a newbie that needs help! thank

hi i saw this great forum, and i think someone can help me, i'm in big trouble to do my mixes because the sound of my homestudio is horrible: -i have a lot of difficulties to mix bass sounds (i don't hear them) -i have echo when i clap my hand in the room so i need to treat my room BUT i know nothing to acoustic treatment, so i'm a bit lost AND i don't have a lot of cash now (very tight budget) I show you my studio in the plan i attached. tha ground is made of wood (it's a old building) I use it only for mixing, i don't record voice or instrument in this room. the roof is at 2,5m meters and as i'm just under the roof of my building the right wall is inclined (i have marked with a green line the position where the roof end so THE RIGHT WALL IS INCLINED ON THE PLAN) my speakers are: - 2 krk krok - 2 ns10 If someone can give me some advices how i can treat my room (and with what), and keep in mind that i have a very limited budget. thanks in advance, and sorry for my bad english! :wink:

BUT i know nothing to acoustic treatment

Mate go to this site and read up :) http://www.saecollege.de/reference_material/index.html cheers John

hi yes i've read it, and on others sites too, but what i wanted to mean is that i don't have the skills to tell what types of acoustics i should use because i'm new to this, all i know is what i've read on internet. i know what is a difusor, absorber and i know that i have to keep the reverberation low but it's a very complicated science and i don't want to make stupid things (because i can make my room sounding worse!) What i thought for my room, was to put low absorbers on the wall in front of my desk (using fiberglass), crate egg on every walls and also fiberglass on the rear wall, for the ceiling i don't know.

i was thinking of this configuration, but i don't know if it's be sufficient for the bass absortion for the diffusors, it would be wood pieces placed at 1meter of the ceiling to the top on the side walls

hi i just made the test "You could try this test. Sit in front of your speaker system and cup your hand behind your ears to block the sound coming from behind you. If you notice the sound tighten significantly you have a rear wall problem." on your guide and i can say that i have a BIG problem with my rear wall, the sound tighten a lot when i block the sound coming from behind me!!

Yes - you need to have heavy absorption on the rear wall - your room is far too small for diffusors. cheers JOhn

and on the front wall should i put also heavy absortion? because i suspect that low frequencies are cancelled because of the front wall. what do you this of this design? thank

Mate - you've got to get some low-mid bsorption into the rom - so I'd look at having angled slots across the front of your room. Also what are you doing about your ceiling? maybe a couple of clouds would help. cheers john