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it's the room. as others have said, basstrap the hell out of it, and pronto.
room acoustics are not glamorous or exciting like a shiny new preamp, so it's all too easy and common for people to gloss it over in pursuit of a solution which feeds their gearlust. don't do that; nothing is more rewarding than working in a room which sounds great, and nothing is more frustrating than working in one that doesn't.
until you do treat your room, you will find no peace. you are not hearing anything remotely resembling the truth, you are making engineering choices based on that falsehood, and you are hearing the false representation of those choices. if you're tracking in there, then your tracks are printed with those phase distortions to begin with, so every issue is automatically doubled when you hit play.
you can't 'learn the room' when it's an 8x8 concrete bunker, because half of the bass info is grossly exaggerated and the other half is completely absent. there is no compensating for things that aren't there to begin with.
realtraps, or just 4"x2'x4' rockwool slabs covered with breathable fabric, stacked in the corners and hung from the wall/ceiling joints will be nothing short of a small miracle.
gregoire
del ubik
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