Have you noticed that in our little music studio world, it seems like 95% of the tips on acoustics and treating your room are all about optimizing mixing rooms.
But what about recording or live room acoustics?
Do the same techniques and approaches even work? What should you focus on here?...
If you have this problem you'll know exactly what I’m talking about:
You sit down to work on a mix, you press play, and for a few seconds everything seems fine.
But then the bass kicks in and just as it hits that one note, all hell breaks loose.
This super loud, super annoying...
Have you tested your room’s low end, or visited another studio, and while walking around you thought:
"Damn, this room has some serious low end issues!“
The bass is all over the place. Total suck out over here, massive resonance over there.
"We need some PROPER bass absorption...
I’m sure you’ve heard the advice before that:
"You can’t have too many bass traps!“
But you’ve probably also heard stories off people putting way too much absorption in their room and it ending up sounding over-damped, or even "dead“.
You get that...
I've already showed you a simple way to figure out if the bass trap you are thinking about getting for your room is a pressure (tuned/resonance/membrane) trap, or a velocity trap (porous, broadband), and what that means about how they work and how to use it.
But which type is actually the...
Are you having trouble finding the right bass trap for your studio?
You know you need more low end control, so you go online and you google "bass traps". But there are just so many different products and designs out there and they all sort of promise the same thing!
"Best bass trap on the...
I recently spoke to John of darko.audio, a blog and Youtube channel on all things high-fidelity speakers and improving listening room sound quality.
Now my focus here on Acoustics Insider is on audio professionals and improving the sound in home and project studios. But John's just a cool...
If you had the chance to get an inside look at a loudspeaker company like ADAM Audio, what would you want to see?
If you didn’t have to be “politically correct“ and truly got to go behind the scenes, what would you want to know?
Yesterday, I got the chance to do just that.
And...
It’s insanely fun to do them (especially if you’re the one being interviewed ?), and you get to share A TON of great information in a really short amount of time.
This time around I got to speak with Mike Indovina on his MasterYourMix.com podcast,...
I’m sure you’ve heard someone say:
“Oh, this dude’s room is perfectly flat. Like, you can hear every little detail. And the bass. The bass! Whenever I check my mixes in his room, we make like 2...
If you are working out of a home studio, you probably have a window somewhere in your room that you've been wondering about.
Is it causing a problem that you don't know about? What's the best way to treat the reflections coming off of the glass? Will curtains help?
In this video I want to show...
I’m sure you’ve heard the advice that you should always, and under all circumstances place your speakers at some apparently magic distance from the front wall.
If you’ve tried it and found that it sounds like crap, you’re not alone!
In fact it’s such bad advice, that...
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