tore the studio down yesterday...

GONZO-X

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ah, sundays.....
a wide open day with nothing to do but..... frikin' everything!!
LOL
chores, yard, car, etc....

i said phuck it.

i've been meaning to re-arrange my studio ever since i started on the 'elemental' project...
but wanted to wait until that was finished, hate changing horses in the middle of the stream...

NOW, granted, my studio is small, but stripped down and built for speed of production, for my own purposes...


so, now that elemental is done (at the cd printers now...),
i decided to take everything completely out of the room,
and re-arrange it.

i've got speaker cabs i'm not using anymore,
a demeter isolation cabinet that is basically just a great big ship anchor,
i've got my last set of monitors that i can't seem to bear to let go,
i've got power amps i don't use, mic preamps i dont' use,
just a bunch of collected crap!!

so i boxed it all up, using the collection as my first serious bass trap (i cannot afford to properly treat my mix/track room, but i do have SOME treatments, including using IK Multimedia ARC room correction software, which really works well)...

found a new position in the room to set the video and playback monitors,
new positions for everything, basically everything now is a mirror image of what it was, as well as rotated 90 degrees in the room...

wow, much better.
i still have some excess low end coming off the monitors, because the wall behind them is hollow, and i'm in the middle of the long wall, instead of at the end of the room on the short wall, as before.


the takeaway:
yes, moving positions in any room changes the sound you hear,
sometimes worse, sometimes better.

but often times than not, cleaning house and getting rid of spider carcasses and dust and whatnot is worth the effort all by itself.
 
How long had the studio been in its previous incarnation ?

i'd say, since 2018. i've moved positions twice before.
this one seems to be the best for the space.
it's funny,
i'm using jbl 305's (5" driver) and i STILL have too much bass!! hehe,
which i guess is a good thing, vs not having enough.
 
i'd say, since 2018. i've moved positions twice before.
this one seems to be the best for the space.
it's funny,
i'm using jbl 305's (5" driver) and i STILL have too much bass!! hehe,
which i guess is a good thing, vs not having enough.

Bass traps behind them (rear-firing ports)?
 
Bass traps behind them (rear-firing ports)?

no, i need some.

as it is, i have two very large (covers entire wall) 'SOUND ABSORPTION SHEETS' made by AudiMute,
and that helps with everything EXCEPT the frikin' bass!
LOL

i think 2" deep would be enough just for those two locations.

before the move, i was pulled out off the wall by 28",
but now im in the shallow part of the room, and can't pull back.
i do have settings on the monitors to compensate somewhat.
then the ARC software does the rest.
 
I've got 4" traps behind my 305s, just a few inches between the ports and traps, but everything set flat on the monitors themselves.
 
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