Very asymmetrical room treatment advice please!

[andymac24]

Hey guys! This is only my second post, this place is fantastic.

So anyway I just moved back home after uni and my bedroom is very assymetrical and awkward but rent and food are free so I just have to make do!
I attach a diagram of the room including where I imagined the best place for the desk to be (because it's the only somewhat symmetrical bit of the room ie wall on either side). I wonder if anybody could advise me if this is indeed the best place for the desk? And then where and what kind of wall treatment I may need. I do intend to be both recording and mixing. Basically how would you use the room?
No need to worry about damaging the walls with screws or what have you. The wall opposite the desk in the picture all the way along is vertical until halfway up then slopes into the room so the actual flat ceiling space isn't very large at all.



All help very much appreciated. Cheers!

[Glenn Kuras]

You really would need to test the room to find the best spot, but facing the left wall, IMO would be the best starting point. It is not symmetrical (neither is what you have now) but can be solved with panels to the left and right of you. See the following for some tips on set up and treatments.
GIK Acoustics: Room Setup

[andymac24]

That's probably the only place I can't put it because there is no room for the bed anywhere else in the room except where the desk is in the picture (the drawing isn't perfectly to scale). A user on another forum recommended this, what do you think? :

[HermanV]

Would it be possible to place the bed kind of where the desk is in that last sketch (on that corner)? you could place the desk at the left wall with the speakers shooting towards where the window is

[andymac24]

Only if I got a smaller bed, and it would also mean you would pretty much enter the room and have a bed like right in front of you, just wouldn;t feel like a very chilled room to walk into.

Maybe if somebody told me why where the desk is in my initial picture is so bad, then I could understand better? I just figured its best there because there would be a wall either side of the speakers (although different lenghts) which I can pad out and the opposite wall (behind the chair) is partially sloped which I thought was better then a vertical wall..

[Starlight]

Originally Posted by andymac24

... rent and food are free so I just have to make do!

A little outside the box perhaps bit my opinion, without knowing more about your life, is that you may be able to afford to rent a room somewhere in town that is larger, rectangular, doesn't have a double bed, and can be more successfully used to track and mix. Think of it as your office, the place you go to work without disturbing (or being disturbed by) your loved ones back home.

[andymac24]

lol obviously the best option but I'm afraid I pretty much have to make do with this room and this bed. I've good knowledge of producing and good hardware, but I'm pretty noobie about treating rooms. This is turning out to be very disappointing, I was so excited about enjoying the new desk I built!

So you guys reckon the left wall is best, then the top wall, then where it is now is probably worst of all?

[Starlight]

Have you thought about allowing room for the acoustic treatment? From a starting point of traps in the corners and at the first reflection points, with your desk where you want there is not room for a double bed in the top left corner. I am really not sure how two people and a studio will coexist is such a small room.

Originally Posted by andymac24

Only if I got a smaller bed

Okay, one person, not two. A smaller bed may be the way to make it work.

[Glenn Kuras]

Originally Posted by andymac24

That's probably the only place I can't put it because there is no room for the bed anywhere else in the room except where the desk is in the picture (the drawing isn't perfectly to scale). A user on another forum recommended this, what do you think? :
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not ideal but may work. I would put thick panels on the closet door and when mixing keep the door to the bedroom open. The reason for my suggestion on the other set is you want to fire the speakers down the longest wall to help with nulls and peaks coming from the back wall.

[andymac24]

I'm gonna take some pictures tomorrow and post them so you guys can have a look see just how weird this room is; because of this sloped ceiling there are about a million and one corners. Thanks for the replies so far!