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So this is a crappy drawing of my room at the moment. The triangles are my monitors (On stands) and the red circles are where i thought of putting them.



Where do i place these monitors to get the best overall sound?

I really can't seem to figure this out... What would you do?

Best Regards,
Sourc3

selotape them to your head.

Roflrilla wrote:selotape them to your head.

Creative, yet useless

This is my signature series of Raver's Feng Shui

I don't have stands so I've creatively used orange juice cartons to have them at an angle so they point at my ears. Probably not a good idea but fuck it.

First: by only placing your monitors the right way you won't improve the whole image of you music a bit.

Second: so how accurate do you want your room to sound? If you want quality, then I suggest you do this:

As for monitor placement:

The best way to place your monitors is in the middle of you room, with the wall in front of you a few meters away (to reduce the amount of frequency's bouncing back at you from that front wall). This will help A LOT.
Also make sure the tweeters of your monitors are at ear height, also very important if you want to create a good sweetspot. You can do this by buying or building some wooden stands.
Finally make sure you have anti-vibration-shock-rubber-things to put underneath you monitors. Otherwise your whole desk will resonate and create other frequency's then the ones in your musical piece.

Now this was only the easy part. If you want to let your room sound like a proper mixing area, i highly recommend you to build a few absorbing panels and bass traps.
Especially bass traps are important. They absorb the bass in your room, you place these in the corners of your room. (to get the best results put them at least in all 4 corners)

Then You have to build like 4 absorbing panels to take care of those high/mid frequency's. Now as high frequency's tend to have a shorter range (unlike bass frequency's) it's already a huge improvement to place them on those spots behind you and in front of you, just to reduce the amount of highs and mids bouncing back from the walls into your ears.

Now you might thing this is too much and over-kill, but in fact room treatment is far underrated! Even a very minimal setup (a few basstraps and a few absorb panels make a difference like heaven and earth).

Also on gearslutz you'll find a lot more information and also guides on how to build these things yourself, very cheaply, very efficient and effective out of wood, fabric and rockwool.


If you want to do it good, take what i said into account and do some extra reading on acoustic room treatment.


EDIT: you can check this out yourself. Put on a tune, walk towards your corner and feel howmuch more bass you hear there. So much it's even muddy as fuck. Same applies for high frequency's. You may not notice it now, but if you hang up some treatment you'll notice the difference big big time.

When i hung my treatment it was as if I put on my lenses for the first time. I could see detail again!

Computer desk in the middle, monitors either side and the turntables against another wall? Just try and avoid having them in the corners or right next to the walls.

speakers should be placed roughly 38% from the front wall, defos not 50 as this will give u all sorts of problems. build some bass traps and put them at the first point of reflection and on the front wall behind the speakres to control mid and low frequencies but for upper mid and high frequencies build diffusors and put them on the back wall.
http://www.realtraps.com/art_room-setup.htm << have a look ethan knows his stuff

2manynoobs wrote:
When i hung my treatment it was as if I put on my lenses for the first time. I could see detail again!

thanks for all that, I knew monitor placement was important, but I didn't realise the foam traps would provide such a difference. I'm defintely going to make some stuff, rearrange and let yous know.

cheers.

frebentos wrote:

2manynoobs wrote:
When i hung my treatment it was as if I put on my lenses for the first time. I could see detail again!

thanks for all that, I knew monitor placement was important, but I didn't realise the foam traps would provide such a difference. I'm defintely going to make some stuff, rearrange and let yous know.

cheers.

nice one! pics when it's done