whats the best way to spend 500-600 hundred dollars on room treatment

[Yonce N Mild]

IF you have 2500 square feet of extra space in a city like chicago,phili,new york or cali then you must have alot of extra dough to throw around cause thats even pretty expensive here in oklahoma and were cheap compared to the national average. i have family from cali that wig out when they see what 150,000 will get them here, you way even be able to boast having acreage if you're smart

He said cubic feet I think he is talking volume not floor space.

[junyadrin]

ohhhhh........ cubic feet, i should've known.

so if you have a 10 by 10 that equals 100 square feet and 400 cubic feet right?

[MASSIVE Mastering]

ohhhhh........ cubic feet, i should've known.

so if you have a 10 by 10 that equals 100 square feet and 400 cubic feet right?

If the room is only 4 feet tall, then yes.

[Pase]

ohhhhh........ cubic feet, i should've known.

so if you have a 10 by 10 that equals 100 square feet and 400 cubic feet right?

if the room is 10x10x10 you have 1000 cubic feet

[kodama-wat]

Just try not to be sitting in the center of the room!

I would try and make your setup at an angle, keep it slightly off the center line of the room. Start with speakers at least 50cm from the rear and side walls (ie. out of the corners), and then start playing some music. Move just your sitting position and speakers around until you find a compromise. This might take some hours. Then start adding tables, desks and whatever stuido equipment you use around this.

Also would help plugging some of the bass ports on your monitors to control the low end.

Use dampening such as heavy carpet on floors and walls (but don't cover the whole room, it will sound terribly dead!), sofas and what not to control the high frequencies. These expensive kits you can buy are just that, expensive foam. It might look nice, but there is really no such thing as acoustic foam, it's just expensive, nice coloured foam.

This should help with the mids and highs. If the bass is still out of control (ie. you can't acutally hear each note clearly, or some notes are louder than others), then I would suggest buying or building some bass traps to absorb the low frequencies and therefore stop the cancelling and adding effects as then hit in mid air. The simplest and actually very effictive bass trap for deep bass is a sheet of rockwool hung about 12cm from the wall. You just need to put the rockwool into a cover, either home made or there are companies making these specially for budget studios. More info is available on the net if you search a little, I don't have the name to hand, sorry!

Take it easy,

miKe