On another note, maybe you can make a video about this. What is the balance between having some reverb and a “lively” room vs no reverb at all but a perfect space to hear your speakers perfectly transparent? I listened to one of your videos about the anechoic chamber and that made sense but from a podcasting/KZfaq/watching movies in a home theater point of view, how much reverb should you have? Is my friend correct in being snarky at your overly “lively” room that makes it hard to hear you on this channel or are these two different purposes and some reverb is good? As a guitarist, I can play straight through and expensive amp like a Soldano and not love the dryness but then it sounds AMAZING with a little ball reverb but is this true with movies and hifi stereo or should you aim for a more dead room for audio that has already been mixed and mastered? -P

Really nitpicky I would say. I percieve his voice in very natural way even with headphones. By the looks of his treatment in the room, it looks very minimalistic with very good result. My 2c. Still courious about his view on this topic.

@@pulDag I think his audio has gotten better. This was the video I shared that was in the same room but with much more reverb kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gMqZac18sc7Kkqs.html

That's like taking your Ferrari to a mechanic that specializes in fixing Ferraris and then talking mad shit to him because he drives a Ford Focus. Why would he need a specially treated room and thousand dollars worth of equipment to make a FREE (!!!) educational video?

I was thinking the same thing. Then again, I can’t speak German at all, and Jesco speaks English with an American accent with only the very slightest trace of his native language.

He completely lost me when he said that. I don't even know what a square room is? In my mind squares are 2 dimensional and rooms are 3 dimensional.... so did he mean a cubic room? A cubic room does not have golden ratios, in a cubic room width=depth=height. The dimensions for his particular room in his calculator thing is sure as shit neither squared or cubed. It just makes no sense what he's saying.

perpendicular @ 90⁰

@@QAT4969Rectilinear?

hm, interesting idea at first but I actually wouldn’t really recommend it since a lot of “low end” material like kicks, basslines, low synths etc. also have overtones in their overall sound design and timbre. You’d rarely hear a bass or a synth which are pure sine-waves. So with that in mind I don’t think it’s a good idea to “castrate” a big part of the timbre of those sounds sitting higher up in the spectrum, because that’s often what helps our ears establish the relationship between them in a mix. For example how well a bass and a kick work together. The fundamental notes wouldn’t be enough in my opinion. In my experience those notes sitting higher up than what we consider to be “bass” can play a huge role in determining what sits lower or higher, how is the attack and release of the transient shapes the balance of the bass impulse (which could be really easily messed up depending on the type of filter you use, btw), etc. The best way is to just learn to listen really carefully and try to pick those things apart. Of course, the solution to that is (whether we like it or not) loads and loads of practice. :)

Shoe box is my favorite term for this. Abbey Road studio 2 is my favorite shoe box. :)

I think he means a box-shaped room with right angles, but I can't be sure cause it makes no sense what he is saying. Rooms are 3 dimensional objects and squares are 2 dimensional, hence a room can neither be square or rectangular.

It would be interesting to experiment with, but I assume he's kept the height at 2.5m because that's around the height of most ceilings in most homes!

Lol. A square is a rectangle but a rectangle isn't necessarily a square. In any case, he's talking about 90°corners.

Rectangular cuboid actually :)

No, 'square' in this context means all angles at 90°.

@@shaftahoy it was a long time ago when I was at school but a square in any context means equilateral sides….that’s what makes it a square as opposed to a rectangle……or is that too complicated to teach these days…..

@@murraywebster1228 The word has many meanings and usages - what you describe is one of them. Another is "having right angles". When two lines or planes have an angle of 90° between them, they are said to be square with one another. Have a nice evening.

Using “square” in this way is very unusual, and in 50+ years I have never heard of a “square room” meaning “a room with wall that are all square with respect to adjacent walls”. That doesn’t mean it’s wrong. It does mean that using the word “rectangular” would get the point across more easily to more people, and that’s the whole point of communication.