Making the best out of a terrible room

[Live42]

I live in a small apartment, and thus I record in my bedroom, as it is the only room I have. I have no aspirations that I will ever produce top notch recordings in this space as I have a noisy road 7 floors below. I do however want to make the space better for listening/ mixing.

I have attached a rough, kinda sorta to scale drawing of the space Im working with. Im basically trying to figure out the best place to put treatment. Im planning on building 6 or so 703 panels to hang up. I can't really put them in the traditional 4 corners though. The top corners (on the drawing) are out of the question because of opening the closet/ room doors. The bottom corners have these weird column kinda things in them that I tried to show in the drawing. The window is the entire wall between them.

Right now Im planning to put a cloud in the middle of the room, as well as some panels on the right wall, as well as in the wall/ ceiling corners on the right and left walls. I would love to be able to pull the desk and monitors out from the wall a little, but there really isn't space.

I realize there may be no good solution here, but Im working with what I have. I just want to improve on the current situation as a sine wave sweep on my monitors currently makes my head spin.

Comments, concerns, better ideas?

 

[jhbrandt]

Live,

"A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do... "
Trap the wall/ceiling corners. Large trap on the wall behind the mix position next to the bed. Hang a cloud trap over you, between you and the speakers. - Side wall reflections should be blocked with absorption panels however you can do it. Get my First Reflection Calculator here to help with placement. Good luck!

Cheers,
John

 

[Weasel9992]

Bass builds most in corners, so get all the corners you can, but you can make a dent in the low frequency stuff just about anywhere in the room. Make sure you're using panels at least 4" thick.

 

[Ethan Winer]

I have attached a rough, kinda sorta to scale drawing of the space Im working with. Im basically trying to figure out the best place to put treatment.

You already got good advice on that, and this short primer will help further:

Acoustic Basics

I also suggest you change around your setup if possible, so you face the window at the bottom of the drawing while listening. That lets you put absorbers at the side-wall reflection points without covering a window, and the door and closet in the now-rear will help the bass response. Of course you still need bass traps.

--Ethan