Doglamp wrote:Does filling up the whole back with padding have any negative effects? And if not, why is it that most studios don't cover a whole wall?
I'm no rocket scientist or professor in acoustic treatment, but I have read some, and I believe that:
Often you don't need every spot in the room to be "perfect", like only the listening position in a control room. The sound travels from your speaker, and hit certain spots that reflects the sound in another direction again, like your listening position. If you put the right treatment on those exact reflecting spots, you have a good listening position. You don't need good monitoring sound when you lie dead on the floor, unless you mix on the floor in that position... If you have a too dry/dead room, you would might add too much reverb on the tracks too.
The recording room or booth is different tho', and if they don't pad all the walls there I guess they want a little bit of acoustics in there. People are not used to perform in dead rooms, and it might be hard to perform right when their instruments act totally different from what they are used too.
DJ Hellfire wrote:Since his monitors are so close to the wall, I'd have to say that's why he put them there. When the monitors are that close to a wall, the bass get's really exaggerated. It can increase by up to around 6dB depending on how close they are.
But, thin titti-foam like that don't help too much when you want to stop bass-frequencies, they might just stop certain high frequencies.
