I have a problem with my room (window, glasses in the door which were replaced and vibrate with low end) the studio is also my bedroom so theres no way i can position the speakers to a sweat spot. its rented so i dont want to put any treatment on the walls.
my mixes are just not as good as i want them to be (when listening in more proper studios, where other tracks do sound good there). i think my issues are mostly in the bass and low mid frequencies.
i thought of two solutions and im not sure which one would be better.
1. new headphones (looking at sennheiser hd650 atm) with a plugin like Redline Monitor
2. find a decent priced mixing engineer that will do that for me.
any thoughts?
mixing studio vs headphones
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3. adapt to your room.
4. move to a different place
5. hire a low-budget garage and fix that as a studio
4. move to a different place
5. hire a low-budget garage and fix that as a studio
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im in the same room for two years now, if it didnt happen i dont expect it to be any time soon.kdgh wrote:3. adapt to your room.
4. move to a different place
5. hire a low-budget garage and fix that as a studio
no money for both 4 and 5.
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Make some frames yourself and fill it isolation material. no need to configure them onto your wall. You can also place it where you want it to.
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Im guessing that it is a small room...
As you probably know, small rooms are a pain acoustically. The problem with treatment is that it takes up a lot of space to do properly, and in very small rooms (that have the worst problems) space is what you don't have.
You could try just chucking a duvet onto the window, and some blu-tak on the door? If its the door itself, old socks are good.
I check my mixes through my headphones. If you have access to a studio maybe tweek it there?
As you probably know, small rooms are a pain acoustically. The problem with treatment is that it takes up a lot of space to do properly, and in very small rooms (that have the worst problems) space is what you don't have.
You could try just chucking a duvet onto the window, and some blu-tak on the door? If its the door itself, old socks are good.
I check my mixes through my headphones. If you have access to a studio maybe tweek it there?
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what are the exact dimensions of your room ?
download this free mode calculator and you can work out exactly which frequencies are resonating.
http://www.microscopics.co.uk/blog/2009 ... alculator/
then if you check on a frequency / note chart you can work out which bass notes are causing the vibration, and avoid those notes in your basslines, or use a different key.
my studio is full of windows and they all rattled till i sorted them all out, just by wedging small pieces of wood into the frames where the windows opened, and attaching pieces of carpet across the really rattley windows. now i have no problems.
way better than using headphones mate.
download this free mode calculator and you can work out exactly which frequencies are resonating.
http://www.microscopics.co.uk/blog/2009 ... alculator/
then if you check on a frequency / note chart you can work out which bass notes are causing the vibration, and avoid those notes in your basslines, or use a different key.
my studio is full of windows and they all rattled till i sorted them all out, just by wedging small pieces of wood into the frames where the windows opened, and attaching pieces of carpet across the really rattley windows. now i have no problems.
way better than using headphones mate.
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about the frames, thought of that. but than i figured that wooden frame will just be noisy. or am i wrong?
like i said, when listening in other places, my main problems are the low-mid low and i dont have even a place for bass traps.
@lem, i used folded papers on the door to stop it from making noise and the window is also ok.
i also reference with my headphones (sony mdr7506) but their not good enough in the low frequencies imo.
i have a friend with proper studio, but its a 40min drive and also i use a lot of uad plugins which he doesnt own
not trying to be negative, but i thought of many solutions and the two i wrote looks like the only options that can work.
like i said, when listening in other places, my main problems are the low-mid low and i dont have even a place for bass traps.
@lem, i used folded papers on the door to stop it from making noise and the window is also ok.
i also reference with my headphones (sony mdr7506) but their not good enough in the low frequencies imo.
i have a friend with proper studio, but its a 40min drive and also i use a lot of uad plugins which he doesnt own
not trying to be negative, but i thought of many solutions and the two i wrote looks like the only options that can work.
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thanks for the advice. but i think i didnt explain my self well enough.steevio wrote:what are the exact dimensions of your room ?
download this free mode calculator and you can work out exactly which frequencies are resonating.
http://www.microscopics.co.uk/blog/2009 ... alculator/
then if you check on a frequency / note chart you can work out which bass notes are causing the vibration, and avoid those notes in your basslines, or use a different key.
my studio is full of windows and they all rattled till i sorted them all out, just by wedging small pieces of wood into the frames where the windows opened, and attaching pieces of carpet across the really rattley windows. now i have no problems.
way better than using headphones mate.
i did fixed the door and window from making noise. i know that my problems are in the low-low mid but because its also a bedroom, i have no place for bass traps and i dont want to put any treatment on the wall (wood frames will just be noisy i think).
the calculator would be good if i didnt have a bed and a closet in the room
