Small room acoustic

[nvn]

Hello, My first post here.
I'm building a small home studio (music production, no recording, mainly for mixing so the response obviously need to be flat).

Here are some pictures of what the room is gonna be.






3.34mx2.10m
height 2.80m

Do you think the acoustic is going to be decent? I'm going to buy in the near future the behr microphone so I can calibrate and correct the acoustic with dyi panels (maybe I'll need tons of bass traps?).

Thanks.

Edit: By the way, my speakers are the krk rp5 g2.

[Glenn Kuras]

The layout looks good. Just treat the hell out of it with bass traps and early reflection panels. You can use the following as a guide for acoustic set up.
GIK Acoustics: Room Setup

[Weasel9992]

Originally Posted by nvn

(maybe I'll need tons of bass traps?).

Edit: By the way, my speakers are the krk rp5 g2.

Oh yeah...you will. That room is pretty small, so plan on doing pretty much nothing but 4" panels, 6" panels and/or corner filling bass traps.

The RP5's will be good for that room...they won't pump too much low frequency energy into it.

Frank

[jhbrandt]

Originally Posted by nvn

I'm building a small home studio (music production, no recording, mainly for mixing so the response obviously need to be flat). Do you think the acoustic is going to be decent? I'm going to buy in the near future the behr microphone so I can calibrate and correct the acoustic with dyi panels

The acoustics will only be decent if you treat it properly. You will be very close to the side walls so be sure to treat them with absorptive panels.

A room that size will have wide mode spacings (standing waves) that must be treated with substantial bass trapping.

Like Frank said, " pretty much nothing but 4" panels, 6" panels and/or corner filling bass traps."

Originally Posted by nvn

(maybe I'll need tons of bass traps?).

YUP.

[Kelly Dueck]

A quick, relatively inexpensive way to get some bass trapping in a small space like that is to line pretty much the entire front wall with bales of acoustical weight fiberglass insulation. Stand them up on end and fill the whole front wall. Just leave them in the bags, the low frequencies won't see the plastic bags and you don't want fiberglass floating around the room. Then cover the ugliness with a heavy curtain. Watch out, though, that this doesn't push your mix position back into the very center of the room -- which is where you don't want to be.

You will likely need further trapping in the rear corners, too and there you can use some nicer looking foam or other commercial traps. But as others have posted, you're going to hear lots of "tub" in that space. As you continue to treat the room and run frequency sweeps you will be amazed how much bass trapping you need. When we built our test studio, we just kept pouring on the traps.

[Weasel9992]

Originally Posted by Kelly Dueck

When we built our test studio, we just kept pouring on the traps.

That's the case most of the time.

Welcome to GS Kelly...lots of love for KEL Audio around here.

Frank