Now that I'm done painting the studio...

Rimshot
It looks great Rain.  I too love the color.  The items and areas you describe are acting as traps in themselves.  You will need to do your testing by listening at different levels and sitting in different places in the room to see where the standing waves and phasing occurs.  You will most likely need more treatment to balance out the room but that is up to your ears to decide.  
Great job so far!
 

mixmkr
carefully ordering the foam stuff, as most of it is just junk.  Looks cool, but ends there.

mixmkr
I think some of the Auralex stuff can approach being OK.  Long time ago, I ordered some fancy looking stuff and it basically did nothing as compared to the bass traps and wall absorbers make with the ubiquitous rigid fiberglass on home treatments you see nowadays.
I will say, I've never walked into a big boy studio and seen rigid fiberglass hanging on the walls or stuffed in corners. (ala Ethan Winer style or his counterparts)  The movable gobos were the only place I saw stuff like that.

wst3

mixmkr<snippity>
I will say, I've never walked into a big boy studio and seen rigid fiberglass hanging on the walls or stuffed in corners. (ala Ethan Winer style or his counterparts)  The movable gobos were the only place I saw stuff like that.

Here's the deal... there are three tools one has for room treatment - absorption, diffusion, and reflection. All three of these can be part of the room design, or part of the room treatment. If you make them part of the room design you (generally) end up using less of all of them, since the room dimensions and geometry do the lion's share of the work.
 
Few of us can afford/justify a purpose built room, so we are left with room treatment. That's not a bad thing at all, just is. But it is the reason you don't often see a lot of foam or fiberglass on the control room or studio walls in a "big boy" studio.
 
Foam vs Fiberglass panels - every material has different absorptive properties. Most manufacturers of absorbers publish their own measurements, and these days the measurements are (mostly) meaningful, although you may need to read the fine print to understand how they made those measurements.
 
Both work, but both solve different problems. And once you understand which does what you can make an informed purchase, and get the results you want.
 
Before you make any purchase you need to find the optimal location for the monitors and your ears - it isn't always the most ergonomic, or attractive arrangement, so you may have to make some trade-offs, but that is the best starting point.
 
My current temporary digs are completely untreated. In fact it's a mess! But I was able to improve, dramatically, both the stereo image and the frequency balance by experimenting with placement. It is NOT ideal, but it works. I am not happy with the bottom octaves, but that turns out to be my choice of monitors, not the room (well, mostly, you know what I mean<G>). New monitors will extend the low end, and I may need to make further adjustments, but I'm anxious to give it a try. (FWIW, current monitors use a 5" driver, new ones will use an 8" driver, based on preliminary - read not in my space - auditions this will help a lot.)

Have fun! Make Music!

wst3
feeling pedantic this morning (need more coffee!!!!)
 
LEDE(tm) was a design APPROACH championed by Chips Davis, Don Davis (no relation), and several other acousticians and audio engineers in the 1980s. As with many other things, it was based on research from earlier decades, but the advent of the Time Delay Spectrometryand TEF it was now possible to document the performance of small spaces.

The thing is LEDE(tm) and RFZ(tm) and other design philosophies, including the "Non Environment" approach are all simply (???) attempts to control reflections - and specifically to redirect, diffuse, or absorb reflections so that only "good" reflections reach the listener.
 
So the live end can be in the front or the back, and opposite either an absorptive or diffusive surface. The treatments themselves are not nearly as important as the result. I think most here probably appreciate that, but figured it bears repeating.
 
What you can not do - and yes, I've seen examples - is put the live end on the right and the dead end on the left. Symmetry is still critical, although the definition of symmetry becomes complex in surround environments<G>!
 
My point is don't get hung up on a specific approach. Some rooms lend themselves to one approach, but most rooms can be treated in any fashion as long as you pay attention to mitigating the bad reflections.
 
The other point - in a purpose built room treatments become much less important because the dimensions and geometry take care of most of the bad reflections.

Mod Bod
  I find the room enjoyable to work in.

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mixmkr

Mod Bod
  I find the room enjoyable to work in.

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More photos - https://www.facebook.com/Gatortraks/photos_stream
 

I'm guessing that's because you have a nice looking blond in leather hot pants standing around watching you mix?? ;-D