Help!!!! Loss of Bass.... New set up..

[VOXVENDOR]

Im going to try and explain this as easy as possible...

My studio is rectangular.... I used to have the computer and monitors (speakers) on the long wall, and the shorter distance was behind me.....

I have finally set up my studio so my computer cables are going through the wall into the next room.. (Tower and ext. HD are out of the room finally...) No more noise! Yee Haw!!!


But, in order to make that work, I had to put my set up on one of the end walls... Now I have this huge "throw" of space behind me, and all of my bass is lost when im in my "seat" at the computer.... but If I walk to the back of the room, there is mega-bass there...

Can I correct this, or am I doomed with this positioning.....? If it's an easy fix, with a few baffles or some sort of damper panels on the wall, I would be delighted...

If worst comes to worse, I can move the set up back to the longer wall and get some longer cables in order to put the computer and HD outside... But I really want to avoid that and try and make it work the way I have it now...

Any advice is appreciated..

 

[gidman]

bass

Live bass...hmmm
I usually go direct...
Try inverting the bass cabinet torwards the wall...
Just an Idea..

Leave me alone bruce : )

LOL

Gidman

 

[empire_of_one]

i have a feeling your new, bass-challenged position is also a much more accurate listening environment than your previous one. it sounds like all that extra bass in your old setup was coming from wall reflections, so take any mix you do in that position with all that 'mega-bass', and listen to it in a different environment, you'll be wondering where all that bass disappeared to. once the rear wall was taken out of the equation, so was all that bass you THOUGHT was in your mix, and all of the sudden your mixes sound thin. you don't want more bass though; you want more ACCURACY so you know just how much bass is in your actual mix, without being fooled by room acoustics.

step 1: get some bass traps to put behind your speakers and on your rear wall. this will get rid of any bass reflections from the room and also eliminate some low-freq standing waves that may be cancelling bass as well. now at least you know how much bass you really have to work with.

step 2: you don't say what kind of speakers you have, but any computer speakers or near fields will have less low-freq than you probably want, so if after you've treated you're room you still want more bass, then add a subwoofer.