Little help with my environment!

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So, I would like to make my "studio" (hahahahaha) sound a bit better in order to reduce the hassle when trying to mix my tunes.

Here it goes a picture of my desk:

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And here it goes a picture of what I have behind me:

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You may notice that my small monitors are trapped next to the wall what will give some bass enhancement (the big ones aren't plugged). And yes, the small monitors has a port behind it.

I would like to get some suggestions that cost something near to nothing that I can do to make this environment more audio friendly.

Thanks!

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Yes, pull the desk away from the wall. Try to place your listening position about 1/3 of the length of the room. If the room isn't big enough to put you at 1/3, try 2/3 the length of the room.
 
Cool, not bad! Simple solution just to pull it away from wall whenever I am going to mix. Thank you VERY much fellows!

:)

Farview, the 1/3 and 2/3 view is a way to avoid the natural room reverb coming from back side?
 
Hang a comforter or heavy blanket over the window behind you.

Put your working monitors on top of your large ones and point them at you. This will get them closer to ear level and get a little more separation.

Put the CPU on the ground under the table.
 
What speakers do you primarily mix out of? Or do you use the headphones? If those side speakers are pretty bass heavy (especially being down that low) your mixes may resemble that and be pretty bass heavy. As mdainsd said, I would put the CPU under the desk, otherwise you are going to get fan noise competing more heavily than it should. Also, especially recording, free standing guitars (or hanging ones) can have their strings vibrate adding extra noise to the room. I would muffle the strings somehow (if it isn't done already, can't see them entirely).
 
Thank you very much for more these inputs. Nope, I don't use the big speakers. They are just there but they are not even plugged. My idea is to mix using the small ones.

:)
 
Read the sticky thread about small room acoustics in the Studio Building section of these forums.
You really don't want to put a (working) monitor in the corner to the right side of the desk, the bass from the rear port is going to make it a mess in the lower frequencies (guessing those speakers only go down to about 90Hz anyway).
What are the room's overall dimensions? You might be better putting the desk on the wall to the right (that has the bottom projection) or against the wall with the window.
 
YanKleber said:
Farview, the 1/3 and 2/3 view is a way to avoid the natural room reverb coming from back side?
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There are a couple points in the room that naturally have less cancellation, those are two of them that are easy to find and happen in most instances. The center of the room is generally the worst. It's just one of those rule of thumb things that can help make the best of a not-so-perfect situation.
 
mjbphotos said:
Read the sticky thread about small room acoustics in the Studio Building section of these forums.
You really don't want to put a (working) monitor in the corner to the right side of the desk, the bass from the rear port is going to make it a mess in the lower frequencies (guessing those speakers only go down to about 90Hz anyway).
What are the room's overall dimensions? You might be better putting the desk on the wall to the right (that has the bottom projection) or against the wall with the window.
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To mess with the room layout is something that I really don't want to deal with. I can surely pull the table from the wall, hang a comfort behind me, etc, anyway, do things that I can undo after a mixing session... but move furniture around definitively is not that I can do at this time. First because this room is used primarily for my job (not music production) and other activities for 90% of time and second because mostly of furniture is attached to the walls. That's why I would like to find solutions not as drastic as to change the layout. I will read the referred stick though.

Thanks!

:)
 
Possibly pulling the big speakers (not working, got that) 6" from the wall and place the small speakers on top in the front. Formulate a triangle from those two speakers to point jut behind the 1/3 point (where your head will be when you sit to mix.) This will pull the ports away from the wall a bit and possibly give you a better representation.
A little acoustic treatment wouldn't hurt. At least a cloud centered directly over the head at 1/3 (even a 2'x2'x2" piece of 703). ANY bass trapping in the front left corner would probably help.
 
Thank you very much, these are very useful and straight forward instructions!

:)

PS: Would you think that it could be a good idea to close the air port holes in the back of the small monitors?
 
YanKleber said:
PS: Would you think that it could be a good idea to close the air port holes in the back of the small monitors?
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No, they are there for a reason. That is how the designers tuned the low end response. If you plug them, the monitors will sound strange.
 
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