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An Inconvenient Truth About Room Acoustics (The Myth Of The Flat Frequency Response) measurements

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...

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Is The Window Behind My Speakers Causing Problems? setting up a new studio

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...

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Acoustics Insider Feature On SonicScoop speakers

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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Why Mixing At Low Volume Does NOT Remove Your Room (But You Still Should) mix translation & psychoacoustics

A common trick to getting more out of your speakers and hearing better is to simply turn down the volume and mix at a low level.

It's certainly true that this will help you make better balancing decisions, hear punch, compression and dynamics better all around.

But the reason is not that you are...

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How To Find The Right Studio Desk For Your Room setting up a new studio

The other day, I came across this picture on Facebook:

A speaker manufacturer is claiming how well a particular brand of studio desk works together with their speaker.

I gasped in disbelief. This is a good combination? Thankfully the comments jumped right on it.

I just wonder what would happen...

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Should You Shut Your Studio Door? mix translation & psychoacoustics

Have you ever wondered what impact it has on your studio sound if you open or close the door?

Today I'll show you why it's probably best to just keep your studio door closed, and why it has nothing to do with improving acoustics.

In fact it's all about reducing the variables that change the...

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Smart Acoustic Treatment: How To Get The Most Out Of Your New Room And Speakers setting up a new studio

I get some version of this email every day:

“I’m about to move to a new room and I want to make sure I get the most out of it. I’ve been researching acoustic treatment, but I’m confused. The room’s got some weird angles and I just don’t know where to start....

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"Can I Have Too Much Absorption?" setting up a new studio

If I asked you the question in the title, how would you reply?

Would you say..:

"Yes, of course! You don’t want to end up with a "dead“ sounding room, after all."

"You're gonna be spending hours, days, weeks in that room! You really don’t want to end up with a room that gives...

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How To Find The Ideal Room Dimensions Using An Online Calculator setting up a new studio

Are you building a new studio and wondering how to figure out the ideal room dimensions and ratios for it?

Maybe you've stumbled across advice that you need to optimize the shape of your room because the ratios of the width, height and length will affect how good the sound and the acoustics will...

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The Real Reason You Place Bass Traps In Corners (It’s Not Why You Think) bass traps and low frequency control

I’m sure you’ve read or heard this somewhere before:

“You need to put your bass traps in the corners because that’s where the bass energy builds up. You can hear it when you play some bass heavy music and stick your head in the corner. That’s where your bass traps...

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Parallel Walls vs Angled Walls - How To Treat Room Modes And Flutter Echo setting up a new studio

Are you building a new control room and wondering if you should build it with parallel walls or angled walls?

You'll often read after all that angled walls will remove room modes and avoid flutter echo.

Why? Because room modes only build up between parallel walls, and angled walls will direct...

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My Room’s Frequency Response Seems Very Uneven measurements

The first few times I looked at a frequency response of a room measurement I thought something must be broken.

That can’t possibly be real. It literally looks like a mess!! It looks like the aftermath of war!

That’s what I’m hearing??

I’m in serious trouble…

How...

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