[Dream] Calibrating tempers?

[phile]

Hi Spork,

sorry for the late reply but work got kinda crazy...

>Are you saying that my perception of the bass shouldn't change, no
>matter where I position myself relative to the speakers?

nah, man, That would be impossible especially with a nearfields and in
an untreated room. However it will show you how bad you rroom is since
you have such major swings in how it's heard. Taking the furniture out
would actually be the oposite of what you should be doing. The more
furniture you put in the room the more low frequency absortpion you
will have. Put more in as a matter of fact -- get a friend to help you
-- sit in the mixing position the way you would ... urr... when mixing
:) and have a friend hold a mirror to the walls around on your head
level and if you can see either of the monitors in the mirror you
should put something in that spot on the wall -- this technique is
primarily for reflections (i.e. higher frequency spectre) but also
helps for bass buildup. Also make sure you put something behind the
monitors (I imagine you have them on something and not directly on
your desk for decoupling purposes, otherwise your whole desk can
resonate and increase you perception of the bass representation. Also
it does matter the monitors -- your have lf trims and room
comppensations -- play with those ... try that before trying an eq on
your master. Also the layout of the room is important if you would
share that it would help think in the right direction for a solution
:) (i.e. room 4m x 5m, I am on the short/long side, monitors are about
20cm from the wall behind them and there is 1.2m to mix position and
3.6m behind and there is a big window on my left and a wardrobe to my
right .... as an example :) )

Man we're not talking about pro acoustics but poor man's solutions ...
While buying a mantion is definitely preferable since your quality of
life prolly will go up (except for cleaning pruposes if you don't have
staff) it's definitely not a solution we're talking about -- or in
other words while being sufficient it's not a neccessary condition
heheheheh :P ...like ... uu... heheh ... put phone books under your
monitors for decoupling :P if you don't want to spend $29 on auralex
mopads :P Btw, soundproofing and acoustic treatment are totally
different things and can be independant of each other -- i.e. you can
make you room acoustically correct to some extend without doing
anything about proofing it :)