[Dream] Calibrating tempers?

[klapton]

phile wrote:
> 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 :)
>   
I found some egg-crate type anti-static foam pieces for free that have 
worked well for decoupling speakers from the desk.

Speaking of room acoustics... if your room happens to be generally 
square, would it be better to setup your mixing space facing out from 
the corner of the room?  Would that help to spread the number of 
standing waves across the frequency spectrum to give a flatter perceived 
response?