[Ethan Winer]

Originally Posted by andrebrito

NOTHING replaces proper acoustical design.

Of course, but most people we deal with do not have the budget to build a room from scratch! So 99 percent of the time (actual statistic ) you're treating an existing space.

there's no way a small room with any amount of DYI or any acoustical product (even RPG !) will sound like a professional control room.

I beg to disagree. Strongly. First, you have to define "professional" control room. Two of my local clients are serious full-time pros who have worked with dozens of famous names each. Both started with rooms that are less than ideal, yet we have managed to make their rooms excellent. By definition these are "professional" control rooms because they are used by full time mix professionals.

Now, I imagine what you really meant is the control room in a Million Dollar studio. Okay, you're right - no amount of RealTraps or RPG or GIK or ASC or Auralex treatments will make a 10 by 12 by 8 foot bedroom sound as good as the control rooms of Studio A at Avatar or The Hit Factory. But these are million dollar rooms! Someone would have to be very unrealistic to expect any products or make-over - including a make-over by Andre Brito - to change their bedroom into a million dollar room.

People in this forum only think about frequency response and forget other factors such as time response, psychoacoustics, background noise etc.

I'm not sure which people you mean, but I certainly understand all of that!

I could even push your argument farther and say few people in this forum understand the big picture of audio, and truly understand how stuff works at lower than superficial levels. I happen to think it's important to understand all aspects of audio to be an expert acoustician.

Andre, you know I respect your opinion a lot. But I have to push just a bit here on some points in your article linked above. You wrote:

It is a bit similar to fast food but applied to the acoustical world. It has its own use and it is valid for the acoustics of your bedroom where the acoustical treatment is basically the same: first point reflections, bass trap and maybe some diffusion. But it also has severe limitations and there's no such thing as the Holy Grail of the small acoustics room treatment.

So what else do you yourself do for bedroom size spaces? Can you post some photos of your projects showing more than bass traps, reflection absorbers, and diffusors?

--Ethan