mfreak wrote:
How do you treat a room to make it ideal for mixing and listening? Do
you ideally want to stop ALL reflection and reverberation? Ie a
completely dead room, or do you just want to tone it down a little?

You don't want it dead. You might want it more dead or more live, depending
on the music and tastes.

You don't want discrete reflections. When you clap your hands, the sound
should die out gradually and you should never hear discrete slapback. And
you want the sound to die out at about the same rate for all frequencies.

I have a room in my basement that has 2 poured concrete walls on the
left and back, drywall on the front, and wide open to a large rec-room
on the right. The floor is concrete, and the ceiling is about 9 feet
high, with exposed floor joists supporting the 1st floor.

What are some simple things I can do to make this room as good as
possible? Carpet? Frame/drywall over the concrete walls? Put in a
drop ceiling, drywall ceiling, other? I heard parallel walls are bad,
they bounce sound back and forth or something? I am planning on
finishing the basement, so any suggestions would be great. Thanks,

Run out right now and get a copy of F. Alton Everest's book on small
studio acoustics. There is an awful lot you can do.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."