Live room mesurements

[Mixbuster]

Hey peeps.
I guess it's just as the control room needed to treat the live room. My liveroom is quite small, 4,3m long, 2,6meter wide and a ceiling of 2m.

Does it work the same way?
And how do I mesure the live room?
(Put some speakers in one end, a mic and run a test?)

Thanks
Mixbuster.

Another Quiestion for Ethan Winer.
I Read your acoustic article, great!
When I saw the "deflector", what if I just close the back of it? would it still be necessary with fluffy fiberglass?
(Would my room sound better if I trapped the corner with a basstrap, two deflectors between and then a basstrap in the other corner?)

Thanks, mixbuster!

[Mixbuster]

bump??

[Ethan Winer]

For a small "live" room like that just use thick rigid fiberglass or equivalent. Small room tone is always bad room tone, so the best approach is to just kill it with absorption more or less completely. This doesn't mean you need to cover 100 percent of the surfaces! But I'd stick with absorption only.

--Ethan

[Mixbuster]

Thanks ethan. But what about the live room mesurements?

[Ethan Winer]

Not sure what you're asking. Control rooms and live rooms both need absorption. The smaller the room, the more absorption proportionally you need (percent surface coverage).

--Ethan

[DanDan]

MixBuster- Room Measuring Primer just above your post, the Sticky.
DD

[Weasel9992]

Originally Posted by Mixbuster

Thanks ethan. But what about the live room mesurements?

The goals for a live room are different than those for a control room. To be quite honest though, the live room is what it is...record some stuff in it and make a determination about what you like and don't like. You may need to lower the decay time in the high mids...in which case you'd add some absorption. You might have some comb filtering somewhere...in that case absorption or diffusion could be the answer. There are a bunch of ways to go, but you'll need to do some experimentation.

Frank

[Mixbuster]

Originally Posted by Weasel9992

The goals for a live room are different than those for a control room. To be quite honest though, the live room is what it is...record some stuff in it and make a determination about what you like and don't like. You may need to lower the decay time in the high mids...in which case you'd add some absorption. You might have some comb filtering somewhere...in that case absorption or diffusion could be the answer. There are a bunch of ways to go, but you'll need to do some experimentation.

Frank

Thanks Frank! Just the right answer!