AN EASY GUIDE TO ACOUSTIC TREATMENT

 
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AN EASY GUIDE TO ACOUSTIC TREATMENT

      Many people new to home recording realize the importance of acoustic treatment, but don’t know where to start. This is a quick and easy explanation of what you’ll basically need and why. Keep in mind that it is generic advice, but it’s hard to go wrong with this setup. 

 The idea here is NOT to be thorough. The more you know about acoustics, the more you get confused, and the more you revert back to these rules of thumb

Ok lets get back to three basic acoustic rules 

• Control Low End Reflections

Put bass traps in any and all wall boundaries. Wall boundaries are the places two or more walls meet. Corners are the most logical place to start because in this place 3 walls all come together at the same point. Next, the corner created by the walls touching the ceiling should be treated with bass traps.

Why? Low end reflections to build up in areas where walls meet.

or 

• Control Direct Reflections

Put broadband absorption to catch direct reflections from your monitors to a wall/ceiling/etc to your head. This is where the old mirror trick comes into place. Anywhere in which you can place a mirror in the room,sit in the mix position, and see the front of a monitor is a place that should be absorbed.

• Control General Ambiance

Most rooms are going to tighten up significantly after applying broadband absorption. If the room still has an obvious reverb-like quality to it, add a SLIGHT amount of broadband absorption to each wall. Do NOT overdo this, particularly if you mix and track in the same room. 

• Misc Things To Know

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• Studio foam is worthless for anything but the absorption of the upper mid range and top end.

• Couches ARE NOT bass traps

• Bookshelves ARE NOT diffusers   

• Bass traps don’t suck the bass out of the room. They suck the REFLECTIONS out of the room,

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Hello, if you are reading this, it gives me an idea that you are interested in creating your own music and sounds in your home studio. Toofer`Studio Blog is a place where we going to look in to every single production and post production aspect to help your music sound as professional as possible.                             

  We will try to guide you from basic idea to a final product that can be delivered to your fans. You will find here loads of useful information, tips and hints, detailed articles, movies  that will help you out to create good sounding peace of your own art. 

 

What we can consider as Home Recording Studio

 

The answer is quite simple, every space that contains your workstation with monitors and a mic can be considered as your recording studio, however definitions can be way different from one another, let me try to illustrate it for you ........

 

 

FROM THIS  

(it looks like 21th century Beethoven workplace)

 

THROE THIS

(with is most common overview of typical H.R.S,picture includes many typical set up faults) 

   

TO THIS

(If you have enough money to afford all this )

AND I`M NOT SURE ABOUT THIS ONE

 

(I have found this picture in one of many music production forums under ``SHOW ME YOUR STUDIO`` topic)

So if you can see, HOME RECORDING STUDIO can have many faces:), after quick picture compare we can easily spot some big differences between those four studio images. and i am not talking about equipment differences, i am more about acoustic room treatment with i will have to talk you throe in next chapter.