optimizing a small room for audio

[Danta]

just moved into my new home where i finally have a separate room for making music.Only problem is....its so f#cking small. The audio now sounds like its being pulled through a delay fx with a lot of feedback in a few ml sec and i miss the lows

Are there any tips to solve this?Sure , i found a lot of internetpublications about this but the main solutions like moving in a couch and stuff wont do, simply because it doesnt fit.

any other people with simular problems at home?

[532nm]

put your desk and monitors in the middle of the room offset slightly from front to back and right to left.
hang fabric on the walls or use foam and/or bass traps in the corners
use a big rug if the room has hard floors.
keep your ears close to you monitors, 1 meter will work.

[skept]

i have heard of cheap sound proofing methods using packing blankets available at ups. i cannot verify that this is effective though.

i am also working in a very small room.

[Torque]

The most importanty thing is a carpet.
I disagree with moving your rig to the center of the room.

Try the ghetto method before you go and waste money:

Move your desk up against one wall in the center of the wall.
Get either sound deadening material or if you're broke you can use either empty egg cartens or empty pizza boxeswith one inch holes cut randomly all over the tops of them (I swear this works).
walk back against the opposite wall and face your desk in exactly the center position behind where you would sit and kneel down to around what ear level would beand mark the spot on the wall behind your head.
now have a freind turn both the speakers until they face directly at you.
Fashion your sound deadening material (Boxes....whatever) into a 3 ft by 3 ft square and place it directly where you marked the wall.

now grab and omni-directional mic and find a way to se it directly where your head would be if you were sitting in you chair and plug it into your computer. Find a program of some sort that gives you a real time spectral readout of the sound and run the mic into that program. run some test tones out your monitor and adjust your speakers eq until it reads flat on the spectral readout.

Now your room is tuned and ready for battle.

You can buy all the fancy expensive monitors and stuff or whatever you want, but unless your room is eq'd right you're fuckin' up.

[northernlight]

two usefull DIY articles:

http://www.ethanwiner.com/acoustics.html

http://www.ethanwiner.com/basstrap.html

[Robot Criminal]

two usefull DIY articles:

http://www.ethanwiner.com/acoustics.html

http://www.ethanwiner.com/basstrap.html

thanks!

[northernlight]

two usefull DIY articles:

http://www.ethanwiner.com/acoustics.html

http://www.ethanwiner.com/basstrap.html

thanks!

i'm in the process of building a studio room using some of the advice from these articles.

will give you guys some feedback on how it works out.

[Danta]

two usefull DIY articles:

http://www.ethanwiner.com/acoustics.html

http://www.ethanwiner.com/basstrap.html

thanks!

i'm in the process of building a studio room using some of the advice from these articles.

will give you guys some feedback on how it works out.

thanks guys....... let me know how it worked out