Ethan Winer wrote on Wed, 03 January 2007 18:12 |
So I take it this is someone else's room?
> Due to practical reasons the speakers are set up to shoot across the shorter length of the room. <
How is a horrible bass response ever practical?
If this is someone you're advising, show them this pair of graphs for the same room, one with the speakers firing the longer way and the other the shorter way. Maybe then they'll reassess their idea of what's practical.
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Thanks for the graph, Ethan.
This is one of the rooms I'm currently using (the other one being great for my purposes, although half an hour away from the room in question) but unfortunately it looks like it'll become my only own mixing room for a while. No recording going on in this room, thank god. So let's call it my room, from now on.
The peculiar thing is that when aiming the speakers along the long side of the room it doesn't sound bad, except for a standing wave around low B or whatever it was, that sounded like acoustic feedback if you cranked it enough.
At the moment it's all filled with gear with the speakers facing the wrong direction due to practical reasons regarding how many people will be in there simultaneously while working on the project. During these sessions it's not about correct listening, much more about creating ideas and being able to access all the gadgets, instruments and wingdings for all the people in the room (especially the computer screen).
However, the room has got very thin walls, and three doors as well as a window (ie an opening in each wall). When I open up all the doors (not the window, it's friggin' ice ages out there up here in the cold north!) it's as if a third of this room opens up to much larger rooms and things happen with the sound big time.
Another funny thing is that I've used this room years ago for another project that worked out well. As long as I walk out into the adjacent hall to check the bass levels, that is.
So, except for turning the whole rig 90 degrees, what else is there to be done to make it less of a disaster?
Sincerely,
Tomas Danko