I live in an apartment with a small bedroom. I have mixed all my life with headphones in this room because it lacks treatment. However, this situation will soon be past. I've bought HS50m monitors since I've mixed in downtown studio with NS10s and I'm used to them.
I mainly track vocals and synths (analog and digital) and mix.
For acoustic recordings or electric guitars I usually send the DI to a producer in the states and get the reamped-retracked wavs.
I've attached the pdf I sent recently to Auralex for a room analisis, but would like to have your opinion on what can be done to improve it.
What and where should I put wedges/pyramids/eggcrate, should I put them in an specific direction/alternate them?. I suppose I'll need higher inches wedges since it's a small space and absorbing it's the priority.
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Small Apartment Studio in Santiago
Originally posted at johnlsayers.com, topic 15853.
presumably you don't need a high degree of isolation so from a treatments perspective it should be a fairly straight forward exercise - one - use rigid insulation based absorbers - most times it more effective in lower frequencies and if you build them, a lot less money. two - 4" (100mm) thick rigid insulation absorbers on your first reflection points - side walls, ceiling cloud, between the speakers (mounted on stands behind your desk close to the front wall), and rear wall. on the corners stand up rigid insulation vertically with pink (lightweight) insulation and cover it with plastic and cloth. acoustically measure the room to identify any additional problem frequencies - floor-ceiling modes likely to be a problem, leverage the closet to be a bass trap if possible.
Thanks gullfo for the reply. Should I go for fiberglass bass traps at the side walls instead of covering with 4" wedged foam? Or should I build bass traps and put them above the covered wall of foam? (Would this seem like an overkill?)
Also the fact that I am doing this with foam and lernd bass traps is the fact that they won't allow me to construct anything, so it's the best solution for me.
@gullfo When you're talking about covering it with cloth and plastic you mean the corners? There are some really cool absorbers for non-existing corners places here (look at the Male/Female Broadband Absorbers) http://www.foambymail.com/CornerSolutions.html , should I put 2 pairs in the side walls to address that problem?
I was thinking on diffusers on the ceiling to de-group the waves.
do yourself a favor - do not buy anything from foam by mail. just because the absorbers are based on rigid insulation does not make them permanent. while Auralex makes many fine products, its usually less expensive and just as effective to make it yourself.
Thanks man, just reading the gearslutz reviews showed me they were absolutely bad!
I am going for rigid fiberglass, I'll be listening in about 38% from the window. Will up the skp soon for more details.
Thanks