twelvepoint wrote: Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:17 pm

TylerDeadPine wrote: Thu Mar 07, 2024 6:37 pm

Nate Dort wrote: Thu Mar 07, 2024 5:28 pm Maybe you should wait until Rick Wakeman moves out before you do anything.

haha! vicious

Haha

Is that a gong bass drum I spy in the back-40?

It sure is! Thing sounds amazing! it's an original 80s one with the rolling rack.

MoreSpaceEcho wrote: Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:43 am Bass builds up in corners, so the closer to the ceiling you get, the bassier the response will be, It'll be even bassier if you have them near the wall corners.

If it were me, I'd put them on a shelf that's around ear height when you're standing, right on either side of the chimney.

Believe it or not, Snell (and Audio Note, that still make the K) both recommend corner placement with the Ks... They are a sealed enclosure FWIW.

Dr Tony Balls wrote: Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:47 am

Nate Dort wrote: Thu Mar 07, 2024 5:28 pm Maybe you should wait until Rick Wakeman moves out before you do anything.

LOLLLL.

Teacher's Pet wrote: Thu Mar 07, 2024 6:14 pm over the V4 Monkeyshines Fireplace.

That's a Jupiter. B-22X? Or B-42X? Dont remember but ive worked on it.

B-22X. Yes you did! I love this amp!

mdc wrote: Fri Mar 08, 2024 5:59 am My eye immediately went to the gocco box.

I actually just acquired that. I'm buying up a bunch of them as I'm planning a project... I still have two others from my teenage years.. Gocco is so fun!

Teacher's Pet wrote: Thu Mar 07, 2024 6:14 pm

TylerDeadPine wrote:I'm just not getting tired of pictures of this room

Fuck yeah, I bet those monitors are gonna sound fine if I'm staring at the sci-fi Wizardscape over the V4 Monkeyshines Fireplace.

Sorry, not helpful, but sheesh I really cannot wait until this Death Star is fully operational.

Welcome back!

I know this room isn't in what's typically a seismically active zone, but, as a Californian, seeing all that lovely equipment next to a brick wall makes me anxious.

as far as placement goes, up against the wall on shelves is fine as long as it isn't for critical listening decision making stuff and just to listen to sounds. Up against a wall can be problematic depending on speaker port design. and if they are near fields keeping your ears in the right sweet spot to hear the high end balance correctly is a thing, so you wouldn't want them up too high unless they can be tilted down. By design near field studio monitors are made to be fairly directional in the mids/highs usually. You could consider something like this

https://www.sweetwater.com/c1414--Spkr_ ... lsrc=aw.ds

To help aim them properly.

Also this forum needs a "Let us see your home studio" Thread badly.

Kniferide wrote: Fri Mar 08, 2024 5:24 pm as far as placement goes, up against the wall on shelves is fine as long as it isn't for critical listening decision making stuff and just to listen to sounds. Up against a wall can be problematic depending on speaker port design. and if they are near fields keeping your ears in the right sweet spot to hear the high end balance correctly is a thing, so you wouldn't want them up too high unless they can be tilted down. By design near field studio monitors are made to be fairly directional in the mids/highs usually. You could consider something like this

https://www.sweetwater.com/c1414--Spkr_ ... lsrc=aw.ds

To help aim them properly.

Also this forum needs a "Let us see your home studio" Thread badly.

Luckily these are sealed enclosures... and the manufacturer actually recommends corner placement... I'm just more worried about them being up so high... I might place them upside down to locate the tweeters a little closer to ear level...

Start that thread... I will contribute.

A good pair of closed back headphones, backed with your monitors, and some software tools can give you ways to work with your space, regardless of how ideal the space is.

There's been huge improvement recently in headphones and room emulation software for headphones. There's also analytical software to sort of guide you throw the energy spectrum, in the best way I can explain is a cheaper way to room correct and ear adjust.

I recently started using iZotope's Total Balance Control to help me with discovering frequencies that aren't covered well by my monitors, as well as a headphone plugin called VHS from Hornet. I did get a reference mic and planned on using Room EQ Wizard, but these pieces of software have already gave me a lot of improvements I've sort of pushed it aside for now.

Tonal Balance looks interesting.

I've been using IK Media ARC (Like sonarworks) for a few years and just upgraded to the standalone unit thing they just released. It's a not terrible room correction EQ. The new box lets you load curves and run them out of the box with zero latency so you get system wide correction (make your youtubes sound better!). In the past, it was a plugin only so if you wanted the correction across the entire system you had to use something like Ginger Audio Room on mac, or Equalizer APO on windows, which was crashy sometimes and I hated the interface. Room is excellent but Mac only (turtleneck wearing muther flippers!) so everyone should email them and tell them to make it for windows. Room works great with the new streamdeck that has knobs on it. 4 source, 4 destination Monitor control with plugin hosting, LUFS meters on all ins and outs, preset playback levels, all the mids and sides switcharoo you could want. It's great. Also if you aren't into Room EQ wizard, there is FuzzMeasure. Rode owns it now and it's a hundo, but I think the legacy version is still floating around the internet for free. Also mac only... These people must think every audio nerd drives a Passat.