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Originally Posted by peeder  Thanks for sharing all these pix. Most of these rooms can certainly be used to make some great music. The one thing I keep seeing though in the pictures is poor monitor placement. Some of the monitors are too close to each other, some too far, the tweeters are rarely at ear level, many are on their sides when they should be upright for the sake of proper imaging.
I think this latter problem comes from seeing NS-10's in big studios, but those studios have them that way because they want to avoid cluttering sightlines into the live room and sound lines to the mains (not to mention knocking the NS10's off the meter bridge). The sound of NS10s isn't that important when you've got a great set of mains in a great room!
For a few dollars in cinderblocks, some careful placement in the room as a whole, and maybe a set of Auralex Mopads, most of these rooms would have a dramatic improvement in the results coming out of them. A few of the rooms are fine, but if I had to work in many of them I'd spend an hour fixing the ability to hear first of all. |
Monitor placement is a crucial issue. I try to keep mine at the right distance. The tweeters look about ear level (in the pic it looks like a straight line) and I'm pretty sure we're all the same distance from eachother, though I've never actually measured.
My problem is I'm not far away enough from the wall behind my monitors and I also have standing wave issues all over my room so that def. doesn't help. Guess I'll be investing in some ready traps and maybe some diffusers.
And +1 for the mopads. They're great and cheap.