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Studio Layout Page I have acquired a lot of great studio set-up and acoustic related knowledge
from some extensive reading and by perusing recording forums such as "Tape-Op, "HomeRecording", "Gearslutz", and "Sound-On-Sound"
and I share some of this on this page below.
One of the most important pieces I have learned about recording and
one I continually see over and over again in most recording forums is the importance of the acoustics in your room as these
will have a major impact on what you will eventually hear in your recordings.
In that regard, one place I do recommend folks visit is http://www.ethanwiner.com/acoustics.html as Ethan Winer shares a lot of good information about room acoustics and how to work with it from different
acoustical perspectives.
From a DIY perspective, ATS Acoustics, GIK Acoustics and others do
sell "naked" Compressed Fiberglass or Rockwool Panels that you can cover yourself. Of course, Ethan, ATS and GIK sell completed
and ready to hang panels as do others.
As my room is small (11 X 11), I have taken the advice of many to make
my room as sound absorbent (dead) as possible thus I have many square feet of absorbent compressed fiberglass in my room
and have will soon add one more 2 X 4 panel of Owens-Corning 703 on the left wall above my rack (which you
can see in the photo below behind the rack waiting for installation).
The DIY panels on the front wall are actually 6 inches deep with compressed
fiberglass sandwiched between 2-panels of modified peg-board with a 2-inch air gap at the rear ending in a solid wall
of sound deadening Homosote.
As you can see in the photos above and below, I have centered my mixing
desk as best as possible between the right and left walls and from a room acoustics perspective, I have also made sure
that my left wall has a different texture than what is on my right wall so as to not set-up any type of acoustic reflective
mirroring from wall to wall. From an audio perspective, I have also made sure that the "tweeters" or
high frequency drivers of my audio monitors are about ear height which is another general "rule of thumb".
One important acoustical related item that you can see in the photo below
is the sE Electronics Reflexion Filter (http://www.seelectronics.com/rf.html ).
It is the curved black fabric lined multi-layered unit on the mic stand that was
developed to reduce room ambience primarily for vocalists and made especially for folks who may not have perfect acoustics
in their room.
I use mine always when recording vocals and it does make a big difference in reducing
room ambience. In fact, there are quite a few people who use the Reflexion Filter while recording who will also hang
a big down comforter behind vocalist to reduce even more room ambience.
As we further discuss room acoustics, you will see in the photo below that I have purposefully built shelves on the back
wall of my room in order to create a "poor mans" type of room diffusion. It gives the room a little bit of a liveliness
and helps open the room up per se making it sound a bit bigger than what it really is.
I have also placed a panel of Auralex 2" Wedgies on the door in order to reduce the amount of direct reflective surface
in the room.
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