im sorry, i forgot to include that im using the JBL LSR series monitors, and with those, they come with a little mic used to calibrate the monitors and to "listen" to the room and make EQ adjustments to compensate ( and ive done that already and i can see it cut out alot of bass ) could i install bass traps in my corners and then re-calibrate the JBL's? would that solve the bass problem?
No. You seem to be confusing the issues here. All that your speaker EQ gimmick would do is fool you into thinking your speakers and your room are performing far better than they really are!
What Glenn is talking about is how the room itself responds to sound, not about how well your speakers reproduce sound. Whenever you make any sound in that room (singing, playing an instrument, playing back a recording, whatever) the sounds waves bounce around inside the room, and interact with it. Different parts of the room affect different frequencies of sound. What you have accomplished with those blankets is to deaden all of the high frequencies completely, killing off all of the reflections, but those blankets are way too thin to be affecting mid and low frequency sounds, which will keep on bouncing around in there, just as they always did. So you now have a "muddy" or "dull" room. Highs are in the morgue, mids are on life support, but lows are alive and kicking. Not a happy scenario.
Anytime you record anything in there, your mic will still pick up those lows bouncing around. If you mix together a couple of different tracks recorded in that room (say a couple of acoustic guitar tracks plus a couple of vocals), those "bouncing lows" will add up, leaving you with a very dull and lifeless sounding recording that is also "boomy" at the same time. Yuk.
If you put bass traps in your room, that would help, but they will remove even MORE of the highs! The little bit of high that is still in there will now not only be dead, but will be thoroughly massacred, slaughtered and shredded.
It will go from merely sounding "bad" to sounding "disgusting". Dead rooms are not nice. Our brains don't like 'em, because they sound very unnatural.
So bass traps are definitely needed (BIG ones!), but you also need to get some of the highs back into your room, so that it sounds a bit more natural, and less dead. There are several ways of doing that, and this is one reason for all of the stuff that yo ignored from the "don't post before reading this" message: We can't help you solve your problem unless you tell us all of that stuff, since it is all important! There are MANY ways of fixing your situation, but we can't tell you which one fits your case, since you didn't tells a single thing about it! (other than that you sing, it sounds awful, and there are blankets on the walls). Tell us about the
rest of the stuff that we ask for, and we can probably help you.
There's a reason for all those comments on the first page....
( And all of this has nothing to do with your speakers, by the way: That's an entirely different aspect that we can get to later, after helping you fix your dead room. )
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