Did I treat the Acoustics out of my room?

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Wow! There IS more to tuning a room than you think.

I completed my corner traps and several wall traps and let me say I can hear every detail in the music with no noticeable standing waves.

I tried my first mix and had a few hours invested in the first run with everything where I wanted them. I made great efforts to separate frequencies and instruments and get the sound stage good with a broad spectrum of highs and lows.

I burned the recording to a RW CD and cranked it up on my home stereo and much to my surprise the recording was VERY flat. I was stunned even when I tried it in my car Bose system. FLAT.

I totally exaggerated the mids and highs on the mix in my studio to see if this would help and it did. So I drug out my laptop and routed it into the home stereo and corrected the mix as heard through a commercial system.

What have I done to my studio? I studied this site and most advice with a small room “almost square” is a totally dead room. Do I now mix with overly exaggerated mix?
 
The best treatment in the world doesn't make up for not having good ears...

I'm not saying.....I'm just saying......
 
RAMI said:
The best treatment in the world doesn't make up for not having good ears...

I'm not saying.....I'm just saying......
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I understand your comment but have been mixing in this room for several years with fairly good results.
 
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I understand your comment but have been mixing in this room for several years with fairly good results.
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Cool, then it might just be a matter of getting used to the room now that it's properly treated. You might have gotten used to mixing in a room with bass flying all over the place, and now, without those problems, it might just SEEM "flat". I'm just guessing here.

What materials did you use to make your traps?
 
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I understand your comment but have been mixing in this room for several years with fairly good results.
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Give it time. You spent the last several years getting used to the sound of a room (for better or worse). Treating the room will make it sound different. Its gonna take you some back and forth and some time to get used to the new environment. Have faith.
 
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Get a copy of REW and do an impulse test and look at the waterfall plot. Your sound decay in the room should be around 0.3 - 0.4 RT-60. Look for obvious peaks and/or nulls. You may have some early reflection issues that are not being masked any more. Desk reflections are a possible culprit. - If your speakers have a bump in the mid, you will mix those frequencies lower...

Pull up a reference list of CDs and play them in your 'new' control room for a couple of days and tune your head. ;)

It'll get there.
Cheers,
John
 
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Thanks...
You do have a good point about tuning my head.
I remember reading a bbs comment about the place where the most time spent in one single place on the planet was his studio and I'm sure you become very familiar with the characteristics of that room as second nature.
 
Yup...after my latest round of traps and placement, I noticed a big difference and had a tough time with my mixes.
I even shot a note out to GIK Acoustics thinkin that maybe I over-did it but was told that this is normal and to give it time.
Sure enough, takin some time with my mixes and re-learning my room along with a slight tweak in monitor placement and I'm back to my mediocre mixes.

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BTW, those treatments look really nice. I have a similar size room and it is super pingy (i.e. when I snap my fingers or yell i hear a "ping' ring out afterward). I might steal some of your ideas from your pictures. But it looks nice to me!

If you don't mind me asking, how much did that cost (you can pm me if you don't want the world to know)?
 
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to my surprise the recording was VERY flat. I was stunned even when I tried it in my car Bose system. FLAT.
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It takes a while to appreciate a neutral sounding room. Give it time, and I'm sure you'll find that in the long run your mixes come out better.

--Ethan
 
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