Monitors / Acoustics. What's in your room ?

Cheaper · Post by **Cheaper** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 1:33 am

Hey all

Could be cool if you tell what monitors you have and if your room is treated.
Tests and feedbacks on gear are welcome.

I use Fostex PM1-MkII monitors which are a bit cheesy to be honest.
OK overall response, bass is nice for the size, medium is lacking and highs are shining too much.

For acoustics i use a bit of acoustic foam here and there but apart from killing the flutter echo and some high freqs they're not very efficient.

I recommand to do a test : record a sine sweep (20Hz-20KHz) in your room and look at the wave...

here's mine

RichardLodge · Post by **RichardLodge** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 7:18 pm

.... and it's meant to look like?

jessejames · Post by **jessejames** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 7:39 pm

I have Yamaha MSP7 monitors. My room is treated with GIK Acoustics broadband bass traps. (4) tri traps in the front corners and (4) 244 traps, two at the first side reflections, one on the front window sill and one hanging above the mix position.

wanderer_ · Post by **wanderer_** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 10:18 pm

RichardLodge wrote:.... and it's meant to look like?

I would think the ideal is a "flat" response. An equal amount of amplitude at every frequency step, but that's impractical.

The best you can do is try and tame it as much as possible and just get used to how your space responds.

Cheaper · Post by **Cheaper** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 2:55 am

Yep, flat is impossible...

I plan to buy some GiK stuff also, some say they're doing pretty well

david.lake · Post by **david.lake** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 5:26 pm

I use Guru Audio Qm10 (technically, ino audio piP) and my room treatment is a helmholtzresonator I built to deal with 80 hz (which it does, 100% of it). and velvet drapes on walls.
In the livingroom i have JBL 4412's.

previously worked with monitors from genelec, m-audio, behringer, KRK, tannoy ellipse 8, alesis, NHT.... they didn't do the trick for me.

tone-def · Post by **tone-def** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 7:52 pm

what microphone did you use for the test?

skept · Post by **skept** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:49 pm

i'm using krk rokit 8s. i have some auralex pads under them. i have no acoustic treatment. i don't know if it sounds good or bad because my ears are young and untrained and i have no physically available, mature and knowledgeable resource to question and compare to. i know this: if i move my head a little things sound different. hrm...