You’ll want to make sure that your speakers:įorm an equilateral triangle with your head, and Listening position is 33% from the front wallĪnother thing you can do to instantly improve your listening environment is to make sure your speakers are positioned correctly. However, you don’t actually want your desk right up against the wall. If your room is rectangular, you’ll want your desk to be placed in front of one of the shorter walls. You can see what I mean in the image above. You are positioned length wise, in the middle of the side walls
Just making sure you are in the right location in your room can go a long way toward improving the sound of your room.
WAVES NX MADE MY MIXES WORSE HOW TO
There are some things you can do in your own, less-than-professional studio to create high quality mixes.īy the way, if you want to learn how to record professional vocals in an untreated room, then check out my article here. So you absolutely don’t need pro-treated tuned room to get high quality mixes. Sound will interact with everything in the room, from the walls to the floor and even people. It’s as perfect as you can get, and yet, it’s still not perfect. Even the ceiling is angled, which means there are no standing waves, and no frequencies getting cancelled out.Įvery surface is soft to absorb sound, and the room has a large accordion-style bass trap. The room doesn’t have any walls or surfaces that are parallel to each other. It’s impossible.Īt the pro commercial recording studio I trained at, even that room was not perfect, and required a 3rd octave EQ in order to tune and calibrate the room. You don’t need a perfectly treated room to create high quality mixes.
My room is not perfectly tuned and treated, and that’s okay. Can You Get A Quality Mix In An Untreated Room?
No worries, because that shouldn’t stop you from pumping out great mixes.Įvery mix engineer, no matter the environment, must factor in the room. Me back in 2012 in my basement “studio” in Dublin, Ohio.Īre you mixing in a room with little to no acoustic treatment and it just sounds bad?
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