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Old 27th February 2009   #14
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Originally Posted by Weasel9992 View Post
Actually I think the graph looks fine. You've got some stuff happening at 1-2Khz, and I'll bet that's console bounce. The other stuff up high could be a number of things. Low end looks pretty good all things considered.

Plots are great and all, but how does it sound? That's what matters. If that 1-2Khz valley is a problem you'll definitely know it.

Frank
Frank, thanks a lot!

Well, now I've been listening for a while to a lot of different music. Regarding all the work and money I've put into this, I'm not 100% happy, at least re the bass. I'm not sure about that 1.15kHz. Don't believe I've got a problem with that.

Forgot to mention that I actually kept a -4dB treble tilt on my Genelecs when measuring... The top end doesn't seem to be a problem in my room, and I find the treble on the hard side on my Genelecs so I believe that this insures that my mixes won't get too dull.

The good side is that the sound is more controlled and tight now. In the whole room. I found a very nice spot for bass frequencies about 3 meters from the speakers. I did have this bass peak before (another meter behind) but now the bass is defined at that spot. I can separate the kick and bass when listening from that spot. It actually sounds great at that spot! (but lacking the close up detail in the top end of course) That wasn't at all the case earlier.

But after listening at that spot and moving forward to the "sweetspot" the sound still feels too thin.

After moving the console myself back and forth, testing with FuzzMeasure in between I'm quite exhausted now

However I think that I'll have to plan for the last step I was told to do if this wouldn't work all the way. That is to add 30cm of Rockwool on the front wall. This wall is already treated with up to 70cm in the corners, but only with 10cm in the middle and below 90cm height. So hopefully all the 10cm areas will be 40cm next weekend. THEN, maybe it'll be time for new speakers...

Thanks again that you care! This corner of GS is nice.
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