Advice on Home Studio Treatment

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GHawk01

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Hello all,
I've been reading everything I can find about conditioning my home studio acoustically and would like to pose this opportunity to you, the well experienced members, for advice on what and where to add treatment.

Room W 12’4" X D 11'6" H 10’ - 2- Masonite doors – closet and entry - 1- 34”X60” window with 3” faux louver blind.

I have a large amount of Johns Manville insulation panels ranging from 12" to 21" trimmed to, best use, 44" and many 3’X3’ and 2'X2' all 1 1/2 thick with backing, also 6- Owens-Corning 703 1"X24"X48.

I'll be using 1/2" and 1" thick trim lumber - 2", 3" and 4" width contructing framing with cloth covering the panels for decor.

I would like input from my information on where to position treatment and what type you would install.

Thank You in advance.

Large db build behind the file cabinet - 6~ - About 2-3 db along back wall - Normal elsewhere.
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Note 60db - 90db
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Hawk,

Your first priority should be bass trapping in this small room. You have 12 corners in a rectangular room. If you can not place traps in the vertical corners, use the horizontal wall/ceiling corners.

Place your mix position about 55 - 63 inches from the wall in front of you. You will need reflection point panels left and right and on the ceiling (better dropped down and hanging like a cloud). Go to my publications page and get my first reflection calculator to help with placement.

Use the thicker traps on the back wall directly behind you.
What are the speakers behind you?? (not recommended) & get rid of the filing cabinet. ;)

GHawk01 said:
Note 60db - 90db
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This is a large gap in the modes. 60 to 90Hz - typical of a small room. You must trap well to even out response, otherwise you will have boosts at modal resonances. Imagine the bars of the mode calculator graph to be equalizer bars that are boosted and in between the bars is no boost. That's kind of what your room modes will do to your sound. Trapping turns them down. ;)

Cheers,
John
 
"What are the speakers behind you?? (not recommended) "

Those are HD speakers for playback listening not for mixing. Unfortunately, the file cabinet is used for business.
 
Still not there yet. I'm trying to get 5 posts so I can link a picture.
Oh, I understand the saftey feature of minimum 5 posts before you can post links and pics but what a pain.
 
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