Post by ezequielcd on Dec 27, 2021 19:36:07 GMT
Hello, Greetings from Argentina. Hope you are fine! For some time I have been thinking about improving the acoustics of my living room. Let's say I use it as a "Studio" but only for listening, mixing and mastering, but not for recording. Nothing too serious, for now as a Hobby.
You see, this room has a quite notorious reverb, not very long, but quite bouncy, and quite a lot of problems in the bass area, with recurring resonances. Most of the work I do with headphones for that reason. I only listen on monitor speakers to have a more realistic perspective of the stereo field. Let's say that as an advantage the room is very irregular and its ceiling is high as it is an old house.
Well, this acoustization is focused more to a better musical listening for enjoyment, than to a critical studio and monitoring listening, so I am not looking to spend a lot of money, or do something too serious / precise or that compromises the aesthetics of the room, because, as I said, is a living room.
I have not been able to find out the room's own resonant modes but I have noticed that there are major problems from 40 Hz to 300 Hz and it gets worse as the frequency goes up. There are times when it combines with certain furniture or parts of the room and resonates a lot.
In addition to the monitors I have attached a Sony subwoofer that goes from 28 Hz - to 200 Hz, (model SA - WMS230) which unfortunately has no crossover to choose from, but its crossover "cut off frequency" is from 200 hz according to the manual. It is a home teather subwoofer from the 2000s that I have been given as a gift, and well, the truth is that it helps the main speakers in the low frequencies where they no longer reach.
I do not have a measurement microphone to measure the frequency curve of the room sadly.
The monitors are about 50 cm from the wall and the subwoofer is under my desk trying not to be stuck on any side of it. I have tried different positions and I think this is the best one, but the experts will tell me!
What I do know is that when I change position in the room, especially in height (e.g. I sit in the couch that is lower than the desk) the subwoofer sounds much louder, obviously, but it's a bit annoying.
I'll proceed to show renders of my Living room in Sketchup. They are made as close to reality as possible, I hope it will be helpful!
Finally I will leave renders with an acoustic plan according to the recommendation of a friend with rock wool panels and bass traps on a wall, but that of course according to what you recommend me, I will be perfecting it!
Important clarifications:
1 - The living room can not be modified in terms of furniture positions, so everything has to be adapted to the current positions.
2 - It is impossible to put panels on the ceiling (at least the large rock wool pendants) because of the design of the lights. (I will attach a picture).
I know I have wrote the bible, but I hope this helps you to better visualize my situation. Nothing better than being detailed and specific!
PD: Here are a G Drive Link with more images: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uM9jG8yT1Ac8mwLE2oxtp-EP8eEhtRY9?usp=sharing
Cheers!
You see, this room has a quite notorious reverb, not very long, but quite bouncy, and quite a lot of problems in the bass area, with recurring resonances. Most of the work I do with headphones for that reason. I only listen on monitor speakers to have a more realistic perspective of the stereo field. Let's say that as an advantage the room is very irregular and its ceiling is high as it is an old house.
Well, this acoustization is focused more to a better musical listening for enjoyment, than to a critical studio and monitoring listening, so I am not looking to spend a lot of money, or do something too serious / precise or that compromises the aesthetics of the room, because, as I said, is a living room.
I have not been able to find out the room's own resonant modes but I have noticed that there are major problems from 40 Hz to 300 Hz and it gets worse as the frequency goes up. There are times when it combines with certain furniture or parts of the room and resonates a lot.
In addition to the monitors I have attached a Sony subwoofer that goes from 28 Hz - to 200 Hz, (model SA - WMS230) which unfortunately has no crossover to choose from, but its crossover "cut off frequency" is from 200 hz according to the manual. It is a home teather subwoofer from the 2000s that I have been given as a gift, and well, the truth is that it helps the main speakers in the low frequencies where they no longer reach.
I do not have a measurement microphone to measure the frequency curve of the room sadly.
The monitors are about 50 cm from the wall and the subwoofer is under my desk trying not to be stuck on any side of it. I have tried different positions and I think this is the best one, but the experts will tell me!
What I do know is that when I change position in the room, especially in height (e.g. I sit in the couch that is lower than the desk) the subwoofer sounds much louder, obviously, but it's a bit annoying.
I'll proceed to show renders of my Living room in Sketchup. They are made as close to reality as possible, I hope it will be helpful!
Finally I will leave renders with an acoustic plan according to the recommendation of a friend with rock wool panels and bass traps on a wall, but that of course according to what you recommend me, I will be perfecting it!
Important clarifications:
1 - The living room can not be modified in terms of furniture positions, so everything has to be adapted to the current positions.
2 - It is impossible to put panels on the ceiling (at least the large rock wool pendants) because of the design of the lights. (I will attach a picture).
I know I have wrote the bible, but I hope this helps you to better visualize my situation. Nothing better than being detailed and specific!
PD: Here are a G Drive Link with more images: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uM9jG8yT1Ac8mwLE2oxtp-EP8eEhtRY9?usp=sharing
Cheers!
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