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Room Acoustics
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| JVH |
Hi, I just wanted to know whether, in general, large rooms or small rooms were better acoustically.
Also, does an angled roof really make that much of a difference?
I ask because I'm currently in a large cubish shaped room (Probably 5m x 5m) with a flat roof but I have the option of moving into a smaller room (probably 2.5m x 3.5m) which has a nicely angled roof.
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| dEEkAy |
doesnt really matter for a home producer.
just make sure u dont have too much "reverb" in your room (and if you do, get something that absorbs it)
get some decent speakers instead :p |
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| Chronosis |
| quote: | Originally posted by dEEkAy
doesnt really matter for a home producer.
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It matters.
There's no general rule that larger/smaller room would sound better than the other. They just echo differently. Think of sound waves as laser lights (coming from your speakers) and walls as mirrors. You would want as less as possible lights reflecting from the walls to your listening position. That's why there's absorption used on the walls to absorb the waves before they reflect to you. And diffusors to scatter the waves so they don't all reflect directly to you. |
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| JVH |
| yeah but you would think that if the sound has furtehr to travel (ie. in a larger room) then the reflections would be weaker. |
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| DJ 00 Tommy |
| They may be weaker but because the waves have to travell further you get more of a delayed echo. |
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| skot_e |
| Accoustics is important, as is a good pair of monitors. You want to get the flatest frequency response you can to give you the possibility of an 'even' mix. Once finished, compare the mix on different systems and see how it sounds. |
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| JVH |
| yeah I have good monitors. Can anyone give me a definitive answer? |
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| skot_e |
What happens in a room is that the amplitude of the herz are manipulated by surface materials that reflect ranges of the audible spectrum differently and by reverberation and echos that're affected by room size and dimension. What a listener hears from the signal chain is the audible frequency range of the original tone after it's been manipulated by these room variables.
Different rooms will have different variables - Every brand of monitor and every room tell a different story.
i guess you caould say it doesn't matter which one you choose, both will have their faults. Depends on how much room you want to use.
hope this helps. |
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| BLS |
also, you don't want any of the walls to be parallel to each other...
(I forget the exact name for the problem... but parallel walls will cas bass to 'flutter' about the room)
tim / bls |
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| Lunar Phase 7 |
| It's called standing waves. They are a nightmare in cube/square rooms. |
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| skot_e |
| Unless you can reconstruct the rooms you are in, buy some accoustic tratment for the walls. |
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| Jason_R |
What's the cheapest way to get accoustic tratment for the walls.
I was looking at some sort of foam tiles but they seem really expensive. Anyone know the cheapest place to get some or if it's possible to make your own? |
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