I always say: You can improve the sound in ANY room with acoustic treatment.

How FAR you can take things is another question. A lot of it depends on just how much space we are willing to sacrifice.

But the fact is: Some rooms are just more difficult than others.

And the location of doors and w...

Oftentimes the absolute WORST rooms to set up your home studio in are said to be perfect squares.

When the length and width (and sometimes height) of the room are the same, all the room modes pile up at the same frequencies and make getting a balanced low end close to impossible.

Stay away from...

As we’re setting up a new studio in our spare bedroom, basement or attic there’s often this nagging thought of:

“Man, is this really gonna work..?”

The room is SO small. The ceiling is SUPER low. And the resonances in here are just OFF THE CHARTS.

Is it even worth doing anything at all?

In to...

Have you ever thought that your room might actually be too small to do any useful acoustic treatment?

That you can’t really get good sound in there anyway, and that if you tried you might end up “overwhelming” the room somehow?

Well let me show you what is actually possible even in a tiny room,...

Over the past weeks Graham of Music City Acoustics and I have been showing you step-by-step how to treat a home studio.

If you’ve missed those episodes, check them out here.

And unsurprisingly, there were a TON of questions about the whole thing.

So we decided to do a follow-up Q&A session.

A...

Sub-bass control with resonance traps. The holy grail of studio acoustics.

When it comes down to it, the lowest of the lowest audio frequencies can really only be properly absorbed with targeted, tuned resonance absorbers.

For most of us DIY audio engineers, this tends to be outside the scope o...

If you’ve been following my start-to-finish room treatment series with Graham from MusicCityAcoustics, I’m sure you’ve thought:

“Yeaaaah, that looks great ‘n all… But how well does it work?”

Well today we’re going to find out.

In this video we’ll show you how it all measures up.

Graham took d...

Last week Graham (from Music City Acoustics) and I started treating his new demo room by showing you in detail how to correctly place the desk and speakers.

This week, we are moving on to actually treating the room.

We’ll show you exactly how we placed acoustic panels and bass traps to treat th...

Have you noticed that there are actually surprisingly few videos online that walk you through the entire acoustic treatment of a home studio, step-by-step?

Starting with the empty room and the placement of the desk and speakers, all the way through planning, building and installing the treatment...

One of the things you’ll hear repeated regularly if you go down the DIY bass trap rabbit hole is:

You can’t control bass with porous absorbers. You need resonance absorbers (membrane, Helmholtz, whatever). Period.

Well, I beg to differ. :D

As always, it’s not a matter of possible or not, but H...

As we’re setting up a new studio in our spare bedroom, basement or attic there’s often this nagging thought of:

“Man, is this really gonna work..?”

The room is SO small. The ceiling is SUPER low. And there are all these weird corners to deal with.

Is it even worth doing anything at ...

I don't know how it is for you. But whenever I see people's videos on YouTube I wonder:

What's outside of the frame that you've chosen?

What dirty little secrets are you hiding that you don't want me to see?

I bet you have a junk corner with all sorts of interesting crap.

And it...