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  • Acoustic treatement of multichannel monitoring rooms

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    Dear all,

    I am desperatly in need of help with advise, links, dealers, knowlegde, whatsoever, on the subject to optimize a room for multichannel monitoring.

    In the latest Sound on Sound from April was an interview with Nitin Sawhney, where his studio was seen treated with Panels that had AIR series Monitors recessed built in, well it appear this way on the picture.

    If anyone knows what Panels these are and where to get them, or has any other idea bout the right stuff for multichannel acoustic treatement.....

    GREATLY appreciated!

    Rgds
    ~^..^~
    Bear
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    www.Moultonlabs.com

    For practical reasons, I don't have my room set up this way - unfortunately - but my friend Dave Moulton's ideas about room acoustics are worth reading. They're also controversial, especially among people selling acoustic treatment!

    He says - and has convinced me - that for mixing rooms, you want to leave the sides hard and unobstructed (i.e. no equipment in the way). He takes care of the excess reverb at the front of the room and uses diffusion at the rear; the idea is that contrary to popular wisdom, the reflections from the sides actually help with the imaging. People always say that you should muffle side reflections because they'll comb filter against the "direct" sound coming from the speakers, but actually it's only reflections coming from the same angle as the speakers that do that.

    While you'd think that the best sound comes directly from the speakers, and the effects of the room take it all downhill from there, that's not actually true. The reasons for that are pretty complicated, but the gist of it is that the speaker isn't representing the direct sound, it's actually representing the first reflections (if I remember it ight).

    This set-up works whether you're mixing in stereo or surround, by the way. The great thing about it is that you can make a room sound very good without calling in the architects. That's not to say that you aren't going to do better wtih a room designed from scratch, but you can make most rooms workable this way.

    Anyway, what I'm saying is a pretty bad bastardation of Dave's ideas, so I'll now officially shut up and let you read it in his words.
  • L
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    Very useful stuff in deed Nick....Tought provoking!

    Thanks a bunch and greetings from Ireland....

    ~^..^~
    Bear
  • N
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    And greetings to you to, sir, from Los Angeles!
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    I was hoping that some of the people here in Post-Pro could post some links or share knowledge about multichannel recording rooms as well.... such as the chaps at VSL who must have gained extensive rexperience, as I saw in various reports, their show booth for example looks like a pretty decent design.

    I found the Nuendo Post-Pro editors Forum recently and will ask there as well, seems to me this is a good adress for such a question.

    Lucky you Nick.... nice and sunny.... I trhink I need to find myself a warmer place <grin>
  • DietzD
    VSL Team
    DietzD
    You could try to get in contact with our acoustic designer, Mr. Peter Willensdorfer from [URL=http://www.tonarchitektur.at]Tonarchitektur[/URL]. He planned a large number of studios in Central Europe, amongst them all our edit suites, the SilentStage and the Symphonic Booth, too.

    His webpage is mostly in German, but if you contact him, his English is perfect (... after all, he is the main distributor of AMS/Neve products in Austria, too 8-] ...)

    HTH,

    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library

    PS: ... see you in the Nuendo-forum! ;-]
    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library
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    I am from Cologne originally, so I might just remember a few words here and there [[;)]]

    Thanks VERY much Ditez, much appreciated.

    Schoenes Wochenende! - Springtime here in Ireland.... had 16 degrees last week already, the next day 5 degrees.... LOL... THATS weather... -

    ~^..^~
    Bear
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    @Dietz said:

    PS: ... see you in the Nuendo-forum! ;-]
    LOL which one do you mean? the Post-Pro? Or did you mean the other one, from Steinberg.... I rather sit with my dog on the shore and watch the seals. [[;)]]