Quote Originally Posted by dirty_bass View Post
simple solution, especially if you live in rented property, buy the new jbl room correction monitors.
Stunning, and far better than faffing about with foam, unless you are an accoustic technician.
There is some great new room correction software out now, made by M-Audio I think??
I`ll find the link, but it works on the same principle as the JBLs, but is a lot cheaper.
Basically it analyses your room, and applies filters prior to your sound card output to correct for standing waves etc.

Other than that, bass traps in the corners (verticle and horizontal, anti-scatter/reflection tiles, to either side of the listening spot, and if the wall behind is close, just behind as well.
Possibly some deflectors directly above the monitoring position as well, to essentially stop any symmetrical modes being present.

All this can set you back a fair wack, more than 250.

I think the new room mode correction software costs about 250 AND it moves wherever your studio moves.

I plumped for the monitors, and man, I`m so happy I nearly cry every time I switch them on.
My mastering has improved so much since I got em
Hmmmm

I read up lots on the software. There's free stuff available - FIR filters that you can input into EQ and modelling programs that will even run as VSTs. The free stuff is very unfriendly to install and set up though if you don't know linux. And you need a measurement microphone to calibrate the impulse response.

I read a fairly good thing on SOS about the principles behind it not really making sense. That you can't correct a room, and applying an EQ curve and filter over the output is just adding another layer of wrong over the original perception of wrong. Plus the room is only 'corrected' at the exact point the measurement is taken. Move your head out of this exact point and your listening to something else entirely.

The general gist I got was the you can compensate a little to improve things, but you can never correct a room using filters and the only way to properly do it is to acounstically treat the room.

All a bit out of my depth, but made intersting reading. Was one of the audio geeks at SOS writing, will see if I can dig it out.