in the second link its pretty easy to see the type of foam we have used.

make sure you post some pics when you make your room mods tomer...

cheers

blay

That egg crate style foam is actually pretty horrible......and using it on every wall covering everything is probably overkill.

I had an acoustician come round the other day, and he gave me some really cool tips and ideas.

I have a few meters of egg-crate foam lying around and the first thing he said was not to use it. Instead, he said I should make use of the Tontine that I have, and make some panels around 60cm x 120cm, to be placed wherever the first reflections hit the walls. you can do this by grabbing a friend, sitting at your mix position, and asking him to move around the walls with a mirror, and when you can see your tweeters in the reflection, this is the spot.

He also told me I should move my mix position so that Im facing the window instead of the brick wall, as the bass will flow through the window much easier. Also, being at the window would move me away from the corners of the room where bass energy builds up.

I have just finished the last coat of paint in my room, and now almost ready to start building the tontine panels, which I think I will mount in frames, and then covered with a porous, thin material. Also looking to put curtains against thee window, probably a thick velvet material.

Wow.....exciting!

As far as the Tannoys go.....I have a pair of reveal actives....they are OK, but I think at some point I will replace them with something more like the BM6a's....wow! They are hot....

not overkill at all jase - it depends on your situation.

our room has polished wooden floors, the roof is angled, and basically before we added the foam the room was absolutely unusable.

btw its not covering every wall - just the half of the room where the gear is - and even then it is only a strip at speaker height.

the mirror trick is great - just dont forget your roof.

cheers

blay

Well, jasedee's right in that you can definitely overdo foam, be it the eggshell variety, or the better Auralex stuff. What you're looking for is generally between 40-60% coverage, or else you'll just be making an unnaturally dull monitoring environment, and your mixes will most assuredly be too bright. Once again, we're talking monitoring/control room uses, not recording. My iso room has 100% Auralex coverage on the walls/ceiling, and there is no possible way to do any kind of critical listening in that environment, and for a lot of sources (anything with a room/distant/ambient mic) we have to move to a different room.

Taming mid and high freq's is a piece of cake, I could train my 6 year old nephew how to treat a room in a day; the killers are nulls and peaks in your bass response. Effective bass trapping is tricky to pin point, difficult to construct and install, and much more expensive than other treatments; and unfortunately, it's far and away the most important to nailing a mix.

Just another thing to point out,room structure should always be considered,and usualy its very induvidual dou to wall matirial and room size.
If you want to freq analize your room for reverbartion time and unwanted freq peaks there are spacial softwares for lowcost
(I belive you can download a demo of the software and use a 20$ radio shack mic that will work with the testing) which do that,after recieving the outputs you will know exacly what are the sonic issues you are facing.
Remember that evenly drying your room is only first stage of treament and there are few more issues.

Final thing,
Treating your room can be done without the help of a proffesional and i belive it doesnt not have to cost like a virus synth,interent is your friend :wink:

Don't underestimate the bottom end on those Dynaudios.

And don't believe most of what you read on the net about accoustic treatments. There are very few people in the whole world that are truly expert at this field.

have you used the bm5's gopal?

cheers

blay

Very briefly used them in one session. Liked them alot, thought they were very 'boring' to listen to which is a good thing IMO. Definately not fatiquing like my friends KRK V8s. I get brain strain with those things in no time. Mind you, they sounded a whole lot better when we ran them off my MOTU card instead of his shitty m-audio.

I like the Dynaudio stuff, its just not cheap though damnit. (Its off to the Behringer shop for me *shudder*)

yeah I dont rate the krks.
but whatever you do gopal dont buy behringer.
spend a couple hundred more and get yourself some tapco s8s. best value for money IMO.

you can get bm5s from jrrshop.com for $1000USD with free international shipping. seriously considering this option ATM.

cheers

blay

Heh, I wasn't actually serious about buying the Behringers :lol:

In saying that though, a guy I know who runs the music tech department at the local university told me that the new Behringers are pretty much an exact copy of last year's Genelecs, and that they are alot better than you would expect.

The other monitors I like are the Events.