Acoustic treatment on the other hand aims only to control sound reflections within the room to make better sounding recordings.
Layout small room acoustic treatment.
Setting up a two channel listening room involves a list of acoustic design do s and don ts that must be followed and these are the same dos and don ts the professionals go by when they set up there monitoring or control rooms.
Example room setups critical listening mixing rooms below are three example rooms we ll be looking at.
Here at acoustic frontiers we use these five acoustic design techniques to create amazing bass.
Five steps to amazing bass.
To see how i chose the listening position and speaker placement check out our room and speaker layout guide.
The subject of acoustics is regularly discussed in sos but plenty of readers still ask for the subject to be covered from a much more basic starting point.
Room acoustic design insights.
A lightly treated 2 channel mixing room with basic absorption and diffusion typical in a project or home recording studio.
Designing a two channel set up.
Both of these are valuable but neither does the job of the other.
Add in the multitude of room shapes sizes wall construction methods and surfaces found in home studios and it becomes impossible to provide a one size fits all guide to acoustic treatment.