Acoustic treatment and sub placement,...

[Myrok Rolles]

Place the sub as far away from the walls as possible... or place the sub in the listenining position and play a song... then crawl around the room and find out where it sounds best.. That's a good place to put your sub! The only thing about building a mini-room out of absorption is the fact that the room will be super, super dead. A couple diffusion panels would work wonders in a room full of absorption..

[cvriv]

Well the mini room is going to be well,... mini. Just big enough to get the desk and myself in there comfortably. The dimensions of the room is going to be about 6'H x 8'L x 6'W. I should still place the sub in the listening position and crawl around? Should the cone be facing the desk or away from the desk? A completely dead room is a bad thing? Why?Where should i place the diffusers in this mini room? Why do i want to diffuse the sound? The sound from the monitors or sub or both?

[Golitan11]

When you place the sub in the listening position, does the orientation of the sub mather?

[cvriv]

I don't know. That's what I want to know. Also,... why is a super dead room bad? I'm stuck between building a super dead room around my audio workstation or just placing acoustic foam on my walls.

I just got my Auralex MoPads the other day,.... holy hell. How is this crap so expensive!!! It's friggin foam!!! This is not the first time I have come across this type of foam. Anyone know where this stuff can be had for less? maybe from a generic foam manufacture?

[Myrok Rolles]

Cone should be facing the back wall. In a room that size you'd be better off without a sub and just a nice pair of speakers like 7" would do you good. Why is a completely dead room bad? Well.. it's not as bad as a room with terrible reflections all over the place, but if there is no life to the room that's what it will sound like when you're mixing... you can put reverb on your mix to simulate any space but when you're mixing it will be like listening to the sound of the simulated space inside the sound of your dead room, you know what I mean? It'll be like mixing in a vocal booth. I think you'd be better off treating the critical points in the room (overhead mixing position, corners, first reflection points on the sides) and then trying to add some diffusers along the way to liven up the space a little bit.. or try building some of your own if you want to save some money and learn some stuff along the way..

[Glenn Kuras]

I don't know. That's what I want to know. Also,... why is a super dead room bad? I'm stuck between building a super dead room around my audio workstation or just placing acoustic foam on my walls

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It is not as long as you are absorbing across the whole frequency range.. The problem is thin panels or foam will only effect the upper frequencies leaving the low end to bounce around the room. That is why bass trapping is key to treatment.

Testing Acoustic Foam Bass Traps