Please help me with my ECHO CHAMBER :)

Beagle


but your daw should be on that LEFT wall, not the top one.  the speakers should be pointing down the long end of the room, not the short end.

Beagle


but your daw should be on that LEFT wall, not the top one.  the speakers should be pointing down the long end of the room, not the short end.

10Ten

Beagle


but your daw should be on that LEFT wall, not the top one.  the speakers should be pointing down the long end of the room, not the short end.

It should on the left end, not the left wall unless there is absolutely no other way to do it.

Guitarhacker


If that was my room..... and it sounded hollow.... before moving the gear (yeah I know the popular consensus is "move the gear")  put some curtains on the window and close the curtains...spread them so nobody can see in. That does 2 things.... keeps people outside from seeing the gear (thieves) and also starts some sound absorbing. Get a rug on the hardwood floor. Hang some blankets ( a temporary measure) on the walls on the 2 side walls and the wall behind the gear.

Right now, you do have a big echo chamber. Any time you have 2 parallel surfaces and place a sound source between them, the sound WILL bounce  back & forth. Add the floor & ceiling to the mix and the 4 walls.... man..... I know that will sound "hollow" even loaded with furniture. The furniture can only do so much.  By installing sound absorbing materials on 3 of the surfaces.... floor, window wall, and stairway wall...at least to start.... you should hear an immediate difference in the room...even using such lowly materials as a blanket.  Using a plant, like a ficus tree will add some ambience to the room and also diffuse a bit more of the sound...I'd put it in the center of the flat wall to the left..... just don't forget to water it from time to time.

When you get the room sounding better..... then as you can do so, buy the permanent solution materials.


edit: my studio room.... see if this don't make your hair curl..... the room is about 15x15, carpeted, pretty much 4 bare walls...windows used to have curtains, we redecorated and now they have shades..the pull down kind..... the ceiling is the 12"x12" fiber board tiles with paint on them..... the studio & monitors are in the corner of the room and the monitors are: one is on a shelf in front of a window....the other is inside a cabinet on a shelf..... common thought is don't place monitors against a wall or in a cabinet..... my sub is on the floor beside  the wall.  That's my studio.... despite the disadvantages, I am able to turn out some pretty decent sounding mixes.  But I think one reason is the room does not sound hollow. There is enough stuff in the room (work desk, rolltop desk, keyboard rack) to break up the reflections and the carpet and the ceiling tiles help to absorb the remaining echos pretty quickly.

Note: the room below my studio was also re-decorated. Right now it only has carpet and the same type ceiling and one chest of drawers.... and when I walk through it, it sounds "empty/hollow". The only thing that is missing from this room is 3 fabric covered upholstered chairs.  Little things will make a big difference at times...