Live Room/Bedroom Setup Help Please

[dhitts]

Hello acoustics wizards,

I have spent a bunch of time combing through the site here and the links you all have provided to newbies like myself and feel like I have gotten to a reasonable place in setting up my room.

As a result of the research I built:

3 4" thick 703 panels 2'x4' &
3 corner wedges with 24" fronts and 16" heights
And now have 3 2'x4' 703 panels left over

My goal is to have my bedroom be the best possible recording space possible. At this time, I track on headphones and do not have monitors and will not be mixing myself.

Sadly, my room is small... 9'x9.5'x8.5' with a closet on the longest wall. The closet has mirrored glass doors which this forum has said must come down (this is so, right? I have been getting terrible resonances on e-barre chords... sounds like someone is striking a bell somewhere behind the mic).

I also have an auralex foam kit of 24 1'x1' panels/diffusors which can augment the 703'.

I made a mock-up in google sketch-up to help the process:


From above


From the doorway


From behind the closet


Ok. Hope you're still with me - and if so THANKS SO MUCH!

Questions:

1) Is the bed/desk in a reasonable position for recording?
2) Have I placed the large absorbers I built optimally?
3) Are the corner absorbers effective at those sizes?
4) What is the best use of the remaining 3 703 panels? Another 4'' absorber? 3 2'' absorbers? Extending a corner absorber?
5) Where are the optimal treatment areas for the Auralex foam?
6) Where would be the best place to record from to optimize the sound?
7) How do I treat the ceiling? That little grey box is the vent from the heater/air conditioner and I dont want to create fire-risk or freeze my room.

I realize that the room is sub-optimal in terms of size. Sadly, I cannot do anything about that. I just want to get the best recordings possible out of the space I currently have. Once I graduate graduate-school maybe I can get a better space and move all the DIY sound absorbers in there, but until then I hope you can help me to best treat what I have now.

Thanks so much for reading,

dhitts

[Ethan Winer]

A small room needs to be mostly dead sounding. The closer the walls are to the source and microphones, the more you need to get rid of any reflections. So you're on the right track. But you should probably have more absorption on the door and the two adjacent walls, then put the performer and microphones in that part of the room.

--Ethan

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