Hear the difference: Untreated Vs Treated Room Acoustics

What is the difference acoustic treatments really make on a space? See for yourself in this video where we test the same room with and without treatment using a variety of sound sources and styles.

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"There’s a lot of practical reasons why people acoustically treat their rooms. It makes recording and mixing music easier. It can make it easier to concentrate, work or study, and it can drastically improve the experience of listening to music and movies.

I could list off more reasons why you might want to treat your room, but the best way to illustrate why is to show you the difference it makes on a common-sized room for critical listening and Professional Audio purposes.
The room we’re working with is 17” by 13” with ceilings just shy of eight feet. We’ll set up the speakers along a short wall and set the listening position so it forms an equilateral triangle with the speakers.

Let’s run the room Eq wizard and see what we get.

Right away we can see we’ve got some pretty big peaks and nulls. If we take a look at the waterfall graph we can clearly see the fall off from the lingering echo in the room.

Let's throw some basic treatment into the room and see what we get.

For this room we’re using 242’s for the first reflections on the walls and ceiling. In the corners we’ve stacked two impression series tri-traps per corner. The front wall has a nice 4inch art panel and for the back wall I’ve got 6 monsters. There’s also some 4 inch art panels along the side walls.
This new test shows a drastic improvement in the frequency response especially in the 100Hz to 200hHz range with the untreated peaks and nulls now being smoothed out. Room EQ wizard is a great tool for identifying what specific frequencies are causing issues.

From here we can determine what kind of treatment we’d need to improve the frequency response even further.

We could get a flatter response in the bass tones by using thicker panels for our first reflections or by treating the horizontal corners of the room with bass traps.

Looking at the waterfall graph we can see a steeper falloff representing less echo.

It’s easy to see when we compare graphs that the treatment had a positive effect on the room, but how does it sound?

Here’s a test playing back music in the same room before and after treatment.

It’s easy to hear the reflections blend notes together in the untreated room making the playback sound muddy.

Again here’s the same room with a simple recording test.

Just as with the playback test, individual notes are much clearer in the treated room without the reflections bouncing into the mic. These improvements are most noticeable in the high energy bass frequencies. Without proper bass treatment it would be impossible to cut a mix without having to test it across multiple sound systems.

With a thorough GIK treatment you can be confident that your mix is accurate and we have the tools and knowhow to guide you through every step of the process, so if you need help testing and treating your room visit our website where you can find articles, videos, and tools that’ll help you get the best sound in your space."

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