Rob Morgan here, owner of Studio 7. I am so happy you like my mix room. The pic makes things look weird. The KH420's are angled down. The desk is deeper than it looks, The Genelecs are 43 inches apart from center and form a perfect unilateral triangle to my head. I originally didn't have the wood defusures over the side panel absorbers, but the room was too dead according to the GRADE report the GLM system gives me. Putting the wood strips up livened up the room slightly and now the room is 100% within the industry recommended T60 flatness window. This was a fun video to watch. I can;t wait to see more!
Hi everyone, studio 1 was my setup. First of all big thanks to you David for your tips. The tweeter of the monitors are actually ear hight. Also as someone mentioned here the side foam are actually diffusers. These series are fun and educational at the same time 💯
This is very interesting. I definitely learned a few new things that I've never heard of before. Also seeing other home studios and professional studios is interesting too!
Hey, guy from studio 8 here Panels, traps and cloud are all rockwool, they work great. rt60 is well within the limits. The subwoofer and sub amp are actually from car audio. JBL 10" Subwoofer powered with a DLS CA23 Car Amplifier, hooked up to 12V by an old computer PSU. It's hacky but does the job. That's the way I like it. Looking to get a kali 6inch sub in the future to match the IN-5s, but until I have the money it will have to do. 😄
I think you would facepalm at my studio as a whole, but give my rack/recording set up the double thumbs up 😂. It’s hard to commit to the space since I know I’m going to have to move it all soon, which is the main reason the room/treatment is sub-optimal. Once I’m settled I’m putting all my resources into upgrading my desk/monitors, and going BONKERS with real acoustic treatment. Also waiting to upgrade my mic cabinet until I have a better space to work with and acoustic treatment 100% figures out, otherwise I worry going all out on mics will just further expose the less than ideal room setting.
Crazy idea: Any chance you would be willing to conduct a "rate my gear" video with picture submissions? I still have my first piece of gear I got when I was just starting and had no money, a Samson S-Com Plus compressor!
Hello! Really random bits of fact haha. Got a chance to work at one of the smaller studios from studio 4! Amazing and beautiful place, the owner was such an awesome dude. Those speakers aren't ATC but part of a fantom focus system! I think they are originally Dynaudio M1 passives modified with different drivers. If I remember the creator of Fantom Focus worked directly with Dynaudio to source and customize the speakers to his liking. The room sounded awesome and those monitors pumped stupid amounts of volume!
Thanks for including mine! Fun series for sure.... your comments on speakers being to glose is true for sure, that's why I'm converting a bigger room to a studio as we speak. The dimensions as they are now are limiting me too much
Yawl make me feel so punk rock 🤣 I got Rockwool in garbadge bags thumbtacked to my walls and now fear my monitors are to far apart....This video series is gona rule / educate the crap out of me 🍻🤘
This is so entertaining David!! You know you inspired so many of us to get the pieces of gear that we have! I sent pics attached, ill send a link. I'm gonna get roster for not having treatment behind my speakers 😂😂😂
Great little series! Your advice is spot on and constructive. BTW :Thanks so much for spreading the word that foam doesn’t really do anything good. I wasted a ton of money on it at first. Then I did a real room tuning and gave it away. Foam turned out to be misleading so I switched to GIK after an attempt at home building panels and traps.
Hello, David, also everyone in the comments! I'd like to ask a question about room treatment. What if I treat my walls with acoustic foam first and then place everything on top of it? For example, I plan to buy some budget friendly tube basstraps + some acoustic panels. This thin layer of acoustic foam will still stand in between the wall and the bass traps/panels, will that make them less effective (panels and the traps)? Also a question, I read in an article that increasing the distance between acoustic treatment objects(foam, bass traps, panels) etc.) and the wall actually increases their effectiveness. As a rule of thumb, the distance between the wall and a treatment object/device should be equal to the thickness of that object/device. How true do you find that statement? If I first put acoustic foam on some soft plastic panels that are about the same thickness as the acoustic foam itself, will that increase the foam's effectiveness? Thank you everyone!
I hear you about foam on walls, but analyzation by Trinnov or other software indicate that the larger (mega) LENARD corner traps are surprisingly effective, and we own products by Primacoustic and Real Traps, as well as having made our own custom massive corner traps. We were as surprised as anyone. But yes, the foam wall treatment squares, barely useful, if at all. Better money spent making your own wall panels, and actually not that difficult. Fun new series, though, David! Grazie
you bro great video. i think you should get a song from the studios that send you the pics. to compare the room to what the studio is putting out. Hope you understand what i am trying to say
That guy has the Adam to adjust reverb tails and stuff like that, the Adam tweeter has a different presentation and it’s good for that. That’s why it’s not really redundant either the NS10.
The Genelecs in studio 6 are Genelec 8315BP monitors. Thy have a 5 inch Midrange driver, a 1 inch tweeter (the tweeter and midrange are coaxial btw) and it has 2 8.3 inch woofers. My uni had a pair of these and they're amazing!
Thanks for this interesting video. Most of the desks are deep and ill positioned - so they bounce early reflections pretty hard towards the ears of the engineer = comb filtering. For a production studio not a dealbreaker, mixing and mastering however might prove a little frustrating because of the acoustic colouration of sound. Bastrap tip: if you have little space but want to absorb deep frequencies, check the Modex Plates.
Im definitely a fan of this video bro! Good advice and info given for proper studio building. Which I am always interested in learning more about. I tried to learn about testing my room but that seems like something a professional should do. Because Im not sure what the results are telling me exactly, if that makes sense? Anyways, great video man!
Finishing up on my boom bap courses going to sign up to your channel soon as i always watch you if your available on whatever im searching. Always struggle with conflicting info and last i checked speakers i needed were eve audio, in producing mixing and mastering, trying to, only have two krk rokit 8s, is it worth me getting the sub or should i just keep saving for the eve
Great series idea, really enjoyed watching this....I picked up a couple of tips for my own home studio too, thanks David. BTW my home space is only 9ft x 9ft (as bad as it gets acoustically) and I have custom made bass traps and panels on the walls and ceiling the only place i don't have panels are the room corners, but given how small the room is, is it even worth worrying about this?
They are epic. studio 4 had lots of nice gear. Best gear out of all of them, the MBP too. Iove RND gear. Shelford Pair > 5059> MBT > MBP > 5069 is like having a 5088 in miniature form lol
Foam does absolutely nothing other than blunting reflections of high frequencies. Does nothing for anything below probably 1K and also the way it absorbs it's not ideal because it sucks out too much in that high range. Never use foam
Besides what David said, Studio foam will leave your room dark and muddy-sounding. Ideally, you want a flat frequency response from your room's reflections. Studio foam will take you very far from that.
Foam is GREAT, for the inside of a case to protect your gear lol. Foam panels (especially foam ‘bass traps’) is pretty much a scam imo. I’m happy David is so vocal about this!
Studio 1: Those ‘foam’ panels look more like diffusor to me. Studio 6: They looks like 8341 or 8351. Interesting series. Some great feedback. Learnt a few things. I’m in the process of re-racking and arranging my main ‘mix’ room. Thinking I will change the desk position as I have it against the ling wall in a narrow /long wall like the one you commented about. Thinking about changing it now.
@@ignacedhont9816 nobody said that. But you can buy plastic defusers what look like that pattern, in the same colour as the square items on the side walls. So we’d need the owner to confirm. Vid/photo quality not clear enough to be sure due to light. Vicustic I think is one brand.
Uh that's a really small room, you're gonna have low end issues no matter what but yeah, 3-4K probably. It's gonna also need some software correction as well being that small
@@mixbustv Genelec GLM already here. Yes it is a small room. Just converting a spare room in my house. It is just for mixing. Nothing else. I'll be building a custom building in time to come when I retire and have more time for the hobby :-)... I just booked a professional assessment for next week. Let's see what they say. Within 2 or 3 years I hope to have something more like Studio 4 in your video. That is my retirement hobby target.
@@mixbustvwell…. I’m very deep into the Rabbit hole now. Budget blown just on the back-wall! Strange dimensions of the room make off the shelf units unsuitable so custom made it has to be. Am neck deep in CAD drawings at the moment…. So fk you and all your wisdom! 😂😂😂 (joking of course!, not trolling ha ha)… i’m actually hoping once the room is treated I’ll discover Incan actually mix properly ha ha
Senn hd600 because they're amazing and I know then very well and a pair of Audeze that my friend Erik uses but I don't remember the model. They're in the 1200 USD range EDIT: LCD-X
Hi @MixbusTv, please for the bare wall (i.e the part where your monitors, screen and other gears are positioned), for someone who's in a rented apartment, can one use a curtain to cover the wall or a thicker material like a duvet?
Top tip. Use command strips to stick them to the wall. They won’t make holes or leave any marks. The more Expensive ones hold lots of KGS just use whole pack and you’ll be grand.
Was making a comment about how most people spend everything on gear and do not bother with the most important part of the monitoring system, the acoustics, in relation to studio 4 and then you see the back shot where he has really good acoustics but nothing in the front or side???? where did this person get his acoustic information from? a clip about the back walls and then didn't research anything else?
You’re right. In my case, I spent a lot of money on gear before hammering out more important areas just because there’s a lot of things I can’t control with the current space I’m working with, and I know for a fact that I’m going to have to pack all this stuff up and move it in the next six months. I also just know my room well enough to work around it for now but it is frustrating.
I’m in same boat. Knew the space would not be forever so piled up on the gear. Not going to go overboard on treatments though as it will all be a compromise in current space. Planning to build a purpose made space with treatments built into the fabric of the building. I.e 2m deep traps 😂. Then have a pair of 8381s and a hoverboard to travel between racks lol
Anybody know how the ferrofish pulse 16 compares to the black lion audio revolution exp 8x8? I need 8 channels for hardware insert setup to make my rig hybrid and I've heard good things about the black lion as far as the clocking and conversion goes, which one??...
Which DA converter with most accurate monitoring would you recommend for mixing / mastering on headphones with no hardware ? Was thinking about Lynx Hilo 2 Thanks
Rob Morgan here, owner of Studio 7. I am so happy you like my mix room. The pic makes things look weird. The KH420's are angled down. The desk is deeper than it looks, The Genelecs are 43 inches apart from center and form a perfect unilateral triangle to my head. I originally didn't have the wood defusures over the side panel absorbers, but the room was too dead according to the GRADE report the GLM system gives me. Putting the wood strips up livened up the room slightly and now the room is 100% within the industry recommended T60 flatness window. This was a fun video to watch. I can;t wait to see more!
Professional studios shouldn’t be uploading their pics. It’s not fair to us poor people. 😅 Lol
@@PharaohLawLess1 i see it as motivation! Something to aim for. 👍💪
Is this a competition? 😂
@@schmuckeprinz my Pultec is bigger than yours 🤣🤣🤣
:D :D
@@infojunkie4989 yeah me to. Something to dream/work for
should be called ''I Roast your studio! Episode 1'', haha i'm just playing!
i could watch this all day
I could watch you all day.
Oh this is even better than I thought! I hope you keep doing these!
This is actually amazing, keep it going!
I like this! A truth you said is:"room before gear". And the importance of studio monitors.The pics are amazing.
Hi everyone, studio 1 was my setup. First of all big thanks to you David for your tips.
The tweeter of the monitors are actually ear hight. Also as someone mentioned here the side foam are actually diffusers.
These series are fun and educational at the same time 💯
lol I literally looked at your channel an hour before this posted to see if you had released this series yet 😂
This is very interesting. I definitely learned a few new things that I've never heard of before. Also seeing other home studios and professional studios is interesting too!
Hey, guy from studio 8 here
Panels, traps and cloud are all rockwool, they work great. rt60 is well within the limits. The subwoofer and sub amp are actually from car audio. JBL 10" Subwoofer powered with a DLS CA23 Car Amplifier, hooked up to 12V by an old computer PSU. It's hacky but does the job. That's the way I like it. Looking to get a kali 6inch sub in the future to match the IN-5s, but until I have the money it will have to do. 😄
This is great advice opportunity
I think you would facepalm at my studio as a whole, but give my rack/recording set up the double thumbs up 😂. It’s hard to commit to the space since I know I’m going to have to move it all soon, which is the main reason the room/treatment is sub-optimal. Once I’m settled I’m putting all my resources into upgrading my desk/monitors, and going BONKERS with real acoustic treatment. Also waiting to upgrade my mic cabinet until I have a better space to work with and acoustic treatment 100% figures out, otherwise I worry going all out on mics will just further expose the less than ideal room setting.
Very nice series, keep on rolling!!
Crazy idea: Any chance you would be willing to conduct a "rate my gear" video with picture submissions? I still have my first piece of gear I got when I was just starting and had no money, a Samson S-Com Plus compressor!
Hello! Really random bits of fact haha.
Got a chance to work at one of the smaller studios from studio 4! Amazing and beautiful place, the owner was such an awesome dude.
Those speakers aren't ATC but part of a fantom focus system! I think they are originally Dynaudio M1 passives modified with different drivers. If I remember the creator of Fantom Focus worked directly with Dynaudio to source and customize the speakers to his liking.
The room sounded awesome and those monitors pumped stupid amounts of volume!
Great idea for content. I like the first studios desk
Thanks for including mine! Fun series for sure.... your comments on speakers being to glose is true for sure, that's why I'm converting a bigger room to a studio as we speak.
The dimensions as they are now are limiting me too much
Yawl make me feel so punk rock 🤣 I got Rockwool in garbadge bags thumbtacked to my walls and now fear my monitors are to far apart....This video series is gona rule / educate the crap out of me 🍻🤘
This is so entertaining David!! You know you inspired so many of us to get the pieces of gear that we have! I sent pics attached, ill send a link. I'm gonna get roster for not having treatment behind my speakers 😂😂😂
Kush is underrated... IMHO
Nice to see some Genelecs!
Great little series! Your advice is spot on and constructive. BTW :Thanks so much for spreading the word that foam doesn’t really do anything good. I wasted a ton of money on it at first. Then I did a real room tuning and gave it away. Foam turned out to be misleading so I switched to GIK after an attempt at home building panels and traps.
Keep it going bro
This was great! Awesome advice. Looking forward to the next one!
Hello, David, also everyone in the comments!
I'd like to ask a question about room treatment. What if I treat my walls with acoustic foam first and then place everything on top of it? For example, I plan to buy some budget friendly tube basstraps + some acoustic panels. This thin layer of acoustic foam will still stand in between the wall and the bass traps/panels, will that make them less effective (panels and the traps)?
Also a question, I read in an article that increasing the distance between acoustic treatment objects(foam, bass traps, panels) etc.) and the wall actually increases their effectiveness. As a rule of thumb, the distance between the wall and a treatment object/device should be equal to the thickness of that object/device. How true do you find that statement?
If I first put acoustic foam on some soft plastic panels that are about the same thickness as the acoustic foam itself, will that increase the foam's effectiveness?
Thank you everyone!
I love this segmen
Love this series. I’d love to send you my studio pics to rate.
I hear you about foam on walls, but analyzation by Trinnov or other software indicate that the larger (mega) LENARD corner traps are surprisingly effective, and we own products by Primacoustic and Real Traps, as well as having made our own custom massive corner traps. We were as surprised as anyone. But yes, the foam wall treatment squares, barely useful, if at all. Better money spent making your own wall panels, and actually not that difficult. Fun new series, though, David! Grazie
I could watch this for hours, very entertaining. Totally enjoyed myself! Thank you!
Nice first episode !
Maybe I'll dare to submit pictures of my humble home studio ! 😅
Dave, I really like what you are doing with this. It gets the viewers involved. Excellent!!!!!!!
Excellent vid. Looking forward to watching the next one. Please also create vids reviewing different mixes in your studio.
20:19 😂😂😂🔥
you bro great video. i think you should get a song from the studios that send you the pics. to compare the room to what the studio is putting out. Hope you understand what i am trying to say
Mine was 4 thank you for the review! I will definitely look into your suggestions
the first studio. The diffusors are not foam. They are polystyrene. Works fine. Fragile but hard.
I called it 😂
Very cool, great to see all the
different setups. Like this a lot 👍🏼
I like this!
That guy has the Adam to adjust reverb tails and stuff like that, the Adam tweeter has a different presentation and it’s good for that. That’s why it’s not really redundant either the NS10.
Yeah very good until you move your head half an INCH lol
this series is the jam. keep doing these
This is GREAT! Also you're running out of space for gear ahah again!
The Genelecs in studio 6 are Genelec 8315BP monitors. Thy have a 5 inch Midrange driver, a 1 inch tweeter (the tweeter and midrange are coaxial btw) and it has 2 8.3 inch woofers. My uni had a pair of these and they're amazing!
I’ve just upgraded to a pair of these myself along with a sub. They are indeed ‘next level’
This will help a lot of people, great series David!
Thanks for this interesting video. Most of the desks are deep and ill positioned - so they bounce early reflections pretty hard towards the ears of the engineer = comb filtering. For a production studio not a dealbreaker, mixing and mastering however might prove a little frustrating because of the acoustic colouration of sound.
Bastrap tip: if you have little space but want to absorb deep frequencies, check the Modex Plates.
Awesome video! Looking forward to more of these 🙂
Funny, nice idea, go on with more studios please !
Im definitely a fan of this video bro! Good advice and info given for proper studio building. Which I am always interested in learning more about. I tried to learn about testing my room but that seems like something a professional should do. Because Im not sure what the results are telling me exactly, if that makes sense? Anyways, great video man!
NICE! This actually helps so much
Great segment. Keep it going!
my studio is a dell laptop and a fan to cool the laptop🤣🤣
If you're using it for music I hope you make a video once you setup your stream deck.
Yess I will
Part 2 plz
This was lots of fun : )
Finishing up on my boom bap courses going to sign up to your channel soon as i always watch you if your available on whatever im searching. Always struggle with conflicting info and last i checked speakers i needed were eve audio, in producing mixing and mastering, trying to, only have two krk rokit 8s, is it worth me getting the sub or should i just keep saving for the eve
LOVE THIS!!!
It would be great to hear the music made by every setup.
cheers from Spaceoceans Studios -PREXENTS
Thanks brotha, informative stuff
Great idea David~
2nd episode please
fun series - nice analysis
Of course I like it!
Remember back it the day, way back.. I thought you where a wrought.... And of course later apologised.. Keep them coming.
Beers and Cheers from Oz.
Why no fan of Adam Audio? Or was is just the placement of those?
Wow. Learned something from this.
Love it.
I'll submit mine after I get some treatment
Great series idea, really enjoyed watching this....I picked up a couple of tips for my own home studio too, thanks David. BTW my home space is only 9ft x 9ft (as bad as it gets acoustically) and I have custom made bass traps and panels on the walls and ceiling the only place i don't have panels are the room corners, but given how small the room is, is it even worth worrying about this?
Definitely better if you do
@@mixbustv Ok great thanks!
Studio 4 🤤
Like this videos! Very good !
How can i sent you some photos off my studio for the next video?
Buy and read this book!!!
Master Handbook of Acoustics, Seventh Edition by Ken C. Pohlmann and F. Alton...
super funny ... we all are the same
love it
Like it!
Why you don’t like Adam audio monitors?
We're do you send this in through I do not see a email 😅
Hello Sir , I use FL studio and I want to buy your online Courses . Will it still be helpful and effective if I stick to my daw ?
Absolutely yes, they're concept based
Are you still accepting studio pics, my good man?
Where do I submit pics of my studio? 👀
Hello I love your led rhythms visualizer what’s the brand, thank you.
Man you skipped the neve shelford channel in studio 4. Was wondering how you feel about that unit for years and why you dont own it
They are epic. studio 4 had lots of nice gear. Best gear out of all of them, the MBP too. Iove RND gear. Shelford Pair > 5059> MBT > MBP > 5069 is like having a 5088 in miniature form lol
where do I send the pics please
Excellent stuff, David. I'm too scared to send you my set-up.
Where is the submission form?
I think it needs more foam
Are you Italian by any chance?
Hey question
Whats the issue with the warm audio 2 bus comp?
n00b here, what's wrong with foam?
Foam does absolutely nothing other than blunting reflections of high frequencies. Does nothing for anything below probably 1K and also the way it absorbs it's not ideal because it sucks out too much in that high range. Never use foam
Besides what David said, Studio foam will leave your room dark and muddy-sounding. Ideally, you want a flat frequency response from your room's reflections. Studio foam will take you very far from that.
Foam is GREAT, for the inside of a case to protect your gear lol. Foam panels (especially foam ‘bass traps’) is pretty much a scam imo. I’m happy David is so vocal about this!
@@greedokenobi3855great... then I have been scammed😅
This was a cool video. Quick questions, what is it about adam monitors that you dont like?
Light on low end and not so accurate, laser beam tweeter, too directional, too bright
Studio 1: Those ‘foam’ panels look more like diffusor to me.
Studio 6: They looks like 8341 or 8351.
Interesting series. Some great feedback. Learnt a few things. I’m in the process of re-racking and arranging my main ‘mix’ room. Thinking I will change the desk position as I have it against the ling wall in a narrow /long wall like the one you commented about. Thinking about changing it now.
A Diffusor can never be constructed from absorbent material such as foam..
@@ignacedhont9816 nobody said that. But you can buy plastic defusers what look like that pattern, in the same colour as the square items on the side walls. So we’d need the owner to confirm. Vid/photo quality not clear enough to be sure due to light. Vicustic I think is one brand.
What's a good budget for room treatment? 6m by 3m..... Would $3,000 be enough to start with?
Uh that's a really small room, you're gonna have low end issues no matter what but yeah, 3-4K probably. It's gonna also need some software correction as well being that small
@@mixbustv Genelec GLM already here. Yes it is a small room. Just converting a spare room in my house. It is just for mixing. Nothing else. I'll be building a custom building in time to come when I retire and have more time for the hobby :-)... I just booked a professional assessment for next week. Let's see what they say. Within 2 or 3 years I hope to have something more like Studio 4 in your video. That is my retirement hobby target.
@@mixbustvwell…. I’m very deep into the Rabbit hole now. Budget blown just on the back-wall! Strange dimensions of the room make off the shelf units unsuitable so custom made it has to be. Am neck deep in CAD drawings at the moment…. So fk you and all your wisdom! 😂😂😂 (joking of course!, not trolling ha ha)… i’m actually hoping once the room is treated I’ll discover Incan actually mix properly ha ha
Where do I submit photos?
If you were limited to only mix in headphones which pair would you use and why?
Senn hd600 because they're amazing and I know then very well and a pair of Audeze that my friend Erik uses but I don't remember the model. They're in the 1200 USD range EDIT: LCD-X
Hi @MixbusTv, please for the bare wall (i.e the part where your monitors, screen and other gears are positioned), for someone who's in a rented apartment, can one use a curtain to cover the wall or a thicker material like a duvet?
It's better than nothing but not really efficient, you could use gobos they're mobile
Top tip. Use command strips to stick them to the wall. They won’t make holes or leave any marks. The more
Expensive ones hold lots of KGS just use whole pack and you’ll be grand.
Was making a comment about how most people spend everything on gear and do not bother with the most important part of the monitoring system, the acoustics, in relation to studio 4 and then you see the back shot where he has really good acoustics but nothing in the front or side???? where did this person get his acoustic information from? a clip about the back walls and then didn't research anything else?
studio 3 sorry
You’re right. In my case, I spent a lot of money on gear before hammering out more important areas just because there’s a lot of things I can’t control with the current space I’m working with, and I know for a fact that I’m going to have to pack all this stuff up and move it in the next six months. I also just know my room well enough to work around it for now but it is frustrating.
I’m in same boat. Knew the space would not be forever so piled up on the gear. Not going to go overboard on treatments though as it will all be a compromise in current space. Planning to build a purpose made space with treatments built into the fabric of the building. I.e 2m deep traps 😂. Then have a pair of 8381s and a hoverboard to travel between racks lol
🙌🙌🙌🙌
Anybody know how the ferrofish pulse 16 compares to the black lion audio revolution exp 8x8? I need 8 channels for hardware insert setup to make my rig hybrid and I've heard good things about the black lion as far as the clocking and conversion goes, which one??...
bro hates warm audio?
Which DA converter with most accurate monitoring would you recommend for mixing / mastering on headphones with no hardware ?
Was thinking about Lynx Hilo 2
Thanks
Not a fan of the Hilo, if you want a compact I'd go for RME ADI-2 pro
@@mixbustv Alright ty, can I ask why you dislike it ?