
rayc
retroreprobate
Stupid Question on my part but I'll try it anyway:
My ground floor, back of the house recording space has unsealed compo board bookcases lining 1 & 1/2 walls almost to ceiling with a wide range of book heights, lengths & cover types, and book types (hard down to paperback, filling the shelves. (ie: there's no standard space or density etc along the shelf contents)
The remaining 1/2 wall has a mix of hard & semi soft irregular stuff - small bookcases, piano, etc. covering much of it.
Where these aren't, amps, speaker cabs, cables on hooks etc are set out.
A third wall is 2/3rds in height & entire length window with VERY heavy curtaining floor to almost ceiling & a "15inch space" between it & the glass. There's a 2nd, lighter, curtain set, (old band backdrop) rolled up onto the pelmet for extra coverage.
The floor is dense carpet & underlay over a concrete slab.
Outside the big window is a small walkspace then a three step retaining wall with lots of foliage.
The final wall is the one behind the tape players & DAWs broken up with 2 sets of monitor speakers as well as the hard but irregular (inrelation to one another) shapes of power amp, rack, comp monitors, lamps etc.from table height up & stored gear, books & magazines below.
The ceiling is my only really exposed bit of flat reflective surface.
After recording, monitoring & mixing in this room the responses I get from stereos, etc. in various other rooms isn't significant in terms of excesses/deficits in high, mid or low response.
Am I, as I feel, just dead lucky or, as I'm afraid, just cloth eared?
Cheers
rayC
My ground floor, back of the house recording space has unsealed compo board bookcases lining 1 & 1/2 walls almost to ceiling with a wide range of book heights, lengths & cover types, and book types (hard down to paperback, filling the shelves. (ie: there's no standard space or density etc along the shelf contents)
The remaining 1/2 wall has a mix of hard & semi soft irregular stuff - small bookcases, piano, etc. covering much of it.
Where these aren't, amps, speaker cabs, cables on hooks etc are set out.
A third wall is 2/3rds in height & entire length window with VERY heavy curtaining floor to almost ceiling & a "15inch space" between it & the glass. There's a 2nd, lighter, curtain set, (old band backdrop) rolled up onto the pelmet for extra coverage.
The floor is dense carpet & underlay over a concrete slab.
Outside the big window is a small walkspace then a three step retaining wall with lots of foliage.
The final wall is the one behind the tape players & DAWs broken up with 2 sets of monitor speakers as well as the hard but irregular (inrelation to one another) shapes of power amp, rack, comp monitors, lamps etc.from table height up & stored gear, books & magazines below.
The ceiling is my only really exposed bit of flat reflective surface.
After recording, monitoring & mixing in this room the responses I get from stereos, etc. in various other rooms isn't significant in terms of excesses/deficits in high, mid or low response.
Am I, as I feel, just dead lucky or, as I'm afraid, just cloth eared?
Cheers
rayC