Monitor/sound treatment question...

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Diffusion

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when i asked what equipment i should buy first in another post, someone told me this:
The next thing would be a little acoustical treatment for your room. Even if it's just a 4' high by 6' wide strip of Auralex or some type of foam on the wall behind your monitors. From there - with good monitors - you should at least have a half-decent listening environment.
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I was wondering how this works.. I have heard a bit about needing to treat your room when getting monitors and i was wondering why he recommended putting foam BEHIND the monitors... i would have thought i should put them on the wall IN FRONT of them... im confused... how will one strip of foam help?
 
I don't really think it will help anything. The foam is to kill high and mid reflections. The sound is gonna leave your speakers and hit the back and side walls first. It seems to me that if you want to kill the high and mid reflections, you should do it at the side and back walls.
 
thats what i thought... the wall that the sound hits first, not the wall behind the monitors...
 
Diffusion said:
when i asked what equipment i should buy first in another post, someone told me this:


I was wondering how this works.. I have heard a bit about needing to treat your room when getting monitors and i was wondering why he recommended putting foam BEHIND the monitors... i would have thought i should put them on the wall IN FRONT of them... im confused... how will one strip of foam help?
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Get thee to the Studio Building forum. This is discussed at length in there.

BTW, I think you are both talking about the same location, just wording it differently.
 
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