Help in treating small bedroom for mixing-UPDATED

Hello all, I read the rules and hopefully remember them all! If not please lemme know what i can fix to comply. Essentialy I have an Apt. I have neighbors nextdoor to me and above. I am looking to turn this room into a *decent* (read doesnt have to be great just better than currently) room to mix in. I have a studio that I work in frequently so final call on mixes and tracking are handled there. I am just looking to have a room that I can do the bulk of the mixing and know that when I go into to finalize the mix at the studio it should be close. My budget of course is virtually non existant ( less than $100). I currently have 12 1" 703 non faced 2' X 4' panels in a cardboard box that I havent even opened yet and 6-8 1' sq 2" foam auralex like panels. I have a set of Alesis M1 Active Mk2's that I am not planning on soffit mounting. I have a fairly decent idea from reading ( been lurking for a year or so) how to build traps etc. I realize that 703 isnt preferable to 705 but its what i could afford. I plan in a couple of months to buy some 705 to replace the 703 in the corners but I want to work with what i have at the moment. I am asking for some general ideas regarding room layout and where to use the treatment I have to best effect. This is a temporary setup as I plan on moving in January 08. I plan on building the traps so that I can obviously take them with me. to recap. I have 12 2' x 4' 703 nonfaced and 6-8 1 foot sq 2" auralex foam panels and can't soffit mount the speakers. Just looking for the best I can get outta what i have. Mixing only not concerned about tracking here. If I left anything out please ask , and if I am not following the forum guidelines please let me know how I can comply. I attached a sketchup file of the room. the wall with 2 doors both of those are closets. the wall with only one door is the doorway into the room the wall adjacent to that is shared with a neighbor. I tend to mix within reasonable volume levels and only crank it for very short amounts of time ( i like my hearing) and I will be checking all mixes at a studio where I can definately crank it. I do some composition here as well, but that is a completely secondary concern. I would just like to be able to do the bulk of mixing here and know that when I get to the studio that minor tweaking will be mostly all t hat is necessary. I used to work at the studio I use, and now freelance, which of course means that most of my clientele has a rather limited budget, by doing the bulk of the mixing at my house I can of course save them some money and allow more of their budget to be put towards tracking time. I forgot to mention that there is a ceiling fan dead center of the room If anyone has any bass traps for sketchup i would love to get my hands on them. That way I can try out a couple of different layouts to get some opinions. I have uploaded a new version with a basic layout ieda I had. The thing you see on top is supposed to be a cloud at the first reflection point. The desk and speakers will be on the wall under the window firing into the long dimension of the room. I also realized i didn't post dimension. W10' X L 13' 10" x H 7' 11" Thanks, Randy

I'd add some of the absorber panels to the back of the room to cut reflections. maybe a heavy drape over the window to cut some of the high end. since you only have 1" for now, I'd say try putting a layer across the corners and see how it works. you might want to double up across the front corners, or add some of the absorbers on the wall-ceiling corners on either side of the cloud. since you have a ceiling fan right about where the cloud is, you could (make sure its not getting hit by the fan) leave it up on the ceiling, or suspend (from the sides) below the level of the ceiling fan - but still high enough over your head on the console.

Thanks for the reply. I may see if I can afford to purchase 4 pieces of 705 4" for use in the front 2 corners. that will free me up 4 pieces of the 703 to use in the rear of the room. I have been considering ( and I could use some opinions on this) removing the 2 closet doors and putting a custom sized bass trap on hinges , in their place. The closet depth is somewhere between 2 and 3 feet. My thinking on this is that I should be able to get a much lower Q on them ( and make double use of the closets) . Any pro's and con's about this idea? I would like to make a panel to sit between the closets as well. Since none of the 703 is faced I do have some concerns regarding muting the highend in the room. I will probably get faced 705 for the front corners if budget allows me to make that purchase. Thanks for you input, It has given me some ideas to work with. I am going to run some basic tests in the room this coming week. Probably using roomeq wizard . I may post some info from that if time allows. I would like very much to run some before and after tests though. Randy

the closets - even stuffed with clothes - will act somewhat as a bass trap because the bass likely goes right through the doors and walls. opening them up and building something specific would probably be more effective but if you need the storage space maybe some thing can be done like added some insulation behind shelving. on the absorbers in the room, you could used faced insulation or put in some plastic sheeting to add back some high end after covering them with cloth. but in such a short room you'll want less live in the back of the room when mixing and maybe more life when tracking (if recording something live) so maybe having the panels flip with 1 side live and the other more absorptive.