Hello!
I'm currently in the process of setting up my home studio in the attic room. I went through yet another rearrangement of the space and now I'm committed to putting solid effort into monitor positioning and acoustic treatment of the room, before deciding where to sleep and where to keep my clothes. I've done lots of reading and experimenting with different setups before (up to the point where I treated the room with absorbers so heavily, that I felt as if I sat in a submarine) but I still wouldn't consider myself an expert, so I'd appreciate any suggestions as to how to set myself up in this cozy space.
So the room looks like this:
FRONT WALL
REAR WALL
TOP VIEW
FRONT VIEW
So the decision about placement would be pretty straightforward to me, if not for the fireplace chimney which you can see in the first photo on the right (it's also visible in the first schematic in the lower-left, the other rectangle is a 95cm high staircase railing), since it introduces asymmetry in the room response. I'd welcome any suggestions on how to approach this in terms of positioning and treatment. The ceiling is wooden, back and front walls are concrete and the chimney is obviously hollow with metal inside and plaster outside.
Since space is quite limited here I was thinking about putting monitors on shelves attached directly to the rear wall. I'd like to know if it's a good practice and if it requires some special acoustic treatment.
I'd also welcome any recommendations of articles regarding do-it-yourself diffusers and absorbers. I don't want to spend lots of $$ on the things I can do myself and I happen to have a small woodwork workshop downstairs.
Thanks in advance. This is my first post on this forum and since I do loads of homework on producing, mixing and mastering I feel I might become a regular. Cheers!
Filip
I'm currently in the process of setting up my home studio in the attic room. I went through yet another rearrangement of the space and now I'm committed to putting solid effort into monitor positioning and acoustic treatment of the room, before deciding where to sleep and where to keep my clothes. I've done lots of reading and experimenting with different setups before (up to the point where I treated the room with absorbers so heavily, that I felt as if I sat in a submarine) but I still wouldn't consider myself an expert, so I'd appreciate any suggestions as to how to set myself up in this cozy space.
So the room looks like this:
FRONT WALL
REAR WALL
TOP VIEW
FRONT VIEW
So the decision about placement would be pretty straightforward to me, if not for the fireplace chimney which you can see in the first photo on the right (it's also visible in the first schematic in the lower-left, the other rectangle is a 95cm high staircase railing), since it introduces asymmetry in the room response. I'd welcome any suggestions on how to approach this in terms of positioning and treatment. The ceiling is wooden, back and front walls are concrete and the chimney is obviously hollow with metal inside and plaster outside.
Since space is quite limited here I was thinking about putting monitors on shelves attached directly to the rear wall. I'd like to know if it's a good practice and if it requires some special acoustic treatment.
I'd also welcome any recommendations of articles regarding do-it-yourself diffusers and absorbers. I don't want to spend lots of $$ on the things I can do myself and I happen to have a small woodwork workshop downstairs.
Thanks in advance. This is my first post on this forum and since I do loads of homework on producing, mixing and mastering I feel I might become a regular. Cheers!
Filip