Here's the latest version of the Acoustic Treatment Cheat Sheet: mastering.com/acoustic-treatment-cheat-sheet-lp?el=youtubeorganic Designed this to be a handy reference tool as you go through the process of setting up your own home studio. Enjoy!

My favourite room treatment recap thus far; very helpful and systematic, thank you!

Just listened to the previous video and the difference in the reverb between the pre and post treatment is amazing.

Very well done. Simple straight forward and practical. Loved the concept of the first reflection point.

23:42 - I can see you had both speakers active for the second measurement. Comb filtering will give an inaccurate frequency response, especially in the higher frequencies (above 500Hz). If you're going to use both speakers at the same time during measurement, it's best to have an FFT active while whitenoise being played, then shift the mic position until you see the comb filtering disappear. Some of this may be due to early reflections from the desk, but it's most likely due to the mic being at a different distance from one monitor than the other.

This video showed me I need to just hire a professional.

Incredibly informative! thank you so much for taking the time to create this series!!!

A great, GREAT video, perhaps the best out there! Thank you so much Rob!

Thank you for making this so clear! I've had such a hard time getting any answers, and I appreciate your simple yet effective explanations! Consider me subscribed!

It’s refreshing to see a musician make sense regarding panels versus foam. And I’m not saying that just because of my own DIY panel video. This is something I’ve been teaching pro voice over for years for their booths and watching them sky rocket after getting the boom out of the room is no shocker. Great stuff, man.

Nice discussion of reflection points

Hi my friend. I watch this videos a few months ago, and was helpful... i build my DIY bass tramps and acoustic panels for the walls... recently, I put an old matress in l one corner... And it was the best thing a could ever do hahaha sound absortion is awesome!! Thanks a lot!

Great thanks to make such a video with full set up guide for a home studio.. its really amazing and very helpful.

Thanks for this video. It really gives a better understanding for someone who is not quite a professional, but is tired of all these "DIY" videos that don't really explain anything.

I got something out of this the first time I saw it. I saved it to watch it again and I’ll probably watch it again in the future too. Cheers Joe.

Very informative and easy to comprehend! Good work

Another fantastic video! REW is a pretty effective program...when combined with a decent DSP its really effective.....a little bit of EQ, time alignment, phase adjustment, and crossovers can go a very long way i learned how to do this for car audio which can be a nightmare depending on the car....ive found it easier with active crossovers because thats what i learned on.....most monitors are passively crossed

When I first started building my home studio I would've never believed I have to go a step further than the professional studios I've been to. It's fun but such a challenge too

One of the issues I've come across is acoustic guitars that are hanging on the wall. Resonance makes them hum a bit. Not a big deal because I don't record in this room much but I have to pay attention to SPL while mixing. I agree that the Sonarworks product is excellent. It took my bass response from the mud. The rest of the room is relatively flat with lots of dampening (futon).

Very great and informative video! 👍Thanks for your tipps! You explained it very good! 👍

great video! thanks for the help.

you explain very very well and easy, thanks so much!!!

13:12, about the "Front Walls" u need treatment especially if you have speakers whose bass firing port is on the back... Like in your case...

Very good material... Thanks for the upload.

I really enjoyed this video as much as learnt from it. I want to thank you. Keep it up and Viva la musica!

You mentioned the bed...I have a cushion chair in my studio, which is a small 10x11 room. That made a huge difference! I didn’t realize it u til I removed the chair from the room. I quickly moved it back in.

Great video. A lot of information. Thanks!

Very well explained!!! Thank You!

Fantastic job, good work.

Just built my studio. Fully done, room within room, decoupled, 12 inch thick walls, all materials etc. It's super quiet in and out but now I have to treat it. The reflection off the last layer of heavy drywall is insane, lots of reverb. There is some bass funkiness for sure. I'm gonna do floor to ceiling corner bass traps. And probably cover the entire studio with 1/2" high density foam cuz its cheap and it will eliminate reflections. The walls have tons of materials (mlv, sonopan, roxul, etc) so I don't think I have to do much to just take that awful echo down. I achieved an STC of 45+ which I'm happy with.

Nice to see someone with some solid and easy to understand knowledge. Thanks heaps.

This is the best video on acoustic treatment that I have ever seen. I learned a lot. Thank you.

One of the most accurate and well explained video about acoustic treatment! thanks Rob!

Thanks a lot for these vidoes, really helpful :)

Very well presented, thanks.

This is the most informative video I’ve ever watched on sound treatment for home studio! Thanks Rob!! 🙏🏽

nice video bro. I learn so much with you! big up

A lot of this stuff also works for a home theater. Only major difference is you are just sitting further away from the speakers. Doing the mirror trick will help you place your panels on the wall and dictate where you put a rug if you don't have carpet. Lame thing with home theater though is you have to find the best location for your speakers, then equalize the levels, then install your paneling, then re-equalize your speakers again.

Damn these videos are awesome. Glad I came across this channel. Thanks!

Finally a video on acoustic treatment that doesn't leave me more confused!

This was a great video on acoustic treatment on a budget. Can you also do a video that considers soundproofing materials for musicians?

this whole series was great!

you're a real G for this one, cheers!

You have changed my music, and consequently changed my life. Thank you.

I've had many rooms over the years and have never had one that was perfect. Treating rooms is often not easy. That said you can become familiar with the deficiencies and begin to compensate in your head providing that you use many different references such as your car, living room, multiple studio speakers and, yes, go listen to your mix in a commercial studio for a half hour. I believe Rob mentioned this in another video somewhere. Great Video.

Great video! Very clear. I need to improve the acoustic of my studio, it's a not so big room and the main sound source are my saxophones (soprano, alto and tenor), I don't use to do a lot of mixing/mastering work. I just want to reduce the reflections for getting a nicer audio in my recordings and when practicing. Could I avoid the bass traps? Would foam do the work? What percentage of the ceiling should I cover with panels/foam? Thank you very much in advance.

Incredibly helpful video!

Very helpful, thank you!

Definetely the best acoustic threatment video series on KZfaq, very good information and you made it really interesting. Love that you took the time to share your measurements! Thank you very much!!

Brilliant, very very helpful indeed, and personally the timing couldn't be better as I'm setting up my own room which looks a lot like yours!

Do you think that having 2" air gaps for every panel could play a role in those mid dips you were experiencing? Since good panels do so well at managing mids-highs, could the air gaps be the culprit of where those particular mid frequencies were maybe getting too trapped? Idk... Just a thought. Did you ever get that sorted out? Thanks for the great video!

Actually front wall needs absorption very often because many speakers have low frequency ports which are blasting to the front wall and having in mind that the wavelength of the low frequencies you will better treat this wall instead of only relying on corner bass traps.Otherwise in front ported or closed speakers it is valid point.Cheers

Put a mirror on your first reflection point and look it from your monitors and place D shape diffusers to there, also you could make your own diffusers pretty cheap too.

Awesome channel!

Thanks for the video, really helpful!! Can I ask you what would you do if the studio is in a bedroom and the desk doesn’t have the same distance to one side wall to the other? I’m my case I have the right wall next to me, but the left wall is further apart and has a wooden door closet

Hey Rob. Great explanation of room treatment, thanks! Sort of related question, I also have an Apollo Twin, and looks like your cabling looks fairly permanent. Are they then hooked up to a patch bay or do you plug things in and out of it?

Extremely informative and helpful! Thank you!

Hi Rob! Thanks for all the tips and tricks. One question: you mentioned covering the back of your self made acoustic panel (18:08). Did you just stretch the cloth over the back to keep the air gap? Thanks for your help with this. 😃

Amazing video thank u so much!

did you figured out what causes the mid dips ? and how you fixed it ? im starting now to make my "living room" beat making/mix station a better listening expirience

i use curtains, it works like a charm! and i deal with a little bump on 140hz with sonarworks SoundID

This is the vedio i was exactly looking for 👏🏽👏🏽

This is an awesome video I used this information for dampening noise at my facility and... "it just works"..)

That’s a very detailed video. I got a room that is not perfectly shaped, I have a little part of it (the entrance) that’s making the room shape weird. If I manage to treat the first reflection points, will it help or do I need a new room ?

i thought you had forgot about this part , been waiting for this :)

Very useful, thanks man

I also did air gaps in my panels making cardbord strips with slits so i could slot them together macking a cardboard grid

All these videos should be titled: "How to spend a lot of money after being financially crippled already from being a musician". I think its time for some double egg crate and 1x4s

Thank you!!! Very helpful

Be careful when considering EQ to correct dips in your frequency response. If your listening position happens to be in the null point caused by multiple reflections, adding gain will not help, since you are not only adding gain to the direct sound, but also to its inverted phase, so they basically continue to cancel each other out. The best you can do is add additional treatment, if you can isolate from where the reflections are coming. This point is mentioned in the REW documentation, and I'd be interested to know if Sonarworks admits to it as a limitation. EQ DOES work well however, for peaks in the response!

Great video, man!

Dude, amazing video.

Great video! Question: so granted this is far from optimal, but the room I have to work with is an unfinished basement with a big, old metal (aluminum?) furnace with heating ducts going out in every direction. Is there something I can do about that? Also, one wall is concrete and the opposite side is just where the stairs are, and i've hung moving blankets over it. Am I just totally boned here?

Very important knowledge

Hey man, thank you for this info! Super helpful!! I built my own little studio but I’m having problems with 150hz. Every time there’s a low D (Bass or piano), the room gets blasted with a huge peak of frequency! Any idea on how to solve that? While recording I just eq that freq down, but it doesn’t help my mix

This is one of the most thorough and helpful vids on acoustic treatment I've seen so far. Thanks!

Fine video. Your acoustic treatment looks exactly like the one I have, but then again I use GIK Acoustic stuff and got advice from them when buying.

Thanks for uploading this great video. Do you have a video where you actually explain and also show how to find the reflection points with your phone? I didn't get that at all. Thank you.

Thank you for this!!

Great tips man! Thanks a lot \m/

Really helpful, I’m literally in the same boat, new house and the opportunity to make a room a mixing room. I’ve got new Focal front ported speakers and a sub with footswitch bypass (I do electronic music with an ear to club play out so need to be aware of the very low end), Sonarworks 4 and will treat the room with rock/glass mineral wool panels I’m making myself. Plus an old sofa! So thank you, this is all very helpful and especially as I can see someone else in the UK doing it and not someone using stuff only available in foreign lands!

Where you show moving an acoustic panel to create a vocal recording area in the back half of the room, do you recommend more side wall and ceiling treatments for that half of the room? I noticed your drawings mainly focus on the front area where you mix.

I have nearly the same room dimensions and treatments. Just thinking about to set up a 2.1 System with temblor t10. Can you recommend a sub or is it making more "damage"? Btw, thanks for all the vids!

Ive got my ceiling tilted like 30° and a short balcony from the second floor of my house over the room Im planning to use, this may need ceiling conditioning panels or something like that? or may it be fine so I have to treat the walls only?

Such a good vid ty

Great job man, thx!

thank u for ur great explanation ... one help : can you please give tips for setting up acoustic panels for my 7.1 home theatre which includes 6 units of 6 inch drivers, 1 klipsch r25c center channel, 10 inch sub n denon 7.1 receiver. room size 11*12 ft. my usage is just personal n i am not an audiophile ... appreciate ur help in this regard ... thank u :)

Great video. I've bookmarked this and referred to sections of it several times by now :) One comment: in 23:15 you wonder about losing your low mids in a "weird dip" and mentioned you need to look into it. I believe this is the drawback of treating the reflection points with absorbing foam. If you scatter the sound instead of absorbing it - as with a QRD diffuser - you won't lose this reverb. This will affect your EQ as well, so it's worth working on. You'd have to replace at least some panels with diffusers to get there.

Hello, since in this video you use Absorbers to do the work, I'm wondering if Diffusor suit for home studio treatment? Usually, what's the case to use Diffusor? Thanks.

great vid and insight

Really good comprehensive & thorough tutorials thanks.. I learned heaps! Just thinking about alternative panel materials.. I wonder how industrial hemp fiber tests? I know it's fireproof & humidity-proof & an enviro-friendly insulator. Has anyone tried this for acoustic treatment? TIAx

Wow...now I'm really confused and overwhelmed.

I was considering doing natural acoustic recordings using only the room's own resonance as the effect. In that case could u eq n compress as it us being recorded n still have a good mix?

I'm using this video to make a point. Heard a Nashville studio session musician say he loves it wen they put him in the open live room. He said he thought everything should be recorded in an open room. The only reason for sound treatment is for the mixing guy to be able to not get feed back wen listening thru speakers. That is it. After listening to hundreds of these videos I can tell u the best type of room to record in is a rectangular room with unvarnished raw wood on the floor, walls n ceilings. High ceilings if possible. N cut all 90 degree angles out to 45 degrees. Use 1 by 6 or 1 by 8 planks beveled in all of the corners. Completely open as possible. That would be ur live room n tracking individual takes. Vocals, acoustic guitar n everything else. N since all u need is a mic, some cable n a laptop u r mobile. U could find an empty swimming pool to track drums or create a metal resonator for bass like an old stove or metal 55 gal drum in front of the amp to give it a metallic sound. I played my acoustic guitar in front of an old stove with door open n recorded on my phone not purposely just because that is where I normal sat n wrote music n it sounded phenomenal. U do not need to deaden sound. Just sound proofing found outside noise is all. The wooden room I described is the ultimate recording space for all instruments including vocals. End of story. If the engineer needs a dead space to mix in than treat a small office space to do mix down. Real simple.

If carpet is already absorbing the higher frequencies, is putting acoustic panels on the reflection points a bad idea as it will only absorb these frequencies further? Or should I use additional bass traps for the first reflection points? I also have a window near the side wall

Is it enough to have acoustic panels/foams just on the corners (with bass traps), on the part where the first reflections come (with sound absorbers), and on the rear wall (with some sound absorbers and diffusers to make the sound sounds natural)?

@Musician on a mission: When you measure your room ( especially with a window outbreak like yours), do you measure between the corners? or do you take into account the distance of the outbreak also ? Because this can have some impact on the location of the 38% spot, no ?

Create Regardless!!! I love that!!!

What if your room has a slanted roof, like an attic room? Where would you put acoustic treatment then?

What do u suggest about using 5 mm thick blankets placed from a distance of 10 inches from walls? Would it be helpful?