Acoustic treatment IS NOT about getting good sound - What Sound Engineers NEED To Know

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If you've been down the rabbit hole of treating your studio, then you know:
It's suuuuuper easy to get lost in the process.
Often enough it can lead to just giving up.
Or maybe even worse: you end up obsessed about details that totally don't matter.
You endlessly turn in circles, trying everything under the sun to solve that one issue.
But you only figure out that it never mattered months later after once again: giving up..
I'd like to spare you this dilemma.
And in my opinion it has a lot to do with how you think about acoustics before you even get started.
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[@ChristopherOrth]

Your advice here is always so great, and thanks for helping make sense of things for people. I feel we all are sold the idea that there is some magical "right way" of treating a room, and that it's a one stage process. But really it's a series of moves, tries and fiddling that over a relatively short amount of time can get astonishing results.

[@ADDIKTION]

I learnt a lot thanks to this channel (thank you so much), and yes I did get obsessed about acoustics 😅, but eventually got to results that are paying off.
The knowledge and experience brought by this obsession are really valuable to me.
It did take time away from making audio things, but I feel I grew more with that journey. It’s not for everybody though.

[@niozikpro5812]

I needed to hear that 🙌

[@seanb3303]

My philosophy is use absorption with range limiter plates…if you are left with a dip centered at 100hz that really sucks…so at that point I like tuned membrane traps to aggressively go after a narrow range…such as 90-110 hz. I obviously hate mid bass dips 😀

[@leonsamsworth9957]

Title has gotten a bit mixed up Jesco.
Thanks so much for all the content

[@simonbaxtermusic]

Love this. It’s all about the music!

[@boredv3]

check on your plant yo

[@ProdbyCeeSick]

the plant caught the voodoo 😂

[@boredv3]

@@chinmeysway tf u mean questionable treatment. this man be spittin straight gold

[@feverSoundHK]

we miss you～

[@PatrickDunca]

Thank you for all your advice. I did however end up with working with commentators inside a large portacom. The reverberations made it sound terrible and hard to mix. Surprisingly though, covering the walls and ceiling with 3mm thick packing blankets cleaned it up greatly! Their mics sat in the mix properly and the reverb was more than reduced enough. But I don’t understand how. How did 3mm achieve this? My home mixing room has 300mm foam spaced off the walls by 250mm. I don’t understand.

[@obliviox]

Curved panels on your doors?
I got 13x12 ft room with x2 doors
At a 45 degree angle on rear left corner.
Rest of room fully treated first reflections front and back wall all 6” bass traps and x4 6” cloud covering listening position
Just not sure of back left corner

[@gerardoruiz72]

But regardless your goal in terms of RT60, related to the kind of work ( recording, mixing ) and kind of music you will do in your studio, it is always a goal to get a frequency response as flat as you can. I am wrong?

[@ardierr.2525]

I m in this process right now, built 10 "ikea hack gersby" with sonorock eco...amazing but i haven t make a mix , today i just found a way to hang one of roof..so i understand you , can i try to mix now? And if it s ok think again about wha t s needed...also is there to build diy diffusor?

[@Cencolor]

That plant 🪴 needs treatment for sure

[@robflores5172]

good getting sound of course

[@quixero556]

Would you recommend i build my wall panels using materials or should i just purchase the ones that are available at b&h ?

[@nevencovic2804]

Well probably is much cheaper diy than buying..but buying is more options with looks quality and design etc

[@quixero556]

@@nevencovic2804 oh okay i suppose ill go the diy route as idc about looks, and i saw some good looking diy builds and they dont seem to require that much extra effort!

[@ardierr.2525]

From my experience diy can be around 5 times cheaper than buying for the same volume (cube meter) of absortion if you already have the tool ( i spent around 100euros for the tools stapler, cutter, hammer etc) but to do it safely you need to have a good workspace especially when working with the insulation,if you don t have a good workspace and i find it unsafe. Also it depends of the number of panel you need, the more you need the more diy is interestinf

[@spencerleehorton]

Sounds like you’re talking about me!! 😅

[@mightybenaiah9076]

I think your video title should read "getting good sound", not "good getting sound". 😊

[@IcemanTheDj]

I also have a big deep @100Hz after treatment. It begins at 80-90Hz, goes down to about -30dB at 100Hz and back up at about 110Hz... It's like a notch at 100Hz. I get over it. With 1/3 smoothing on REW, room response is +/- 2dB over this notch with about 150ms rt20, and +/-5dB below this notch, from low fq room modes. Compared with the initial room response (3,3/3/2,3 m) it is a enormous progress... 😁

[@robertwagner8317]

Syntax IS NOT about perfect making sense

[@robertwagner8317]

Youh speak gd tooo