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You wanna treat the room for mixing or recording?
Here's how I would go about it. First you need to figure out if you have significant problems with the room. Just listen to as much familiar music as you can in it and you'll figure out if it sounds funny. If it's mixing that you wanna do, then I wouldn't worry too much about reflections, try to make it cosy and put stuff on walls, like pictures, books, golden records. The catch is to make it look like a living room. You'll feel better in it and it will fix most of the reflection problems. I was surprised to see how untreated the rooms of some mastering engineers seem.
Make sure you give some distance between your nearfields and wall behind them if you can, otherwise you'll be hyping the bass.
For recording I wouldn't be afraid of some early reflections, infact they will help your sound, especially drums or anything percussive. I'd hate to track anything in a dead room, besides vocals and even that is debatable.
But ofcourse, your room is unique so you'll have to figure out if it has significant reflection anomalies or frequency buildups. You might wanna get the room measured professionally, if you plan to do serious recording/mixing in it.
Good luck!
Matej
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