How to make my recording room more live?

Hi, After a few years recording (3 years) in my studio, I thinking of it needs more live sound, bright sounds are dead in my recording room.

As you can see in the pic, all corners are filled by rockwool (8 cm - 3,2 inches) panels covered by fabric. Ceiling are fiberglass 1' - 2,5 cm thick tiles. (Soon I'll try to post new and real pics.) The other walls are plaster panels and the glass of studio window. I'm thinking of covering corners with wood panel stripes like John Sayer wall units. Can I reach a more live sound without any excess of hi frecuencies?? What can U advice me? Thanks!

hugo_inside wrote:

'm thinking of covering corners with wood panel stripes like John Sayer wall units.

An excellent idea. What is the height of your studio? You might want to consider some diffusion on the ceilings also. Andre

Ceiling are 3 meters - 118 inches hight.

AVare wrote:

You might want to consider some diffusion on the ceilings also. Andre

[quote="AVare"] I'm conseidering to put some ceiling diffusors too, but what kind of them are adviceable? Policylindrical, unidimensional QRD, bidimensional QRD, ...? And where I must fix it? Over the drums? So I have another question of wood stripes, Should I must cover all the corners?, or I shoul try it only in two corners? regards

I would go with skylines on the ceiling. For the side walls skylines of QRDs would work well. Glenn

I don't see any bass trapping in your corners. Maybe you should consider moving those doors a bit, so you can have decent bass trapping?

I would go with skylines on the ceiling. For the side walls skylines of QRDs would work well.

I keep on reading comments from the acoustic experts here saying that diffusion on the walls isn't a good idea in small rooms like this. Why do you think this room need diffusion? And why do you think diffusers are needed on the side walls but not the back wall?

Soundman2020 wrote:

I don't see any bass trapping in your corners. Maybe you should consider moving those doors a bit, so you can have decent bass trapping? I keep on reading comments from the acoustic experts here saying that diffusion on the walls isn't a good idea in small rooms like this. Why do you think this room need diffusion? And why do you think diffusers are needed on the side walls but not the back wall?

Corner lines are 8 cm rockwool covered by cloth. Is that not consideer like a basstrap? Moving doors? If I want to move the doors I should lay down the 2 walls (recording -control) and the build it again, with the window and the doors. Here, some pics of the corners:

Soundman2020 wrote:

I don't see any bass trapping in your corners. Maybe you should consider moving those doors a bit, so you can have decent bass trapping?

I would go with skylines on the ceiling. For the side walls skylines of QRDs would work well.

I keep on reading comments from the acoustic experts here saying that diffusion on the walls isn't a good idea in small rooms like this. Why do you think this room need diffusion? And why do you think diffusers are needed on the side walls but not the back wall?

It is not that it is a "bad idea" but a matter of how much of the effect you will get in a smaller room. In a room like that you won't get the some effect as you would in a larger room, but it is better then flat walls. Glenn

So, how can I do measurements with my studio gear? I'd buy a behringuer ECM8000 mic a few month ago but I have no software and good speakers for this testing. Are my ADAMS p22 speakers good for this? What preamp I use for this measurements?

http://www.hometheatershack.com/roomeq/ :D

myfipie wrote:

It is not that it is a "bad idea" but a matter of how much of the effect you will get in a smaller room

Adding to what you wrote Glenn, the recommendation for not using it in small rooms is based on control room acoustics where colorization is not wanted. In performance rooms it becomes a question of taste. Andre