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Old 15th January 2009   #5
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I partly agree with the advice with not bothering to measure the room.

A lot of the advice given here on this site is usually for a more generic treament. Broadband absorbers. Thicker for the corners to help control the bass and some panels on the first points of reflection.

However Your room may have a particular problem modal resonance (or several) and sonic measurements will help you see if you are managing to target them effectively.

Once you have found the problem frequency you can set up a test tone at that frequency and move the mic around the room to see where the resonance is strongest and thus place your thicker traps there.

In addition a SPL meter can also be used to calibrate your monitoring system afterwards. This is more common in Audio post production, but I personally think it is a good practice for music production as well.
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