Do you need room acoustics and sound treatment? Maybe. After youâre 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, Iâm gonna share more of a rough and dirty perspective. Iâm not talking about a big studio build out here. Yeah, consult an acoustician before you break ground.
But if youâre adapting your existing recording or mixing environment, Iâm 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, youâre gonna end up making some room changes and youâre still gonna have to tweak it. My two cents, unless youâre framing and dry walling, donât go nuts with a lot of really complicated science because youâre probably gonna end up adjusting your acoustics by ear when youâre done anyway.
