weird room, advice please

[jro323]

hello all,
i've done some searching and learning through
these forums - my hats off to all of you who've made my life
10,000 times easier.

i have 9 - 2'x4'x2" panels of johns manville's 703 equivalent
and about enough dough for some wood and burlap.
i'm narrowing down to 2 plans of attack on my weird little room.
i plan on doing alot more in the future but unfortunately this is what
i have to work with right now. got to make it stretch.

plan 1.
stack 2 panels together in the making of 4 - 4" basstraps
and then have a 5th 2" absorber.

straddle my corners behind the monitors with 2
traps each (floor to ceiling, the ceiling is a little more than 8ft tall)
and the wall-to-ceiling corner getting the 5th 2" absorber

eventually get some auralex or more traps for the first reflection points.

plan 2.
make
3 - 4" traps -- two directly behind monitors, one across wall-to-ceiling corner
and
3 - 2" absorbers --- first reflection points - walls and ceiling cloud -

also
(other options/considerations)

i'm not sure what needs to happen behind me as there is so much open
space - i have considered putting a bass trap on a stand and floating that
a few feet behind my mix position (not sure if i'm right headed on that one
or not.)

and also - to the left of of the chair (first reflection point on left) - there is an
open doorway into the kitchen. i have a curtain hanging there now - not sure if
i should float a trap on a stand in front of that, or what?

to the right there is a window - which i'll probably obscure by hanging a trap
in front of it. no problem.

also there is a ceiling fan above my head which is always on, but it's a little
behind the first reflection point. i think.

here is the crudest possible drawing of my little space.

any advice would be appreciated.
thank you.

[Ethan Winer]

You should move your desk to the bottom of the drawing with the speakers facing up toward the top. Then make your corner bass traps four inches thick. You'll need a few more panels for reflections. You can add those later. Of course you also need more bass traps. You can add those later too.

--Ethan

[jro323]

that is helpful. and appreciated.
thanks again.

[Glenn Kuras]

i'm not sure what needs to happen behind me as there is so much open
space - i have considered putting a bass trap on a stand and floating that
a few feet behind my mix position (not sure if i'm right headed on that one
or not.)

I think that is fine. It is pretty important in a smaller room to have thick absorption behind you. There are a lot of nulls and peaks coming from that area.