Please help me treat my mixing environment.

I'm tired of mixes that don't translate well & having to rely on my car stereo for what's going on in the bottom. I want to treat my mixing room (aka spare bedroom) to tame early reflections where I sit. After some reading, I'm thinking of building some 'mini-traps' type broadband absorbers. I prefer not to attach anything permanently to the walls, so I'd rather a design that is either free-standing or hangs on or in front of the wall. I have access to a wood shop & free scrap wood, so I definitely want to build them myself. I'm thinking of putting some 2x2 absorbers behind each monitor and up where the corner meets the ceiling in the two corners I can (I left these out of the diagram). Also, three 4x2 absorbers-one for the corner behind the monitors, one for the opposite wall, and a free standing one I can place wherever needed. I also have some moving blankets I could hang as a curtain behind me. I'm posting a diagram of my room layout & some pics. Any input you guys have on my design or the design of the absorbers themselves would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Chris

Hmm... looking at your room, I'm thinking you might want to try switching the positions of your mixing desk and the drums. You can use that closet in the lower left as a bass trap if you have it behind the mixing position. You'll still need to worry about the treatments behind the monitors, and put a curtain across the opening to the closet, but it'll be a reasonably quick start. Try tacking up a curtain before doing a full hanging treatment, and see if it helps at all. Also, try drawing this out on graph paper or something; your measurements don't add up.

jatougas wrote:

Also, try drawing this out on graph paper or something; your measurements don't add up.

That 82" includes the 3" trim to the right of the closet door-sorry. I can't really move the mixing desk due to cables that are already run to that corner.

Perhaps a better question to ask would be, what have you tried so far?

jatougas-I haven't tried anything yet other than moving the mixing desk from against the top wall between the door and the right wall to where it sits in the diagram. The room isn't big enough isn't enough to center it on that right wall, so I figured this was my best bet. With no treatment the sound is worse in this position than it was before, but I'm hoping, with some treatment it will be better. The only things I currently have to work with are a few moving blankets. Before I start building absorbers, I wanted to get a general idea of what I needed.