Do you need room acoustics and sound treatment? Maybe. After you’re done measuring your space, taking your crazy room measurements, booking up on acoustics, taking more measurements, and then installing all your treatment, you can still expect to spend a good amount of time tweaking that stuff to get it sounded the way you want.
So at the risk of being the measure once cut twice guy, I’m gonna share more of a rough and dirty perspective. I’m not talking about a big studio build out here. Yeah, consult an acoustician before you break ground.
But if you’re adapting your existing recording or mixing environment, I’m an advocate of the approach by which you just serve a here environment and you try and make some informed choices based on concepts like room nodes, diffusion, diffraction, bass buildup in corners. This stuff is all easily understandable in the general sense without getting too granular. We can teach you that stuff.
If you make some smart choices, you’re gonna end up making some room changes and you’re still gonna have to tweak it. My two cents, unless you’re framing and dry walling, don’t go nuts with a lot of really complicated science because you’re probably gonna end up adjusting your acoustics by ear when you’re done anyway.
