Standing waves. If you work in parallel room, don't stick your monitors in the corners - will be too boomy. The point is to minimize refractions and standing waves.

I stuck difussers on ceiling, placed a huge IKEA shelf opposite wall from monitors, bass traps in corners and hung an insulated panel from ceiling right above where monitors would be.

I read in several mags that you want to take a mirror and place it against the wall. look into it to see if you see your monitor. If you do, insulation goes there.

No room is perfect, unless custom-built and you can spend thousands of dolars and hundreds of hours making it better but not getting anywhere. So many people work in shitty rooms and make hits without all the nonsense that detracts you from producing.

Sean Tyas
Airbase - Jezper Suderlund
Roger Shah

And list goes on. I bought shit load of books on acoustics and formulas for gypsum, concrete, sandbags, etc. and in the end - none of it fucking matters. If you get to the point where it does, most likely you're making money that would pay for it.

Armin's:


Deadmau5:

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Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate

comparing armins and deadmaus studios its not hard to see whos the creative one of them

armins studio looks like its just for interviews, he probably make everything in logic in his bedroom instead. im actually shocked to see cables in and out of the patchbay, and powerleds on some of the gear. i think more museum when i see it: "this is how things were done before".

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Originally posted by Eric J I know a lot of producer friends of mine that have tons of gear, but the just stick most of it in a closet, cause they can't bear to part with it.

I'm like this with pretty much everything I own. I spent a lot of stuff on camera gear and it's been used only a handful of times, I've got MIDI controllers lying around my house that never get touched, hell, I've even got Xbox games that I've had for like 4 years that I'll probably never play again but still don't want to get rid of them.

The only hobby related possessions I think I've ever sold were my 1210s and Serato, which I sort of regret so I just don't really want to make that mistake again.