Those of You with SMALL Control Rooms

TC5 · 26th October 2009

I would like to hear from people who work in small control rooms any comments on their experience with mixing etc. Or any advice to get the most out of less than ideal spaces. If you can state your room dimensions etc. that would be great. Thanks for any input.

Glenn Kuras · 26th October 2009

What is the size of your room? What problems are you having? Do you have a layout you can post?

Here is a Franks (he works with me at GIK) small room and how he treated it.
GIK Acoustics

TC5 · 26th October 2009

Don't have a specific room yet. Just looking to hear of others experiences with small spaces and what quality they managed to get out of them.

Tonio Ruiz · 26th October 2009

I'm quite happy with mine, it sounds pretty cool while tracking, I'm about to mix now

infiniteposse · 26th October 2009

It's taken some time to work with monitor placement, width and placement of extra treatment, to really get the room dialed in to where I do a mix and walk away feeling confident of how it will reference.

I invested heavily in Realtraps and really hit my room hard with them to take care of as much early reflection and low-frequency build up issues as I could. Another thing I did that really helped was make an iTunes playlist with about 20 songs from different artists that I liked and knew well and played that reference on as many systems as I could. That way, when I play it downstairs I can pretty quickly gather how the bass is referencing and sort of re-dial my ears a little. Having a static set of songs to reference has been nice. It's like they're tools.

There's a schematic drawing of the room on my website if you'd like to see dimensions.

antstudio · 11th November 2009

I'm in the final stages of building a very small mixing/recording room. The space is very 8Wx12Lx7H, literally 1/2 of a standard two-car garage. Aggressive room treatment is key. I'm really impressed with the sound I'm getting with just partial treatment finished.

I have a little info and some pre-treatment measurements posted at the link below, and I'll provide post-treatment measurements and updated observations when the build is done.

Small Room Treatment - MusicPlayer Forums

To infiniteposse, thanks for those links and pics. That's a great looking small studio you have and long the lines of what I'd like to do someday.

..ant

26th October 2009	#1
TC5 Gear addict Joined: Oct 2003 Location: 49th parallel Posts: 492 Thread Starter	Those of You with SMALL Control Rooms I would like to hear from people who work in small control rooms any comments on their experience with mixing etc. Or any advice to get the most out of less than ideal spaces. If you can state your room dimensions etc. that would be great. Thanks for any input. __________________ We have reached the limit of what anal probing can teach us.

26th October 2009	#2
Glenn Kuras Gear Guru Joined: Jul 2005 Location: Atlanta, GA Posts: 12,011	What is the size of your room? What problems are you having? Do you have a layout you can post? Here is a Franks (he works with me at GIK) small room and how he treated it. GIK Acoustics __________________ Glenn Kuras GIK Acoustics USA GIK Acoustics Europe 770 986 2789 (USA) +44 (0) 20 7558 8976 (UK) See the NEW Scopus Tuned Trap

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Tonio Ruiz Lives for gear Joined: Jul 2008 Location: Mexico City Posts: 588	I'm quite happy with mine, it sounds pretty cool while tracking, I'm about to mix now __________________ Regards http://www.gearslutz.com/board/photo...ll-studio.html Enjoy Life!! www.trmixroom.com www.myspace.com/tonioruiz www.myspace.com/trmixroom

26th October 2009	#5
infiniteposse Lives for gear Joined: Oct 2002 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 592	It's taken some time to work with monitor placement, width and placement of extra treatment, to really get the room dialed in to where I do a mix and walk away feeling confident of how it will reference. I invested heavily in Realtraps and really hit my room hard with them to take care of as much early reflection and low-frequency build up issues as I could. Another thing I did that really helped was make an iTunes playlist with about 20 songs from different artists that I liked and knew well and played that reference on as many systems as I could. That way, when I play it downstairs I can pretty quickly gather how the bass is referencing and sort of re-dial my ears a little. Having a static set of songs to reference has been nice. It's like they're tools. There's a schematic drawing of the room on my website if you'd like to see dimensions. __________________ Lee http://www.mysterymachinestudio.com www.myspace.com/sonandelder "It's not about the gear, it's about your relationship with the gear." tchadb ---------------------------------------------------- MacPro – Quad 2.66 Ghz, 9 gigs RAM // OS X 10.6.7 // Logic Pro 9.1.4 // UAD 2 Quad & UAD 1e // Apogee Symphony IO// Lavry AD10/DA10 // Dangerous 2-Buss LT // ADAM P22A Nearfield monitors and ADAM Sub // Avantone Mixcubes

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11th November 2009	#6
antstudio Gear maniac Joined: Nov 2009 Posts: 249	I'm in the final stages of building a very small mixing/recording room. The space is very 8Wx12Lx7H, literally 1/2 of a standard two-car garage. Aggressive room treatment is key. I'm really impressed with the sound I'm getting with just partial treatment finished. I have a little info and some pre-treatment measurements posted at the link below, and I'll provide post-treatment measurements and updated observations when the build is done. Small Room Treatment - MusicPlayer Forums To infiniteposse, thanks for those links and pics. That's a great looking small studio you have and long the lines of what I'd like to do someday. ..ant

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