The two most important things in "getting a better sound" is your listening environment and monitors. Get your mixing room acoustically treated and then worry about excellent monitors (speakers).

Ripeart So get my room acoustically treated should be my first objective?

and then worry about all that other stuff? Alright thanks!

CodyFromCleveland, post: 373344 wrote: and then worry about all that other stuff? Alright thanks!

Well environment first, then monitors. After that your a lot further than most home studios.

You can send Auralex a diagram of your room using their printable form and they will freely send back what they calculate as what you need for panels, traps, etc. in the hopes that you will buy that stuff from them.

It's a good start, and you can ask here about treating your space. There are many experts that will provide helpful info.

Ninja edit: I'm not implying that you should buy Auralex products, just that they will do a free room analysis and provide recommendations for you.

How handy are you? Your best/inexpensive bet will be to build your own bass traps and absorption panels of rock wool or OC703.

jimmys69, post: 373349 wrote: How handy are you? Your best/inexpensive bet will be to build your own bass traps and absorption panels of rock wool or OC703.

Pretty handy, how would I go about doing that? Like what all would I need?

Bass traps for all!!!

All walls are parellel from one another that creates massive reflections and standing waves. The back of your room should have an area that is no shallower than 12" that can be blocked off at least mostly. Creating bass traps is simple. You will be taking 1/4 masonite panels that are at least half the height of the wall. and 10 to 12" wide. Take the rock wool and glue to each side of the masonite panels. You want to make enough to cover the wall with them at an angle. See the inclosed image.

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The traps should be suspended by wire or rope from your ceiling and from the floor. Make sure they don't touch the walls at all. You can either cover them with fabric or make a false wall out of fabric in front of the whole contraption. The idea is for the bass waves to travel to them and stop there and not return to your ears. Please get back to me if you have any questions.

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I have not yet seen ^this^ bass trap design before. Do you have any test results for it?

This is the method I used, minus the batting. The batting looks like crap, adds to cost, and does nothing to help absorption. The panels are very lightweight and portable. I made 10 for around $160 if I remember correctly. SPI insulation is the distributor of the rock wool I used. If they are not near you, I'm sure you can find another. Shipping of rock wool or OC703 is ridiculous. Home Depot will have everything else.

http://www.radford.edu/shelm/acoustics/bass-traps.html

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While making this reply I noticed that you were speaking of is the rigid insulation like 702. My design is for the floppy true rock wool. It needs the rigidity of the masonite. The masonite being suspended renovate and helps absorb energy that would otherwise be redirected. I see your system.and it does work well. My system does sound incredible and absolutely obliterated the low end reflections. It does require more space.