Subwoofer Placement and Acoustic Treatment in Odd Room

[loosenup]

Hi All,

I've got a challenging area to work with in my house. Prior to this becoming "my" room, the wife put a bunch of expensive Pottery Barn office furniture in here. I've convinced her to move some of it out - but I'm stuck with a couple large desks.

the desks, coupled with an odd shaped room are making me scratch my head a bit when it comes to bass traps, sound absorbers and speaker placement.

Here's a rough floor plan that is very close to scale.



The red boxes indicate areas that I know I'm going to treat. I think the rest is pretty self explanitory.

My three questions are:
Where would you place the Genelec 1091 sub?
Where would you place additional sound absorbers / bass traps
Do you see the glass in front of the small desk being a major issue?

I'm think about putting a couple bass traps on stands so I can slide them
behind the mix position.

Thanks!

[craven]

build traps with stands and wheels to slide over the closet and that odd opening in the room....

it will help tons!

[Glenn Kuras]

Hey thanks for the pm.

Where would you place the Genelec 1091 sub?

I am not real crazy about using a sub when mixing, but you are going to need to move it around to find the best response. I will say that if the room is treated properly you really don't need a sub.

Where would you place additional sound absorbers / bass traps
Do you see the glass in front of the small desk being a major issue?

Don't worry about the glass.
I would put some on some stands behind you and also you can straddle ceiling to wall corners and or floor to wall corners around the room. All corners pick up bass.

Glenn

[Weasel9992]

Originally Posted by loosenup

My three questions are:
Where would you place the Genelec 1091 sub?

A sub is going to cause problems in a room that size. What are you using form mains? Genelec 10 series? In that case, you don't need the sub...the Gennies will faithfully reproduce frequencies all the way down to 40Hz very reliably

Frank

[loosenup]

Originally Posted by Weasel9992

A sub is going to cause problems in a room that size. What are you using form mains? Genelec 10 series? In that case, you don't need the sub...the Gennies will faithfully reproduce frequencies all the way down to 40Hz very reliably

Frank

Thanks for the helpful tips all.

Hmm. Never thought about that. I've grown accustom to them do to the untreated room. I'm using the little Gennie 1029's. So assuming all goes well, anyone want a 1091?

Maybe I'll just throw it in the home theatre...who knows.

I know I've got some work to do. I think I'll build some corner traps for were the ceiling / wall intersect. Would you recommend that as well?

[Glenn Kuras]

I know I've got some work to do. I think I'll build some corner traps for were the ceiling / wall intersect. Would you recommend that as well?

Heck yes the more corner area you cover the better the bass response.

Glenn