My little studio has two windows in it. The one at the top of the drawing doesn't concern me much because it's centered (for the most part) between the monitors. The window to the left of the mixing position troubles me, however, because it's very large and (probably) creates a major asymmetry in the room.
In one of Ethan's videos, he dealt with a control room window by building a plywood/fiberglass diffuser on the wall directly across from it. He had to do that, though, because the window he was dealing with was between the studio and the control room and would therefore not be covered with anything. My window, on the other hand, looks out into my front yard and the street, so I have shut out the world with a fairly thick drape. (I don't want people watching me croon and croak at my microphones, and I want to keep my neighbors guessing about what's making all the weird noises coming from my house.)
Here's the question: Am I likely to get a decent result by hanging a big panel of rigid fiberglass on the wall directly across from the window, or is that just going to exacerbate the asymmetry of the room? I doubt, for instance, that the drape on the window is really absorbing much sound. More likely, the waves are going through the drapes and reflecting off the window back into the room. Perhaps I should set a piece of rigid fiberglass on the window sill behind the drape? Whadayathink?
In one of Ethan's videos, he dealt with a control room window by building a plywood/fiberglass diffuser on the wall directly across from it. He had to do that, though, because the window he was dealing with was between the studio and the control room and would therefore not be covered with anything. My window, on the other hand, looks out into my front yard and the street, so I have shut out the world with a fairly thick drape. (I don't want people watching me croon and croak at my microphones, and I want to keep my neighbors guessing about what's making all the weird noises coming from my house.)
Here's the question: Am I likely to get a decent result by hanging a big panel of rigid fiberglass on the wall directly across from the window, or is that just going to exacerbate the asymmetry of the room? I doubt, for instance, that the drape on the window is really absorbing much sound. More likely, the waves are going through the drapes and reflecting off the window back into the room. Perhaps I should set a piece of rigid fiberglass on the window sill behind the drape? Whadayathink?
