Help with monitors for a home studio

**kmetal** · 09-26-2011, 07:51 PM

Why can't the room be treated? (not being sarcastic, JW) Mucsicians friend sells aurelex foam for $60, for 32 s.q.f. i'd pick up 3 boxes of that, two bundles of rigid fiberglass, and some mics stands on the cheap. If you glue the foam to some ped-board, you can cheaply/easily make some mic stand mount-able panels. they can be moved around to aid during tracking, then moved in the 'mirror points' for mixing. as for the fiberglass, make some "super chunks" bass traps. a quick search on RO will show you these. Use some comercial grade velcro type stuff, perhaps glued to a thin piece of wood, to stick foam to your ceiling. This stuff is all temporary and will hopefully, be allowable on your situation. It will help hear your theater system better, and your raw tracks, should benefit as much as your mixes. it will go much further in the long run than low priced monitors, or any priced mointors, which are designed w/ reasonably accurate rooms in mind.

**sachit** · 09-27-2011, 09:26 AM

Hey thanks a lot kmetal. That sounds really practical. But will I be using those auralex pads for 'isolating' the source from reflections while recording? And will the super-chunk bass traps be portable?

EDIT: I forgot to add, my room's L-shaped. Will that pose a problem?

**keldog** · 09-27-2011, 09:33 AM

I'm not kmetal but I play one on TV. (heh heh)

You can make any of this stuff portable. Like for the superchunks...just put your stack of triangles in a small lightweight frame or even in some sort of sack. And then just use velcro or really anything to hold it up in the corners.
As far as the auralex...just make your gobos and glue EM to cardboard, hang your cardboard on the wall like ya would a picture.

Lots of ways to work around this stuff.

Peace-n-shit.