help with my room setup

Posted on Jul 27, 2010 05:12 pm
skeg0
www.dorian-music.co.uk
Member Since: Apr 04, 2008

hello,

Ive recently finished building a room in my loft to use as a studio for mixing/mastering my own compositions and want to know the best way to set it up. Before, I was stuck in a really small room with my speakers close to the wall but actually didnt get that bad a sound for such an untreated room. Now, I am in a bigger room but I am not getting the same good results from my monitors so need a bit of help preparing the room. (a lot more treble and mids for some reason)

I have some drywall/plasterboard sheets left over as well as about 5 rolls of rock wool insulation so am wondering whether to build some bass traps or not and also wondering where to put them and how to build them into the shape of the room.

Here are some pics of the room:

Basically the room is a standard triangular loft, with a room built inside it. At each gable end of the room there is about 1m space between the wall i built (on each side) and the main house brick wall - the spaces are now both cupboards as you can see with the doors in the pictures. The walls are built with drywall with rock wool insulation inside and are only about 2-3 inches thick. All the other walls around the room are built the same (minus the layer of plasterboard on the outer side of the wall and using a damp proof membrane all the way around incasing the insulation) - in the images you will see I have hung up material on every wall to prevent reverb.

My monitors are currently 1.5-2 feet from one of the walls and suspended from the ceiling - I thought I would try this to stop bass resonating in the wooden desk they were sitting on before.

So my main questions are whether I should build bass traps with the remaining materials, and where they should go, how big they should be etc taking into account the strange shape of the room as you can see in the pictures. Does it add any merit, the fact that the wall behind the speakers is only a couple of inches thick and that bass frequencies may pass through it relatively easily and therefore escape!?

Also does anyone have/use a specific reference song that they KNOW sounds perfect in order to callibrate speakers/rooms? I use 1 or 2 songs from different bands, and for some reason up in the loft, the tracks are sounding completely different from each other in terms of frequency response - one is suddenly very trebly and lacks bass.

Any help/thoughts would be greatly appreciated! thanks!

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