I give lectures on acoustics and room treatments. In addition, I cover this topic in my own music production courses at SSR. With technical advances and computing power as it is now, the entire process of making hits in home studios are carried out, unless of course you need a real orchestra! People with home studios often do not realize the importance of the acoustic environment. We tend to be much more excited to spend a few hundred pounds on a shiny new synthas acoustically treating a room. There is also the question of aesthetics.
My lecture on acoustics at universities can be six hours long and can sometimes be difficult to keep some of the music and less interested in science students, especially when I start to standing waves. If we are in a space small enough (a control room or class room and lecture hall), is a good way vibing things, measure the distance between two parallel solid walls and try to create astanding wave. You can determine what the frequency of the standing wave for your space with this simple formula:
V / 2 d = f V = velocity of sound (343m/sec)
d = room dimensions in meters (length, width or height)
f = frequency of the standing wave.
Other standing waves occur at harmonics of the frequency, 2, 3 and 4 times the basic, but obviously is, the higher the frequency the less noticeable they are. Why not try it out yourself. Grab a tape measure and use theOscillator in your DAW. You need to have solid parallel walls in your room. Standing waves are the reason you never see massive parallel walls in a recording studio control room handled professionally.
Neil Johnston of Focusrite showed me the KRK Ergo. Wow, what a small box that (if it does what it does say it of course). KRK make fantastic nearfield monitors and I would say is to trust a company. The first time I heard a pair of KRK monitors was as if I supportMark Spike Stent Mix Madonna at the Olympics. He had sounded a pair of KRK the fabulous 9000s. At that time, pretty much all the passive monitors and so were the 9000s. It seemed crazy, but a lot of free mixer karted their monitors to the election of a studio to another, but only used what amp was in the studio. Active Monitors that you solved.
I've always had a problem with bass in my studio. I am happy, very high ceilings but unfortunately I think most ofmy bass gets lost up there in the chandelier. I get a little bit at the bottom, but much further back seat of my position in front of the monitor. I treated my room behind my monitor and I have some bookshelves on the back with the law so beautiful diffusers for the midrange frequencies. I could of course have lost the chandelier and replaced it with a giant bass trap, but I do not think that would have been my friend feel that! And frankly, I think chandeliers, high ceilings and myLocation of the studio, I do so now stick through the head at certain points, just before all the waves that have diffused through my bookshelves to check the lower end. Even if I in the car, which is only on the driveway. It is uncomfortable, but I know the curves so well now in space, I can make it work. So maybe the KRK Ergo is a much more convenient solution for me. It works like the Bose stereo system by drawing from a load of test tones (all frequencies simultaneouslyinterestingly enough), whose control with a microphone and return the data into the software (Mac and PC btw). The box will then optimize your curve and theoretically, you are a much truer curve where you get the microphone. Gav said he would be in a position to try for me. I want to get back to you with my thoughts, I'm sure if it as good as they say they sell bucket loads. Given Bose have done something similar for the consumer market for years I wonder why nobody thoughtTo do this, made ages ago right now with so many more records in home studios. I also wonder if the technology is better than Bose or when a patent. If not, I do not CRC the only people making these boxes in 2010. I wonder if they do something about standing waves. I do not have to ask at the time to think Neil. Oh, that thinking is what me standing waves here in the first place!
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