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 r...
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 since I don’t have ...
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, along side su
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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 tweaks and boom, there it is.
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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 I decided to finally, once and...
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 ar...
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 happ...
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 sou...
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