How big is your room

The guy's hawking an E-Book to fix unfixable 6 foot rooms. You'll wind up on a mailing list forever. He'll collect the ad revenue. It's all about acquiring the largest possible email database. That way he can enjoy revenue from the adspace associated. Very common KZfaq business model.

@@oinkooink Honestly, I haven't been all that thrilled with the latest sponsored videos.... directly goes against what I said in this comment.

@@davidkulmaczewski4911 He's a shill

Average primary school school classroom here in the UK anyway is at least double or three times the size of most people's living rooms in the UK. And UK secondary school the classrooms are even bigger. I remember my chemistry classroom was massive.

@@C--A Still not helpful though. My wife watches Escape to the Country most afternoons and even the country houses have tiny living rooms compared to the average Australian living room (we usually say lounge room), even when compared to Australian government housing lounge rooms. It's very hard to talk about what's average on an international platform.

“At the absolute limit, no dimension should be smaller than around 1.80m”

@@mevynofficial1683 Yes, but then that just adds to the confusion, as no classroom nor living room is that remotely that small.

​@mevynofficial1683 this is the border for a too small room, and not between small and not small

You have to pay for his course to get those plans.

Yeah, there is no room too small to sound good... if you are using headphones.

That’s huge for a vocal booth for VoiceOver

@@asianguy6174 Yeah, well it wasn't a vocal booth. It was a fully flared studio with several vintage keyboards, e-drums, guitars and stuff. I was aiming to have an acoustically reliable environment for mixing. A flat frequency response is not that critical in a vocal booth, it mostly needs to be properly dampened.

When he said that,, I was so discouraged almost heart broken.. I think I will use my closet.

@@robertmedina3982 You may be able to get around the need to worry about the room you're mixing in by investing in a good pair of openback headphones, a virtual mix room plugin like Waves NX, and Sonarworks Sound ID Reference to flatten the frequency response of your headphones. It took some effort and careful research but I believe I have gotten as close as possible to removing considerations for the acoustic space from the equation entirely.

@@CYB3RC0RP that sounds like sound advice and is appreciated. Thanks again.

@@robertmedina3982 I hope it helps! If you need any elaboration I'd be happy to help the best I can.

@@CYB3RC0RP thanks.

What’s more important The room space and materials or the actual sound your system is emitting? If you like the sound of your music system that should be what you are aiming for..

for speakers radiate bass energy in all directions, bass energy will be the highest in all front corners

A cube is a terrible room mode magnet...all the modes occur at about 60hz. Move?

@@carlitomelon4610 no, I don’t think he needs to move. Start by making the room a-symmetrical, by making the back wall not straight, or one of the side walls. Using a-symmetrical placement of furniture (preferably absorbing like a couch or reflective) might also help.

Rear firing ports cause allot more problems in my experience . I think you would need more treatment for rear firing ports atleast more bass traps.

the subwoofer size doesn't matter....bigger capable subwoofer WILL play lower ..smaller sub won't go as low but will still be able to fill in the room..small room overall = lots of room gain ..think of it like this..why do people even put an 18 inch in a car ?? thats many times smaller than ANY room ...yet they still do it and it STILL works

Late reply but order is, find the best listening position using the bass hunter technique, then use the phantom speaker technique to place monitors, then add treatment.

In a vocal booth the performer would usually be wearing headphones and the absorption panels only need to deal with the range of the human voice not the low bass which comes from studio monitors. Frequencies in the range of the human voice are much easier to absorb with thinner material.

@@chrx_chrx please be right. I’m loosing sleep on weather to use my small 3 feet and 5 inches by 10 feet with a 9 foot ceiling. All my cork board and foam is waiting in the corner of my room collecting dust. I have equipment in brown boxes. Will be using monitor headphones.

@@robertmedina3982 Well my comment related to vocal booths... what are you trying to achieve? record vocals or instruments? or mix/produce? The video above if I remember rightly is focused on mixing i.e. a control room setup.

@@chrx_chrx podcast and voice overs only.

@@robertmedina3982 Ok so you don't really need to worry about serious acoustic treatment especially if you are just planning on working on headphones. Just set up some thin foam panels around the area where your microphone is going to be and that will be totally fine. You're just trying to remove the sound of the room reverb from getting in the microphone (a little bit getting through is fine). Just experiment until your voice recordings sound clear. I have a few friends who do voice over work and have set up microphones in their wardrobes so the clothes absorb the reflections. Wouldn't work for music with lots of bass but for voice it works great.

If they can be thick enough and possibly with a decent air gap, they will make a difference.

Sadly, it only sounds "good" and "full" when the sound is accurate enough. I built a tons of rooms from tiny ass room to concert hall. Only smooth response rooms sound good. Forget your idea please.

@@patrolduty8715 isnt that slightly subjective, ive been in clubs where the sound system clearly wasn’t designed by Richard Long, and yet it sounded great…which could be attributed to a number of different things outside of ‘accuracy’.

@@Nosh_Feratu Man, if you think it sounds great with just an untreated room. It will sound muhc much more great with a high-end treated room. You just dont know what you have lost.

Many of my clients dont even realized their own sound system when put it in the SAME room after we treated. And they just blame them self for not doing it sooner. Before treatment, they already feel quite good with their high-end system (some of them cost more than a million dollars).

@@patrolduty8715 I think the problem is that we’re Replying to a question I asked over 2 years ago, ive moved house and spent several thousand on GIK Acoustics since then. Also, over the past 35 years ive been to Twilo, M.O.S in London, and heard numerous other amazing systems, but I’ve also heard systems at shitty little clubs which sounded far better than they should, that was my point in my last reply. A good system and proper treatment is ALWAYS going to sound better, I think we can all agree on that.

Use units doug.

@@Karim-ik5ij I'm not saying that I shouldn't have had to use units, but you really think I'd be asking if a 3,248 sq. ft room is small?

@@DouglasComical Lmao Touche :)

He is talking about a control (mixing room), you could record in that room you mentioned, you just need to make the room sound nice and this does not necessarily mean an acoustically transparent room.

No way blankets will absorb any low end. If you end up just absorbing high frequencies, you will probably make the sound less balanced than having no absorption at all.

@@kjmusic2541 Thanks for the info

Depending on how tall the room is, you could look at bass trapping all the room's top corners, and ceilings very significantly (top third). Then at least you won't loose to much usable space to that, especially when sitting. And then, the mid to lower corners, do as much as you can; given the size. If you can trap most corners floor to ceiling, with as deep a pyramid as you can get away with, that's worth doing with DiY mineral wool corner traps. Also, treat the first reflection points, including being aware of equipment that's on your desk between you and your speakers. A smaller narrower desk, but with speakers on tall heavy speaker stands, with tweeters directly at ear level is better than those big studio desks with shelves for speakers / monitors. Treat the reflection points on the ceiling , desk area (big mixing desks are a nightmare), behind your seating position with more thorough treatment. At least 4" panels, I think - but they don't have to cover huge areas, if placed accurately at the exact 1st reflection point where the tweeter line hits the walls above, to the side, below on desk, and behind your ears on back wall. It can be better to mount a display larger monitor or even a use a large TV on the wall BEHIND the speakers, so there's no reflection off the back / sides of a computer monitor in front of them. I also place as much bass trapping as I can, under the desk, in spaces I don't use anyway. I experimented with adding a spare mattress at the back wall in the room, pinned in by a small 2 seater couch, that helped too, just make sure it can't fall over and domino your mic into your computer monitor then knock down your speaker/speaker stands :) If it's your home, you can get double use of studio as the storage place for all your heavy winter duvets, parka jackets, wool jumpers on open shelves. All your heavy old books, magazines randomly arranged on open shelves can function for diffusion too.

Isn't a flimsy door sort of a bass trap?

Use headphone

It depends, you can record in different parts of a room if you like what it does to the sound. Instrument and mic position is a creative choice, you may not want to most neutral position. Move the mic up and down the neck of a guitar and the sound changes dramatically. One position will sound like what you hear when you play, but that may not be as exciting sounding as another position etc.

Surely a good, well dialled-in subwoofer should help depending, of course, on the size/power of your main speakers.

Prior to treatment

@@samindj What do you think of PET panels as opposed to Mineral wool?

size matters...

Roomeqwizard it's freeware

@@xaz7088 thanks ,iv got a bit of a nightmare room [in the loft ]. as its about 3.5meters square but only 1.6 meters high in the middle then tapers down to 90 cm , so no standing room hahahah , but its the only place I can make some noise I'm no 100 percent about the sound ill always get problems , nice video

@@yamansitar6153 small room always have some types of problems but could be resolved with a bit of thinkering. What do you like to do there? Recording, mixing or both? Continue follow this channel, is great! Anyway check out caruso isobond, they are cheap panels and work great if you learn how to place them. Best regards

@@xaz7088 hi , mostly mixing , and a bit of recording ,I use the reference 4 which helps I think. ,, sometime when I listen back a lot of the tracks are bass heavy.