Home Studio Acoustics: “My room is asymmetrical. Should I fix it?”
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2023
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One of the odd things about home studios is..
well..
that they’re slightly odd.
Who here doesn’t have to deal with at least SOME random asymmetric feature in their room, like an inconvenient window, door or wall?
But how large is the impact of the typical asymmetric oddities in our home studios?
And is it worth the effort of fixing these before doing any acoustic treatment?
Let’s dive in in this week’s video.
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Thanks Jesco! I always appreciate getting your emails notifying me when you post a new video. As usual, very easy to understand and well thought out. All the best to you and take care!
Great information, as always, Jesco 🎉
Thanks for the video Jessco.
Hi Jesco - I'm moving my studio into a 12' x 16' detached artist's studio with a vaulted ceiling. I'm wondering how to treat the ceiling. Should I lower it, at least a bit? If so, what sort of materials should I use? Can I get away with some sort of fabric or should I suspend absorbers, or some other solution? Your input on this will be much appreciated. Thanks for listening, sethyogi
Jesco, do drum risers help the sound of drums when tracking? My drummer insists it does. But this is a cement slab floor, with a 10' ceiling; I'd think that losing ceiling height by lifting the drums would hurt the tracking sound. Is he right, or am I right?
I would prefer a drum riser made of wood, rather than tracking directly on a concrete floor. The drums will resonate better on a wooden structure.
But I wouldn't want to lose height either.
I think the answer here would be a rug. Experiment with a small piece of plywood underneath the snare to bring back some attack.
Surprised to hear Jesco say that placement should always be dictated by spot with most even bass. The best bass response is sometimes in opposing corners for example. So you get the most even bass response but you have this super wide weird soundstage…all for the benefit of say getting rid of a 100hz dip…at that point I would use headphones to check for the dipped area at 100hz.
Best bass response in a corner? I think corner are the most problematic place for bass, hence why corners are the first place people place bass traps. Why would you end up with a weird, wide soundstage? You sit in the place in the room that has the most even bass response, you then place your speakers in relation to that listening position.
@@KaneDWilliams room modes are messy so rules of thumb don’t always work. A sub handled bass below 60hz so the corners did not overload sub bass with monitors. But again this placement made monitors too wide for mids and highs so headphones were used to monitor the dipped out area. Headphones can be a great tool for monitoring bass.
Jesco, I remember you saying that a very small room will have no standing waves, but the pressure from the bass will be there. If the room is small enough not to have standing waves, then is the bass hunter technique still required, or can the listening position be anywhere? Thanks.
Could you elaborate, please? To my understanding, a small room is one big standing wave, a constant reflection, constantly mixed with a direct signal. You could measure the length of a 100 hz wave to get the idea.
Although, I'd be really glad to be proven wrong, if there's some magic (or voodoo) to avoid all these tiny room problems.
d @zerobject I wish I could elaborate, or find the video where Jesco is talking about it. He was saying that sometimes a room is so small that standing waves can't form, but rather the pressure from the low frequencies push on the room, like a balloon being inflated. I wasn't sure at the time how that would present itself sonically, or if it would just be an uncomfortable space to be in?
@@KaneDWilliamsI think it's the latter - an uncomfortable space, full of issues harder to fix. I've been to some rooms (bedrooms) like this - it's still possible for electronic music creation, but you'd need lots of time to adapt and two pairs of headphones you really trust. Sometimes these rooms aren't even worth the effort of treating, but that's subjective, of course.
Sonically it's always different, but always weird, I'd say.
Even if you manage to tune such room to some average result (and that means making this room smaller, than it already is), the problem is still there - the inability of using bigger speakers. Then again, using big speakers in a tiny room is a strange idea itself.
And then there's the Anal Retentive person, that although very much needed for their Audio, is so Anal Retentive that they "have to" address any Asymmetry within the room purely from a Visual perspective. Not that I know anyone like that mind you 😜