monitor placement

[samth3mancgp]

Check out my thread "treating an apartment bedroom" a few down from yours. I too started by placing my mix position away from the wall and ran several tests. Each test had the position of the speakers and/or the mic moved forward or back in the room. I found that the flattest response in my room before any treatment was with the monitors almost flat against the wall! It improved a null at 70hz by 10dB! I was so surprised. If your room measures better in another spot then by all means, move it there! .

[jwl]

In a cubic room you will need a lot of bass trapping to flatten things out, but it will always be an uphill battle for a small cubic room. Good setup can help also.

Details here:
RealTraps - How To Set Up a Room
RealTraps - Acoustic Basics

[djkaldor]

actualy the point that i hear the best is 38% of the room

[OpusOfTrolls]

If you have a measurement microphone, you really should take sweeps and post the results. It would be a guessing game to recommend anything without a intuition of what is happening in the room.

If you are able to get a good response except for one or two nasty peak/nulls, you could very well use helmholtz basstraps to fix it up.

[Glenn Kuras]

Originally Posted by djkaldor

actualy the point that i hear the best is 38% of the room

That really is just a starting point. A lot of times having the speakers close to the wall and moving forward helps. I also agree though that more bass trapping will help but work on placement first then treat will bass trapping.

[djkaldor]

i have some measurements but they are before i add the room treatment. i also moved the speakers since then. however these 2 measuremetns was on my first mixing position (red) and at 38% of the room (green)

[Glenn Kuras]

You want to measure each speaker but green looks the best out of the 2.

[DanDan]

+1, single speaker measures, they can be combined in the software or you can do it physically, but that is an extra.

Try different widths and heights within reason.
I would use the the Spectrum Analyser to get an instant impression of the no go areas, then start to hone in.
As you get close to optimum use 50mm increments.
Ultimately you have to balance all of the factors, e.g. Best LF, Best Imaging, Symmetry, Ergonimics, and so on. It's a bit like Air Traffic Control....
DD

[djkaldor]

i see what u mean. once i am competlely done with my treatment i will run the tests