I love taking a room with acoustical treatments and determining problems with what was done. Outstanding and great learning experience. Lots of people just put stuff in a room making it look nice. Although lots of times treated room is displayed are purely listening rooms and most people have them in rooms with all kinds of other furniture. This is an area that's deserving a more focus when you have lots of furniture in the room.😊
The room does not see pretty. The room only sees energy. The energy comes in two forms: pressure and reflections. Lower frequency pressure that does not fit into the room dimensions and middle and high frequency reflections from the walls, floor, and ceiling. The goal is to minimize the unwanted pressure issues (modes) and lower the reverb times created by reflections.
People confuse panel function and placement. Panels can be made to manage all frequency bands. You can have low, middle, and high frequency management panels.They can be either absorption or diffusion You must match the panel type to the frequency, amplitude, and location of your specific room issues. This is where the misunderstanding comes into play. People buy products that do not absorb enough energy at the frequencies of their room issues. Its an improvement over nothing but they still have part of the issue. Its best to fix it once and bedone with it. 100% fixed 100 % right.
example #1...there is zero indication of ceiling treatment or NOT. There could be plenty of Sabins of absorption at 125Hz to counter the mass of the CMU, etc....likely not...but those two images are NOT the whole story and you should speak to that as well.
I just watched an "audiophile" UA-cam channel which had very expensive TAD speakers and what looked to be a fairly expensive Turntable rig playing DSOTM but they had absolutely no room treatment, not even a rug just a bare hard floor and the audio sounded pretty ordinary. I went to the comments and couldn't believe how many we're saying it sounded great, I commented that I was being brutally honest and said it sounds pretty average and got a reply from the channel saying he was being brutally honest and said he and many others disagreed. I guess some people are happy to pay outrageous prices for gear only to ruin the sound by plonking it in a bad room, I seriously think that a lot of people don't actually know what good sound sounds like
It is called idol worship. They idolize the gear instead of the music. It would be much better to have the gear disappear and just focus on the music. We believe that the room accounts for 60% of what you hear. More attention needs to be paid to the room sound not the gear sound.
@@dashcammer4322 Hi resolution sources are a benefit. However, you can obtain 80 - 90% room resolutions with any full range source. Rememeber the room only sees energy.
People dont know or understand high resolution rooms. If they thought of their room with the same deligence as they do gear, they could buy cheaper gear, place it in a properly treated room, and it would sound like a system three times the price. One client told me that after he treated his room, it sounded like he got a new amp, speakers, cables, and DAC times 10. Most of our clients that treat their rooms, keep their existing gear. They state that all the original resons they bought thye gear came back after treatment.
Hi! I'm studing voiceover. Could you please to talk about the studio for it? Sorry, I don't speak English well, but I can translate and understand if you say. Thank you.
In the photo of the second room, those speakers (Eggleston) are facing backwards towards the rear wall and those are actually quite large speakers and should be main speakers.
Most VO and Podcasts I see working in an open room face their desks toward a wall so they are speaking a with a few feet between them and the wall. Would it be better to face the opposite direction with 10-15' of space to the far wall?
Very useful. It's good to learn from your own mistakes, but it's a lot less painful and much cheaper to learn from other people's mistakes.
Life is a balance between pain and pleasure, just like in acoustics. Acoustics is a balance between pressure and reflections.
@@AcousticFieldsAnother great analogy from the master!
I love taking a room with acoustical treatments and determining problems with what was done. Outstanding and great learning experience. Lots of people just put stuff in a room making it look nice. Although lots of times treated room is displayed are purely listening rooms and most people have them in rooms with all kinds of other furniture. This is an area that's deserving a more focus when you have lots of furniture in the room.😊
The room does not see pretty. The room only sees energy. The energy comes in two forms: pressure and reflections. Lower frequency pressure that does not fit into the room dimensions and middle and high frequency reflections from the walls, floor, and ceiling. The goal is to minimize the unwanted pressure issues (modes) and lower the reverb times created by reflections.
Couple of good tips thanks!
People confuse panel function and placement. Panels can be made to manage all frequency bands. You can have low, middle, and high frequency management panels.They can be either absorption or diffusion You must match the panel type to the frequency, amplitude, and location of your specific room issues. This is where the misunderstanding comes into play. People buy products that do not absorb enough energy at the frequencies of their room issues. Its an improvement over nothing but they still have part of the issue. Its best to fix it once and bedone with it. 100% fixed 100 % right.
@@AcousticFields makes so much sense
example #1...there is zero indication of ceiling treatment or NOT. There could be plenty of Sabins of absorption at 125Hz to counter the mass of the CMU, etc....likely not...but those two images are NOT the whole story and you should speak to that as well.
These are photos submitted through our room analysis link. You get what we get.
thanks for the tip about height , it will benefit me, as I had never even considered anything beyond convenience when placing equipment.
Glad it was helpful!
I just watched an "audiophile" UA-cam channel which had very expensive TAD speakers and what looked to be a fairly expensive Turntable rig playing DSOTM but they had absolutely no room treatment, not even a rug just a bare hard floor and the audio sounded pretty ordinary.
I went to the comments and couldn't believe how many we're saying it sounded great, I commented that I was being brutally honest and said it sounds pretty average and got a reply from the channel saying he was being brutally honest and said he and many others disagreed.
I guess some people are happy to pay outrageous prices for gear only to ruin the sound by plonking it in a bad room, I seriously think that a lot of people don't actually know what good sound sounds like
It is called idol worship. They idolize the gear instead of the music. It would be much better to have the gear disappear and just focus on the music. We believe that the room accounts for 60% of what you hear. More attention needs to be paid to the room sound not the gear sound.
And really, how well can anyone hear what a system in a listening room sounds like via a youtube video? It'd be like watching an 8k video in 720p.
@@dashcammer4322 Hi resolution sources are a benefit. However, you can obtain 80 - 90% room resolutions with any full range source. Rememeber the room only sees energy.
People dont know or understand high resolution rooms. If they thought of their room with the same deligence as they do gear, they could buy cheaper gear, place it in a properly treated room, and it would sound like a system three times the price. One client told me that after he treated his room, it sounded like he got a new amp, speakers, cables, and DAC times 10. Most of our clients that treat their rooms, keep their existing gear. They state that all the original resons they bought thye gear came back after treatment.
Hi!
I'm studing voiceover. Could you please to talk about the studio for it? Sorry, I don't speak English well, but I can translate and understand if you say. Thank you.
For male voice use 12 - 14' distances.
In the photo of the second room, those speakers (Eggleston) are facing backwards towards the rear wall and those are actually quite large speakers and should be main speakers.
The room has much larger issues than speaker positioning.
@@AcousticFields Yeah, I know, it was just something that was glaringly obvious.
Image #3...could be if surfaces are drywall...not if CMU....please share the entire story
These photos are from our room analysis section of our web site. You receive what we receive.
Most VO and Podcasts I see working in an open room face their desks toward a wall so they are speaking a with a few feet between them and the wall. Would it be better to face the opposite direction with 10-15' of space to the far wall?
Yes, However, to achieve the best quality sound, you need to lower reverb times in any room.
@@AcousticFieldslower the reverb time to what time approxx?
Well said! 🎉❤😊
Than you.