I analized the studio and found a hung dip at 110hz. I have 9 panels in the room including a QRD wood diffuser on the door and a cloud above the mix position. Thinking I may need some bass traps and is it possible since the room is only 8x8, the 110hz is acutally cancelling itself out since there are no bass traps?
Maybe the pro's will chime in but honestly in that size of a room,you're not going to tame it. Learn the way it sounds,compensate and check your mixes somewhere else.
Originally posted by Reno: I analized the studio and found a hung dip at 110hz. I have 9 panels in the room including a QRD wood diffuser on the door and a cloud above the mix position. Thinking I may need some bass traps and is it possible since the room is only 8x8, the 110hz is acutally cancelling itself out since there are no bass traps?
Sorry, I know I'm coming way late to the party on this one, but if the diffuser is on the back wall that could be part of your problem. Some of your deepest nulls and highest peaks will come off the back wall; it's an absolute *must* to treat it along with the corners in the room.
Secondly, the room is too small for diffusion to do you any good. If you're in an 8x8x8 room pretty much every inch of available wall space needs to be taken up with bass trapping to make it usable.
Good point..I went ahead and made some bass traps for the corners and rearranged some panels and it did help out some dips but Im going to go ahead and take out the diffuser and analize the room again. For some reason I thought a diffuser would help out in a smaller room to help it move the sound more and get a bigger sound. Oh well..trial and error. Thanks.
It's a common mistake. The rule of thumb for diffusion is that you need three times the the distance of the lowest effective wave length in order for the diffusion to be even and effective. So, if the lowest effective diffusion frequency is 500Hz (about a 2' wavelength), you'd need a minimum of 6' from the listening position to the diffuser.
