How to best cover a window between studio monitors???

[89gtsleeper]

Hi. I'm beginning to put together my first home studio in the spare bedroom of my house. Due to very limited work space, the best place for me to setup my recording console and monitors is against a wall that has a window right in the center of it. My monitors will be just to the sides of the window, that way the window is not directly behind the monitors (which if I've read correctly will likely produce a great deal of unwanted reflections), and the monitors will not be completely in the corners of the room (which again if I've read correctly will add extra unwanted bottom end to the overall acoustics of the room. The wall that I am referring to is 10 feet across. I have two overall questions about this...

1) What is the best thing I can do as far as covering the window and trying to prevent reflections????

2) For some type of bass traps in the two corners near the monitors, (which will be at ear hieght when sitting), how high up or down on the wall should the traps be and what is the best fairly inexpensive way to do that?

 

[fishkarma]

you may not wanna hear this but the best thing to cover the window is wall but what you could do is put your monitors the other side of the room and treat the area around the window ideally with diffusers if you have the money (ie block it over) as for bass traps a quick google will show you how to build them and give you plenty of instructions where to put them too (make sure you need them first)

 

[FALKEN]

I am not sure you have to cover the window because the speakers are projecting outwards, not backwards. I have a window directly to my left which is a bit worse and the only thing I could come up with was to double up some thick velvet type sheets over it. the vertical positioning of the bass traps shouldn't make that much of a difference afaik. though I try to get mine closer to the ceilling. I used 4 sets of L brackets...was pretty cheap. One set on the wall, one set on the trap and lay them on top of each other and put a bolt through.

 

[rayc]

I have a window that goes the length of one wall BUT I use 2 sets of quite heavy drapes to deal with it. Then again I've used the window for some live room effect too.