yeah sorry, but i cant say you're right.manray wrote:Well done. I'm not saying otherwise but most people in here can't dedicated a whole room to their studio and so have to live with a poor sounding room. So stressing about speaker placement is dumb, work around it and you can get decent results.Wil Blaze wrote:Think about what you just said mate...manray wrote:It's funny that people are going on about speaker placement when most home set ups are extremely poor acoustically anyway so that is the least of your problem.
It translates as "It's funny that people worry about their acoustics, cos they mostly have poor acoustics, so acoustics are the least of your problem"
Good speaker placement is KEY to tackling the poor acoustics of any room, and getting your speakers in the right spot is the cheapest thing you can do to improve the sound in your room (it's free to move your speakers innit) and you'd be a complete idiot to spend money on acoustic treatment without even getting your speaker placement right first!
Speaker placement is just one part. For example my studio is in one half of a large living room space. Solid oak floor all over, very sparse, echos like fuck and impossible to get sounding nice without sticking loads of foam up everywhere. So the least of my worries is where my speakers go because frankly the whole fucking room needs work.
Why should you make a problem by place your monitors badly and try to solve with other stuff instead of making a beginning of a good placement? I don't really understand ur point at searching other solutions. I prefer avoid problems instead of making them and solve them. Think about a better placement and using a analyser.... Ofcourse you have lots of verb and resonance in ur room but thats an other problem. Thats something you keep if you dont use traps/foam. I prefer a normal bass sound out of my speakers instead of +3 db more instead there is.... 2 things. Fucks up my mix and makes my neighbours more angry.
edit : no offence or something...
another thing about volume. You know volume grows exponential right ? so imagine when you're blasting ur volume up to like 90 db's at home with your subwoofer also in a corner blasting ur new dubstep hit. All you hear is a nice energetic song with buttloads of bass. Then the same night you go to a club where you've to spin and you drop in your own record. and i already see you boosting the bass eq knob.
just tips man.. no worrys.
another thing bout volume... EQ
I see lots of people asking why cutting instead of boosting and its quite simple to explain even i haven't seen lots of people who has a clear vision bout it.
It's more like this... When you're cutting a freq its quite easy to do for an EQ. See it as a piece of paper and you cutting the paper with a scissor. Quite easy task isnt it ?
Now when you boost freqs its like glueing a bit piece of paper on the normal piece you already have. It's like much more work.
Instead of boosting your bass freqs, cut your the freqs of your other samples/instruments.....
Ofcourse its not a crime too boost but i can tell you that your mix sounds much more open and transparant. You'll hear you can put much more things inyour arrangement without noticing things are fighting with eachother
