What shape is an ideal room?

[BuildaFriend]

My control room has lots of angles and is not square at all. I need to find the Ideal spot in my room.

When I bring my mixes to my friends real deal studio that has a control room that was designed by a real deal room designer, my mixes sound like total shit. I have the same exact monitoring setup as him. I could spend tons of time compensating by driving there and back but forget that! I am an idealist as often as possible.

I read the sticky at the top of this forum and it has tons of great information but I want more personal advice.

I wish I read it a little bit better because I just blew out my HF drivers and now I'm screwed. I literally watched them smoke.

Where in the room should I be looking for dips/boosts and how do I compensate for them? What kind of treatments would I put where? Is the angle above my DAW acceptable?

Here is what I have to work with, excuse the mess please.

[BuildaFriend]

See, this information is difficult to follow with all of these angles that I have.

How to do it
I am assuming a rectangular room, with speakers at the narrow front wall. Identify the zones at 3/8 (38%) of room length from the front wall and ditto from the back wall. These zones mathematically should have the best balance of room modal activity. Another rule of thumb suggests there is little Low Bass at the room centre. These are useful, often but not always correct, guidelines. However Measurement always trumps Theory. Use these guides only as suggested starting points. Prove by measuring. Be ready for surprises. Using masking tape, label the floor at all significant listening spots, e.g. Engineers seat, Producers seat, Couch. Use descriptive names and numbers for your chosen spots. I use names like L38FC (Left Speaker Front Centre), L38BL (Left Speaker Back Left) and so on. Establish your own system and stick to it. 8 or so spots seems appropriate in a small room. Don’t be afraid to change your spots in response to the graphs. Mount the Microphone or SLM on a stand or tripod. Seated ear height is good. If you use a Mixing Desk and like to prowl around, then include standing ear height. Mix and match heights if you like, but do remember to use fully descriptive labels. I tie a thread with a small weight to the microphone or tripod. The dangling weight over the marked floor spot guarantees repeatable location and height.

[DanDan]

Try to extract the 'way' from what I wrote, rather than specifics.

From your pictures- one speaker is close to a boundary, the other nowhere near. Is there any position option available which would deliver symmetry?
Your surfaces are probably a thin layer of tongue and groove with little enough behind. Bass should sail right through. You should not have extreme dips and peaks due to reflections because the LF won't be strongly reflected.
However, this will lead to a thin sounding room. If you can turn up the woofers, down the tweeters, you can rebalance this.
Active monitors with level and eq controls are the way to go.
Your surfaces will be strongly HF reflecting. Use a Mirror or ETC to locate HF absorbent panels to create a sort of RFZ. These are described at RealTraps and GIK.

DD

[johndykstra]

excluding a full floor plan, my first guess would be facing the window with the AC in it.

[BuildaFriend]

Yeah it seems like I under compensate for the low freq. I tried that spot and that was where I was under reacting.

[gullfo]

try turning 90 degrees to the right so your desk is facing the sloping wall. center yourself on the wall. you'll need some absorbers (on stands will do it) behind you to cut reflections off the flat (assuming that's the alcove) walls.