If your speakers are up against a wall...

[Bguzaldo]

Move them! I use to have them within inches of the wall (2-3 inches) and Just this past week I moved my console out about 2 feet and I can't even begin to tell you what a difference it made. I didn't think it made that much of a difference at first, but when I listened on other systems, my mixes sounds almost exactly the same, which was an awesome surprise. I was use to getting some bad bass problems from system to system, but not anymore.

Try it, see if it works for you, if not just move em back

-Barrett

 

[Steenamaroo]

guess i shudn't have thunderbolted that table to the wall then

 

[suprstar]

Yeah, definitely! Having them against a wall is bad. Having them in a corner 1/2 way between the floor and ceiling is twice as bad. Having them in the corner at the floor or ceiling is worse yet.

Against the wall, you get strong reflections, cuz the sound doesn't have distance to spread out and scatter / disperse (strength being 1/r^2 I believe) - it hits the wall full strength so you have the strongest possible reflections to cancel and reinforce freq's. Kind of like a mirror. In the corner on the floor, you have what amounts to a coarse parabola reflecting it ALL back to you.

 

[Steenamaroo]

i'm currently set up in my parents garage so it's very much a case of take what you can get....

the mackies half the quarter or half space switch which is bound to help,,,,but there's no real substitute for just getting your acoustics right!