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How about hard ceiling/soft floor? My floor is carpeted (short pile), my ceiling is currently sheathed in 1/4" plywood rather than drywall, painted with a typical flat-finish paint.

Brian wrote: Are these just rhetorical questions for passing the time of day?
I miss the OFF TOPIC forum.

Not at all, I really want to improve my room, and to that end I am trying to learn as much as I can. I don't know why you would think that, nor do I see what is off topic about any of this.

I fine with that answer, I'm not opposed to treating with 703, and I have a client with good carpentry skills who can build frames etc for traps as a barter for time, so that's very accessible. I'm just trying to learn more about this stuff, and my own reasoning suggested that drapes might be helpfu...

What about my last question re moving around the room?

It seems to me that if room modes are the problem I would hear variations in LF level when I move around the room, wouldn't I?
I was checking that last night and I don't hear any appreciable changes when I walk around the room.

How do you figure it would amplify LF issues? It seems to me that drapes with some real weight to them would act like a membrane absorber, "giving" a little with the high-energy LF pressure waves.

I was thinking that hanging heavy drapes, with a velvet-like texture, might be an effective sound treatment for my side walls. The way I want to orient my mix position, what will be one side wall has a window, and the other has closet with sliding doors. So having drapes that could be opened or clos...

Wow, a triple post! I guess you really mean it! :lol:

Thanks for the response, and that is a bit of encouraging news.

I should specify that my V8s are, I believe, the original series, not the series 2.

I don't hear low frequencies as well as I would like to in my mix room. It is possible that I need room treatment, and I plan on working on that and monitor placement in the near future. But I am wondering if part of my difficulty is with the monitors themselves. I am using KRK V8s. I would love to ...

So Genelecs and Mackies have a lot of "boom and sizzle"? That explains something.. I just had a project mastered by a guy who was using Genelecs, I'd guess they were 8" 2-way (also in a marginally treated plaster rectangle of a room) and they certainly were bright! It was actually this experience th...

Any guidelines on choosing monitors for mastering vs mixing? Are there specific marques which orient their speakers in that direction? I would think that it comes down to the same thing mixing comes down to: get the room acoustics as good as you can, and choose the flattest monitors you can for the ...

I am sure there is a wealth of information online about diy room treatment. What I wonder is if there is any "aggregator" that collects links to this info all in one place (I know, it's called The Google) and perhaps offers reviews, feedback, etc. Anyone know of anything out there like this? I can d...

So when I master my own stuff (I'm a long-time hobbyist 15+ years now) and share it on CD with a friend, the feedback sometimes is "yeah, I love the way it sounds but it needs to be louder". And I'm left thinking...then turn up the volume knob on your stereo, right? I remember Let It Bleed * had on...

Still waiting on shipping quote.