Rant: Why do people refuse to consider acoustic treatment?

[offkey_99]

I feel room treatment is something I want to do right and I (stupidly) do nothing instead of doing something that is a reasonable start. I'm the kind of person who wants to know everything about a topic / project before tackling it. I definitely am limited by room now that I have invested in gear / DIY for something like 25 years. If I was lazy but had $5k to tackle the problem but wanted to do it scientifically (simulations? measurements?) what would be the recommended approach? My room is terrible, basically 12ftx12ft with 9ft high walls (well, nearly).

 

[ChrisMM]

I feel room treatment is something I want to do right and I (stupidly) do nothing instead of doing something that is a reasonable start. I'm the kind of person who wants to know everything about a topic / project before tackling it. I definitely am limited by room now that I have invested in gear / DIY for something like 25 years. If I was lazy but had $5k to tackle the problem but wanted to do it scientifically (simulations? measurements?) what would be the recommended approach? My room is terrible, basically 12ftx12ft with 9ft high walls (well, nearly).

This article by Ethan Winer covers all of the basics, and these are the methods I and many others have used to treat my own room with great success.

https://ethanwiner.com/acoustics.html

For a room like yours (which is very similar to mine), you'll probably decide on bass traps in as many corners as possible, with fiberglass panels on the walls and ceiling to cover all of the points of first reflections. It depends on exactly what you are doing in the room of course; a recording room may have slightly different needs than a mixing room. Good luck!

Chris

 

[okgb]

Money & ignorance. Like many have said it's not the sexiest thing to spend money on, especially if money is tight, like you can barely afford to be recording.[ but if you told them it would guarantee a hit, boy they'd find someone to borrow the money from ] I think of the gear buying pyramid [ not the top elite ] most people in the middle know they're not going to be doing world class projects or even competing outside their city for the most part. And that's not even considering that it's gotten easier to do but there are more people trying. To me that indicates one's real level of seriousness. Some can take a guerrilla / punk just whip it out attitude and get by on energy. Also less people have dedicated listening spaces these days

 

[offkey_99]

This article by Ethan Winer covers all of the basics, and these are the methods I and many others have used to treat my own room with great success.

https://ethanwiner.com/acoustics.html

For a room like yours (which is very similar to mine), you'll probably decide on bass traps in as many corners as possible, with fiberglass panels on the walls and ceiling to cover all of the points of first reflections. It depends on exactly what you are doing in the room of course; a recording room may have slightly different needs than a mixing room. Good luck!

Chris

Thanks Chris! - this is realistically a recording/mixing room: with kids, etc. I can no longer take over more space consistently...but I heard that Sheryl Crow's control room was used to record much of Kacey Musgraves' album Golden Hour and it sounds REALLY good to me...so it can somehow be done. I'll definitely check out the info in the link.