which can be helpful during recording.
I don't record live drums so I dunno about the corner, although I see many people record drums in small iso rooms, so I dont think corners would be a problem. I would take the free standing panels and surround the kit while recording, build a stonehenge around it with bass traps - then when mixing, move the traps around the room to kill the reflections and soak up the bass.
These are all broadband traps by the way, not just bass - they absorb all frequencies - and that's good
anyway HTH
I have done a huge amount of acoustic treatment, installed about 12 panels so far. I still have major problems from the COMB effect.
It's a pain in the ass to test it, but try this - if you haven't already download REW or something with a frequency tone generator in it that will just cycle from like 40Hz to 10khz every 30 seconds or so. Then run that in your monitors and move around the room. In certain places you will get peaks and nulls where a certain frequency seems to get really loud or really quiet - and it will change depending on where you are in the room.
If the place where you are sitting while mixing has some major spikes or nulls then you need to try and reduce those, with either A) Bass or broadband traps, or B) moving your monitors (and possible mixing desk too).
This is the essential goal of all traps - to try and reduce the COMB effect which causes the peaks and nulls in specific frequencies - these come from the waves bouncing off surfaces and interfering with each other.
So - The reason I recommended the corner traps is because that is where bass (the hardest frequencies to deal with) naturally congregate and placing traps there will give you the most effective results.
If you can afford it I would get another case of the 24x48 and make 4 more 2x4' panels for placement around the room. You have to stop those bass waves from bouncing around. If you make those panels free-standing (use 1x6's for the base) then you can move them around which can be helpful during recording.
I don't record live drums so I dunno about the corner, although I see many people record drums in small iso rooms, so I dont think corners would be a problem. I would take the free standing panels and surround the kit while recording, build a stonehenge around it with bass traps - then when mixing, move the traps around the room to kill the reflections and soak up the bass.
These are all broadband traps by the way, not just bass - they absorb all frequencies - and that's good
anyway HTH