Need help with solving my Room problem

[bharathramr]

Hi
This is my first post here. I have moved to a new rented room which I majorly use for my production and mixing work. I could easily sense that there are multiple issues with the room and want to take expert opinion here before I go ahead and do anything. I did the measurement using REW wizard and I am attaching the .mdat file here (in the zip file). I am not sure how to correct some of the critical problems as you can see in the graphs. Below are the details of the room and few things that I did in the room

Dimensions (in inches):
181.5 - Length
108.5 - Width
112.5 - Height

Treatment:
1) Two corners in my room currently has cupboards and as in the attached pic, because of which I could not keep any bass traps on the corners. So I stuffed some Rockwool SNS 370 (cut into triangles (1.414 * 1.414 * 2 ft) in both the cup board corners as in the pic (Cupboard fills.jpg)
2) The other two corners have doors because of which I could not treat them with bass traps from floor to ceiling. So I have just kept the same rockwool triangles on just the top corners above the doors (Listening position and front wall.jpg)

Listening position:
I sit facing the larger wall (181.5 inches) as shown in picture ((Listening position and front wall.jpg).

Rear wall:
The rear wall is completely free as of now (Rear wall.jpg)

Note : All the pics are in the zip file.

Need help in terms of suggesting what can i do more in terms of acoustic treatment to atleast solve the critical ones related to frequencies till 200 hz..

Bharath

 

[ppataki]

Hi
This is my first post here. I have moved to a new rented room which I majorly use for my production and mixing work. I could easily sense that there are multiple issues with the room and want to take expert opinion here before I go ahead and do anything. I did the measurement using REW wizard and I am attaching the .mdat file here (in the zip file). I am not sure how to correct some of the critical problems as you can see in the graphs. Below are the details of the room and few things that I did in the room

Dimensions (in inches):
181.5 - Length
108.5 - Width
112.5 - Height

Treatment:
1) Two corners in my room currently has cupboards and as in the attached pic, because of which I could not keep any bass traps on the corners. So I stuffed some Rockwool SNS 370 (cut into triangles (1.414 * 1.414 * 2 ft) in both the cup board corners as in the pic (Cupboard fills.jpg)
2) The other two corners have doors because of which I could not treat them with bass traps from floor to ceiling. So I have just kept the same rockwool triangles on just the top corners above the doors (Listening position and front wall.jpg)

Listening position:
I sit facing the larger wall (181.5 inches) as shown in picture ((Listening position and front wall.jpg).

Rear wall:
The rear wall is completely free as of now (Rear wall.jpg)

Note : All the pics are in the zip file.

Need help in terms of suggesting what can i do more in terms of acoustic treatment to atleast solve the critical ones related to frequencies till 200 hz..

Bharath

I personally would not add any more physical room correction if your goal is to fix the 0-200Hz region

I would rather focus on applying some digital room correction into your system. A quick EQ-ing exercise shows that your bass is already pretty good, when optimized; see the before/after below:

I think this shall be sufficient - but if you are still unhappy then integrating one or more subwoofers would further ameliorate the situation (actually that is the best you can do to fix the low-end instead of using any physical acoustic treatments)

 

[bharathramr]

Thanks. I tried eqing stuff using some popular room correction softwares too, but what I felt was they were just adding digital artifacts to the sound and hence stopped using them. My predominant problem are 2 things.. 1) In my listening position I feel I have lost at lot of thump area ( 80 - 100 hz) and too much of boxiness around 117 hz and 135 hz sound..

 

[A Surfer]

How did you determine there were audible digital artifacts?

 

[staticV3]

I tried eqing stuff using some popular room correction softwares too, but what I felt was they were just adding digital artifacts to the sound

Then you weren't doing it right.

As long as you use an appropriate preamp to avoid clipping, EQ will not distort or artifact the sound.

 

[bharathramr]

How did you determine there were audible digital artifacts?

The correction software did agressive correction especially on the highs and there were clear digital-ish sound beyond 8-10 khz region..

 

[bharathramr]

Then you weren't doing it right.

As long as you use an appropriate preamp to avoid clipping, EQ will not distort or artifact the sound.
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I do everything in the box... so i dont have physical preamps also any suggestions of good smooth eq correction..

 

[staticV3]

I do everything in the box... so i dont have physical preamps also any suggestions of good smooth eq correction..

Sorry, let me clarify:

As long as you (or your EQ software) apply an appropriate preamp value inside your EQ software which makes sure that the overall gain never exceeds +0dB, digital artifacting will not occur.

An external preamp is something else entirely and useless in this case.