Small room = small monitors?

[BJosephs]

Hey, all


I recently moved to a smaller place and had to shoe horn my project studio into a "dining area" about 6" wide and 7 feet front to back. I brought my event studio precison 8s with me and I'm starting to wonder if they are too big for the space. I have no treatment at this time and would like to explore it but I can even fit anything on the side wall next to the monitors.

I'm sure there is something wierd going on with my bass and even worse, I don't get a lot of detail in my quieter instruments/ reverb tails. I think this is due to a lack of treatment but I wanted advice on wether it might be smart to down size to a 5-6 inch monitor as well.

Any thoughts would be great... I can post a picture later if that would help.



Brian

[ritelec]

8"

[BJosephs]

That should say 6' (feet)wide above by the way... Not inches.

[BJosephs]

Here's a quick snapshot I found on my phone if that helps anyone help me.



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[ritelec]

I thought thats what you meant. And I meant keep the 8" speakers.


There's nothing wrong with that picture.

Put some absorption where you can, Yes you don't have much room but hang a rug or movers blanket to cut some of that reflection from the sheetrock. Rugs aren't the way to go if you have the room for traps and absorbers to stop reflections and trapping, but you have no room. Don't sweat. Kill the highs so your ears don't bleed and ring. (by the way, my "whole" room is carpet, I installed it for live playing years ago. Recently, I've been tuning the room with corner traps, clouds, early reflection points. The carpets still up. I can see in measuring the room how the carpet may effect whats going on here, but it's all good. I plan in the future to remove it and add wood, but it's not a big deal) SO...hang some rug. And make some music (and reference in headphones too)

[BJosephs]

Ok, so your opinion is to do some reflection control on the walls, some bass control if possible, and get back to work. That's a fair point of view. Anyone else want to second that provide a different point of view?

Thanks

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[boggy]

Keep your speakers, try to find a best possible position for it and for you, with measurements, and do a heaviest bass treatment as your space allows. Treat all walls and ceiling...

[Glenn Kuras]

Originally Posted by BJosephs

Ok, so your opinion is to do some reflection control on the walls, some bass control if possible, and get back to work. That's a fair point of view. Anyone else want to second that provide a different point of view?

Thanks

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I can second about treatment.
Kind of hard to tell but it looks like you may want to bring your monitors in closer. See the following about set up.
Monitor Positioning. Acoustic Panels and Bass Traps.

[Razik]

I thought you might be interested in this thread:

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[mcleandave]

Not You, But Me. In December 1948 we rebuilt WHKC Columbus Ohio for FM broadcasting. Our control room was much your size and we really enjoyed the four Western Electric, AIR SUSPENSION, 8" monitor speakers. Each was driven by six tube stages of Langevin amplification. (The low distorion raised the threshold of pain so high that no one could talk against them.)

The speakers were in a Flying Coffin positioned against a wall and the ceiling which was perforated Celotex. (The studios were treated to the Walt Disney Studio's bullet-proof concept of Poly-Cylindrical Diffusers -- which was also a big hit in Columbia's Liederkrantz Hall in NYC.)

That experience leads to the suggestion that you have, or had, a Standing Wave Problem. IF TWO of the dimensions of your room are the same you have Voltage Addition of Standing-Wave Distortions. In that small a room, the frequencies would be high and the difusers small??