Whats size monitors and recommendations?
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Could you get the studio desk from thomman. You could have them sitting on the top and you get a pull out leaf also. Really handy.
Neumann KH80 and some panels, at least 10cm deep on the back wall facing the desk, perhaps a 5cm one underneath the wall hung guitar.
No need to use depth to treat behind the monitors, maybe a small bit above them to cut down on reflections even more.
No need to use depth to treat behind the monitors, maybe a small bit above them to cut down on reflections even more.
Stereo imaging will be nigh impossible with guitars on your right and a window on your left; they will not reflect sound from your monitors equally.
I would not waste money changing your monitors. Deal with the room first - or find a more suitable room or position within that room.
I would not waste money changing your monitors. Deal with the room first - or find a more suitable room or position within that room.
I use Adam A3x monitors for my tiny desk space. They also make for pretty good Spotify listening when I’m working.
In my experience the human brain corrects alot, you can get by fine with these mismatches of positioning in applications for recording and mixing basic stuff at home.Whistler said:Stereo imaging will be nigh impossible with guitars on your right and a window on your left; they will not reflect sound from your monitors equally.
I would not waste money changing your monitors. Deal with the room first - or find a more suitable room or position within that room.
And the monitors absolutely make a difference if that's what you can actually change, and monitoring at low levels works quite well if you're not trying to get perfect polished low end.
Thanks - so you think the back wall facing speakers/desk would be the place to start reducing the boominess I experience in my desk area? I thought with bass traps it was important to cover the corners, so I was going to put bass trap panels across each of those corners behind my desk, top to bottom, (as well as behind the monitor, but if that doesn't need a thick trap all well and good),Winny_Pooh said:Neumann KH80 and some panels, at least 10cm deep on the back wall facing the desk, perhaps a 5cm one underneath the wall hung guitar.
No need to use depth to treat behind the monitors, maybe a small bit above them to cut down on reflections even more.
Bass is weird. Low frequencies are unidirectional unfortunately but if you can place the speakers right on the wall you can negate some of that bouncing back and foward off a solid wall toward you again.
What is more of an issue in small rooms is when bass (low long waves take a few feet to develop) hit a solid back wall and bounce back toward you and cancel out approaching waves, causing weird varying frequency dependent cancellation at different distances from the listening position. So I'd recommend banging bass traps behind you to start with and thin side panels for early high reflections.
On the window a wooden slat blind could be a decent diffuser.
What is more of an issue in small rooms is when bass (low long waves take a few feet to develop) hit a solid back wall and bounce back toward you and cancel out approaching waves, causing weird varying frequency dependent cancellation at different distances from the listening position. So I'd recommend banging bass traps behind you to start with and thin side panels for early high reflections.
On the window a wooden slat blind could be a decent diffuser.
So.. my Tannoy Reveal monitors are already too big for this space and my desk (140 x 60com) I think(?), and whilst they are angled their nearest edge to the rear wall is just 3cm away, not great with rear ported monitors in this confined space. I am about to install a 10cm Rockwool bass trap panel on the wall behind my PC monitor & speakers so will have even less space, even if I pull the desk away from the wall.