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Ethan Winer · 9th April 2006

gnarls,

> I get sort of a boxy tone out of drums <

I bet you do. The main problem with a room that small is you're close to all the walls, and to the floor and ceiling. Even if you covered everything completely, thin foam and thin "sound board" affect only the highest frequencies. What you really need is thick, broadband absorption that works well to as low a frequency as possible. Small room ambience is bad ambience, so in small rooms you need to absorb the reflections as much as possible.

I'll also comment on your mixing setup. One problem is you're not centered left and right in the room. The other is the speakers are firing the short way across the room. The drawing below shows the best way to set up for listening and mixing in a small rectangular room.

--Ethan

9th April 2006	#4
Ethan Winer Gear Guru Joined: Oct 2002 Location: New Milford, CT, USA Posts: 12,333	gnarls, > I get sort of a boxy tone out of drums < I bet you do. The main problem with a room that small is you're close to all the walls, and to the floor and ceiling. Even if you covered everything completely, thin foam and thin "sound board" affect only the highest frequencies. What you really need is thick, broadband absorption that works well to as low a frequency as possible. Small room ambience is bad ambience, so in small rooms you need to absorb the reflections as much as possible. I'll also comment on your mixing setup. One problem is you're not centered left and right in the room. The other is the speakers are firing the short way across the room. The drawing below shows the best way to set up for listening and mixing in a small rectangular room. --Ethan __________________ Ethan's audio book is now available!