Cube Room: How to make it work - AcousticsInsider.com

[@MarkusGuhe]

Interesting video as always! How about one on rooms with sloped roofs? (Can you imagine why I'm suggesting this? 😁)

[@bvcddgtzuii520]

You answer every question i have..best room acoustics Channel!i would Love to Work for Simeone Like you.

[@trentlanning2111]

Enjoy your channel. Learned a lot! I have a 12 x 12 x 12 dedicated listening room, not a studio. Does most of what you teach translate to just listening? What about moving the listening position closer to the rear wall instead of the front wall and listening mid field?

[@Vocalisto]

I've bought some very big an expensive Genelec 8361a Speakers as well as the little 8320's and I'm in a very small room 483 x 443 x 250 cm. I've got a big desk in front of me 200 x 100 cm big. The big Genelecs are on Speaker Stands behind the Desk and close to the front Wall. Stereo Triangle is 170cm. The little 8320's are on my Desk on Desktop Stands with a Stereo Triangle of just 83cm. You've totally made clear to me now why the little Genelecs works better in this Szenario than the big and expensive 8361. But anyway I'm looking for a bigger Room that I can rent just for Studio Purpose where I can fit the big Genelecs better in. But it's hard to find someting here in Germany

[@swingsetsounds7983]

Hey! Randomly commenting here. Wish yt had a messenger built in. Anyways, I know short videos are great for various reasons but I'm sure I'm not the only one that likes long in depth videos too. It's nice to put a video on while walking or doing random things and not have to keep choosing another video.

[@JonathanWesleyMusic]

Wow! This was sooooo needed! Thank YOU!!

[@DBB427]

I think the trouble with having a small, square, less than optimal studio, is it’s likely the one room for everything. My 12x12 room has many instruments and cases, e drums, full 88keys, in addition to storing my live gear - it is surprisingly less cluttered than you would think. So having the desk in the prime listening position, at least in my case, means sacrificing useable space. Which, in turn, means no room to record. It’s already a little claustrophobic when a couple people come to lay down some tracks.... Also, if you’re like me, a small desk doesn’t accommodate outboard gear in a way that is conducive a fast and creative work flow. If I was just mixing or podcasting, real estate would be much less of an issue. My room is heavily treated, but has some serious low end issues - as to be expected. It is, however, live able. I think good advice from an artists perspective is to know your room. If you know you have a certain frequency issue, you know not to trust your monitors in that range. After many many hours of listening to mixes on other rooms on other systems, I kinda know where to eq based on how it sounds in my room. I know everyone wants the perfect room and sound, but if you’re on a small budget, remember to focus on what you DO have, and keep the creative process going! I know the concept of this channel is to obtain the best possible room sound, but thought I would give my take from an artists stand point - creativity trumps all.

[@sudd3660]

i got a small cube room, its so close to a perfect cube it is silly. i do not think it sound so bad after all, did a slow frequency sweep and my speakers are flat from 20khz to 200hz, and below that i have issues, but still manageable with some eq. think it helps that walls are able to flex, so i dont get bass nulls or peaks i can't handle. but i can't ever get a hifi sounding room with good acoustics and beneficial reflection. but i can absorb much of the sound and get a pleasant studio sound to things.

[@audioprotaro1338]

great advice

[@From_A_Diverging_Timeline]

Nice video. Just found your channel. I'm a musician who's getting into home recording.

[@sgoogz]

Thanks! What about a diagonal setup? I've set my room at an angle, which is not symmetrical but it seems to have made a good difference in measurements to get rid of certain huge peaks.

[@MrOnesession]

kommt zur richtigen Zeit

[@pianodiaryofficial]

That feeling when your whole room is a big null and there's bass only in the very corners

[@YuriDeryous]

Hey Jesco, I am about to treat my square room and I didn't even knew it was such a difficult space to work with. I intend to cover 100% of the walls with high density rock wool (no individual pannels, I will literally cover the walls entirely), set up bass traps from floor to ceilling on all 4 corners and add a cloud right above my listening position. In this case there will be virtually no reflection points in any of the walls and very little on the ceilling, do you think this is enough to remedy the problem with the squareness of the room?

[@spaceraverz4326]

and what about having the listening position near the rear wall instead of near the front one ?

[@pecacartun]

Just rotate the setup by 180° :D

[@bitteti]

I was going to ask the same. I don’t see much difference in the sound in comparison to the front wall, but sitting back I can have a bigger table (and speakers?). Of course I compromise the whole room but I think it better... what do you think?

[@MellowXBrew]

Similar results though just be careful of the measurements cause your speakers won’t be firing in the room. They’ll be firing towards the wall which will have mid frequency effects. Anything below 100 Hz won’t really change much since those frequencies pretty much resonate the “room” and omnidirectional

[@chafaisimo]

Dude I Love your Channel ! It helps so much !!! Thank's for sharing your knowledge !

[@jtwidz]

I'm a little confused on the speaker recommendation. In previous videos you basically said choose the biggest speaker you can fit. If you're 2-3' from the front wall you could still fit a speaker with a 8" woofer lets say it just would be close to you. Is this recommendation about two way speakers not converging at that distance (for which you could go with a concentric design e.g. Tannoys etc?) or something else? Thanks for the great content as always Jesco!

[@musikamusika1736]

I'm confused about this too, hope he addresses this.

[@DerekSmyth]

I’ve got a cubed room and did some measurements and treatment. Would u be able to look at the after measurements and see if it’s disaster or what I should do.

[@frankygmusic6179]

hey bro, nice video. what about irregular rooms. My room is like a cube but with a small cube attached. so like L-shaped cube but 'L' is way smaller than the main room but only like an entrance to the main cube room

[@SnrKappi]

Hi Jesco, I have a similar room to what Franky has just described. Would be great to hear your feedback on this type of room. My rooms a little smaller than what you described in your video but I do use the Neumann KH120’s. Thanks

[@Allplaysful]

BRAVO! thx

[@dixilla]

What about setting up the listening position in the corner?

[@swingdash]

Hi Jesco, What is your opinion on setting up a cube room in a diagonal listening position? So that is having the setup in one corner of the room outwards diagonally, I have been researching the Cardas technique, but i am unsure if this is more of a listening configuration, rather than studio monitoring

[@jealimusic]

I have the kali in-8 do you think they are too big for my room? Its 14' by 16' and 10' ceiling I found a really nice spot but I am like 4 feet from them they sound awesome to me

[@maddmarkmusic]

Now where will i put the treatment?

[@felixm.8910]

Okay, I get the idea, but what about a sub-sat-systeme where one would use the rule of thirds for the left and right speaker (listening position and speaker position a third of the rooms length away from the front- and back wall respectively) and then get the stereo triangle going according to that ear-to-speaker-distance. And move the sub to the accoustically right spot in the room. Is that a feasible way of doing it? Or am I missing something here? Would one need a lot more diffusion in the back of the listening-position? Or is that not something that would benefit me in this specific scenario?

[@markgueren9633]

My cube room works well for me.. trial and error worked for me… yes small desk…yes small monitors…yes treatment…lol..

[@B3AR000]

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[@qiuz51]

I followed the basshunter technique and found (as you predicted in the video) a very compact equilateral triangle. To make it work I ended up with my speakers directly against the front wall. Is that OK? I’ve heard some people say it’s fine, and others say it’s a disaster.

[@lostlostdance]

What is basshunter technique?

[@RaviRomana]

I have a 11×12×11(h) room. what should I do?

[@From_A_Diverging_Timeline]

Watch the video

[@purpleheart69420]

Im actually really scared, cuz Ive heard people saying that in squared room theres phasing issues, flutter echo etc, and Im a noobie so I probably wouldnt even notice :(

[@kablah19]

So if my room is smaller, 10’ by 10’ by 8’ high, would the “close to the wall” concept become less than 2-3 feet or more than 2-3 feet? How are you calculating that? Or is the 2-3 feet thing just from experience?

[@pecacartun]

I think that the main goal is to avoid putting the listening position right on the main axial room modes, for all of the three dimensions - Lenght, Width, and Height...

[@kablah19]

@@pecacartun yeah I get that, but I’m still wondering about my specific question..

[@shaunbowden5993]

@@kablah19 My room is the same size as yours. I put my listening spot approx 120cm from the wall. You're supposed to put it a third of the length of the size of the room. I'm going to move it forward slightly and then add some panels.

[@kablah19]

@@shaunbowden5993 I see.. where did you get the “1/3 of the length of your room” from? I’ve always heard 38% of the length of your room for the listening position.

[@shaunbowden5993]

@@kablah19 Here... kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6WqiHyfoZh3b5o Very good video and great channel that mate.

[@daltonroperez9296]

Cubeee Roooms

[@jcisme]

I had a 12'x12'x10' double brick room.. It sounded horrible.. I sold the house :-)

[@ramana3sankar]

I have only 8x8x8 room what to do please help me

[@ramana3sankar]

For recording studio

[@franktriton6874]

what about a triangle shaped room?

[@wadimek116]

Got 4x4x2.8 room. Its disgusting and awful. Terrible even with 50cm square bass traps in each corner bass just kills everything at 44hz. Resonance is +15db and in perfect position its possible to listen but if you move just 10cm foward or back it breaks. Im honestly slowly running out of options. I don't think any bass traps will help at this point

[@rapyourbeat9997]

What is this

[@marcelosuarez3027]

you talk about 12 feet being really small, the room i HAVE to work from is 9'x9'x8.5', is it simply impossible?

[@shaunbowden5993]

No i think you've got to work out the right listening spot and then set up your speakers