Audio Fundamentals Tutorial
Home Studio Know-How: The Room & Acoustics
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12 Videos | Length:
1hr 33min 24sec
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3:31 Introduction
Welcome to Home Studio Know How! In this series we’ll be learning all about the importance of acoustics and our listening environment.
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6:28 Sound Wave Basics
Let’s look at some of the basic anatomy of a sound waves and learn about some of the most fundamental physical principles.
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3:37 The Energy of Sound
Here we’ll quickly explore a few more physical principles that will play an important part in how we hear sound, resonance and reflection.
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5:34 The Speakers
Let’s explore the construction of what creates our sound, the speaker. Learn more about how the speaker emits sound and interacts with our listening environment.
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11:51 The Listening Position
Discover the golden ratios that help us set up the perfect and ideal listening position. When ideal situations aren’t available, use what we’ve learned to create the most ideal set up.
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10:39 The Room Pt. 1
Now that we’ve learned the basics about sound waves, let’s see how waves react in a room, and learn what effect the room has on the sound that we hear coming from our speakers.
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6:55 The Room Pt. 2
In this video we’ll explore 2 methods of determining the listening position in the room, and discuss a few sacrifices that we may need to make due to space limitations.
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9:20 Acoustic Treatment Pt. 1
Before we can treat our room, we need to first learn to identify common problems in the home studio. Here we’ll get some great tips on locating flutter echo and other common audio issues.
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13:33 Acoustic Treatment Pt. 2
Learn how to properly select, and install acoustic treatment in your room. It’s not as hard as you think!
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5:43 Treating Our Room Pt. 1
In this video, we'll go over some of the testing equipment we use to get a baseline acoustic analysis of our room. We'll also see how to analyze the test results.
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7:29 Treating Our Room Pt. 2
Here we're going to make a plan of attack for improving the sound of our room. We'll start by finding a better location for our speakers and listening position.
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8:44 Treating Our Room Pt. 3
Let's build our own broadband absorbers and bass traps, then we tackle the first order reflections. We smooth our bass response with bass traps and find some intuitive ways to battle resonant frequencies.
Product Overview
Studio professional Dave Askew breaks down the things you need to know for a solid foundational understanding of room acoustics, and how to set up your studio for better sound and mixes!
Dave starts out with why it’s important to have good acoustics in your studio and gives an in-depth overview of the basics of sound.
He then covers over the course of the series, speaker selection and placement, listening positions, understanding your room, acoustical treatment and more.
See the individual tutorial descriptions below for detailed info. If you have a studio, this info is priceless and will make for a better mixing and listening environment and ultimately, better sounding songs and productions. Watch “Home Studio Know-How: The Room & Acoustics” today!
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Home Studio Know-How: The Room & Acoustics is rated out of 5 by
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Rated 5.0 out of
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henrytnk from
Very helpful!
It teaches the basics of acoustic treatment in a very simple way. Must-watch for beginners!
Date published: 2021-07-14
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Ny7 from
Very helpful
It has helped me so much help me so much to understand where where do we have the problem.
Date published: 2021-07-12
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Jugg from
VERY HELPFUL
HE GOT STRAIT TO THE POINT I LOVE IT
Date published: 2021-05-28
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Orlando from
Very Insightful
Extremely useful information covering the fundamentals of how sound works in a space and how to best treat it. Excellent video series.
Date published: 2021-05-25
Rated 4.0 out of
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RafaelFerreira from
Super well explained but nothing about vocal recording treatment
The entire series was super well explained. I give 4 stars because what brought me here was my need of using room acoustics to record vocals and not mixing - vocals are the most important part of any mix and still it is not even mentioned.
Date published: 2021-05-18
Rated 5.0 out of
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Rhythmmman from
Lots of great information.
This video series was extremely helpful. I’m excited to get started implementing the knowledge I learned from these videos. Thank you!
Date published: 2021-05-03
Rated 5.0 out of
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Danijel from
Probably the best tutorial on this topic I've seen!!!!!!
This tutorial clears many questions that I've had. Warm recommendations to all you people out there!
Date published: 2020-11-15
Rated 5.0 out of
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Casey from
Excellent
I have done so much research on this subject and have only been more confused after. This course was great. You explained things Well which made it simple to understand. Thank you!
Date published: 2020-10-28
Rated 5.0 out of
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Andy Mcg from
Excellent!
Really insightful, very informative.
Date published: 2020-10-13
Rated 3.0 out of
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Huncho from
It was ight, goes into super detail about positioning of the room, some good info but to me too much talking
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Date published: 2020-08-08
Rated 4.5 out of
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CinemaX from
Very helpful
I can't wait to apply what i have learned in this videos
Date published: 2020-05-17
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Nonomori from
Wow
This is an incredibly good course. Just enough mathematics and technical detail is included without being overwhelming, and there is so much practical guidance!
Date published: 2020-05-02
Rated 4.5 out of
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KingKarib from
Home Studio Know-How: The Room & Acoustics
Gave me a better understanding of small rom acoustifs,,
Date published: 2020-03-25
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Rodneyangel from
Very Helpful
I gain a lot from this & was very helpful in me achieving what I was looking for
Date published: 2020-03-18
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joseysmess from
Entertaining and you learn
I had fun with this course! He explains things in a simple way and shows you how to set up your room and speakers properly. Which isn't hard to set up and has a huge impact on the sound in your room.
Date published: 2020-02-20
Rated 4.5 out of
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dnkygirl from
Extremely Help Series
I was looking for a way to clean up the sound of my room and I watched a ton of YouTube videos to start. This series really provided the insight and focus I needed to be able to first look at the size of my room, then think about my seating position, as well as plan out where to place panels. This is a must have series for someone wanting to get started with getting better sound in a home studio.
Date published: 2020-01-25
Rated 4.5 out of
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Rouzi from
Very Very good for getting started
Very very fast and right to the point. I had a lot of fun watching it. But, I somehow missed on the professional stuffs a bit. maybe a pro series as well? ;)
Date published: 2019-12-02
Rated 4.0 out of
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ktr1971 from
Great!
Great, but would have been even better if metric units were used. Inches and feet are so stone-aged :-D
Date published: 2019-11-17
Rated 4.5 out of
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Jorge Pluto from
Thorought explanation of acoustic treatment!
The presentation provides in-depth instructions on how to treat troublesome frequencies, but the content is still accessible and explained in layman's terms. This presentation is geared towards the home studio producer. Presentation could have included information on ideal sub-woofer placement.
Date published: 2019-08-15
Rated 5.0 out of
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dbsn2420 from
Very Helpful foundation!
Great information to apply prior to getting started in recording, mixing, and Mastering.
Date published: 2019-08-04
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Big Bru from
Just what the doctor ordered.
Very well done.
Date published: 2019-07-21
Rated 5.0 out of
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KA from
So much detailed information!!!
The video series was awesome really provided great detail to treating a room in a very understandable way.
Date published: 2019-06-29
Rated 4.5 out of
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GG31 from
Very good
informative
Date published: 2019-06-08
Rated 4.5 out of
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Room and Acoustics from
Very Helpful
very good overview of physical sound characteristics and use for studio
Date published: 2019-05-10
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Rook from
The Room & Acoustics
Gain better understanding of improving my room
Date published: 2019-04-22
Rated 4.5 out of
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Toslin from
Very healp full
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Date published: 2019-04-22
Rated 3.0 out of
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ewilloyd from
Looks like a lot of hassle
Okay if you have plenty of time and motivation to see this through. Would be nice if there was a simpler method even if the end results were less effective.
Date published: 2019-03-15
Rated 4.5 out of
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Geemil from
Home Studio Know-How - very informative.
Although I haven't had the time to watch all of the videos, I have been able to pick up quite a few bits of information to help improve my future recordings.
Due to the limited spare time I have, I feel I cannot give a fully accurate rating of ALL the videos which make up the course but if they are all of the same level as the first two, I will be very happy with them.
I have purchased other videos from Groove and found them exceptionally good - otherwise I would not have purchased any further items!!
Keep up the great work and the sooner you have video tutorials on Magix Samplitude, the better for me.
Date published: 2019-03-03
Rated 5.0 out of
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Maybrick from
This helped a lot
Definitely helped up understand the process of getting a room treated
Date published: 2018-12-06
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jgold707 from
Good series
This is great. Lots of good explanations, and suggestions.
Date published: 2018-05-05
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ra from
very good
One of my personal favorites because its probably the single most important thing in audio to learn. Im still captivated by it. will probably watch it again.
Date published: 2018-04-13
Rated 3.0 out of
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J1 from
helpful
could have used a bigger studio room as an example
Date published: 2018-03-26
Rated 3.5 out of
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Mick from
Good Insight
A great overview but I think a crucial element is missing in the section towards the end on treatment. It would help if the density and thickness of treatments were explored - these are the first aspects a home user has to consider, especially when building DIY panels
Date published: 2018-03-25
Rated 4.5 out of
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martinvass from
cool info
It made me realize that I did my whole studio the wrong way.
Date published: 2018-03-22
Rated 3.0 out of
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gtrmn8 from
Doesn't name each item to purchase for the DIY kit, and buries it at the end of one of the later videos.
I am a technical writer, a film and game composer, guitarist, and film score seminar instructor. In general, I really hate the software tutorials and their instructors on Groove3. I don't mean they're bad guys. But nothing they do is concise. Take this Dave Askew course, for instance: Did he give you the prerequisites for building the DIY kit in the first video? No. Did he even tell you specifically what each material to purchase was called? No. These instructors ramble on. Every series could be a fraction of its length. Don't ramble at the start of every video. Don't tell me what video we were previously on. I know what we were just on because I was just on it, and I can read the module titles. Don't tell me ok we're back, because I know we're back. Don't give me unnecessary language, like "so", "and um uh". If you know your material well enough, you should be able to narrow down everything to a concise series of steps required to achieve the end goals. Don't give me a 10 minute fluff video. Just give me procedural steps and show me on-video how to perform them in real time. I don't mean to pick on Askew only, because many of the DAW and DAW-related tutorials on Groove3 and *name removed* are long-winded. However, this was just highly unacceptable: He doesn't tell you specifically how to make each acoustic treatment, nor does he give you the names of each material to purchase, nor does he give you this information up front as a prerequisite. These people don't really know how to teach. If you can't do it concisely, you don't really know what you're doing.
The positive aspect of this tutorial is that he does explain acoustic concepts and makes it simple for a layman to understand. However, if the title of the series is "Home Studio Know-How", and you don't walk me through how to build it at home and exactly what materials to build it with, then either there's a hole in your head or you got lazy.
The positive aspect of this tutorial is that he does explain acoustic concepts and makes it simple for a layman to understand. However, if the title of the series is "Home Studio Know-How", and you don't walk me through how to build it at home and exactly what materials to build it with, then either there's a hole in your head or you got lazy.
Date published: 2018-03-19
Rated 5.0 out of
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Eddie Simon from
Great Helpful Video
I’ve just purchased these video series and have started watching them and find they are very informative and helpful and professionally done. No doubt this will help take my music mixing and mastering to the highest level
Date published: 2018-03-01
Rated 5.0 out of
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Cyrille from
Best tutorial!!!
This is THE BEST tutorial on acoustics I've ever seen!!!
Date published: 2018-02-27
Rated 4.5 out of
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Alex E from
Knowledge with no faffing around! Cheers
This helped in preparing my (limited) space for recording/mixing.
Date published: 2018-02-24
Rated 5.0 out of
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Mongo from
Practical and Informative!
I brought the series up just to get some information about monitor placement and ended up watching the whole thing. Everything was presented very well. Nice balance of introductory information and what to do with that information.
Date published: 2018-02-14
Rated 4.0 out of
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Matrix from
Very helpful
Truly it's a amazing video program explaining everything in a very practical manner.
Date published: 2018-01-12
Rated 5.0 out of
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synclab from
Most informative and helpful.
The fact that this course takes you through all the steps necessary to understand the basics of the problem is fantastic.
Date published: 2018-01-10
Rated 5.0 out of
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Drey from
Made the concept of sound clearerVery helpful!
Awesome!
Date published: 2017-12-14
Rated 4.5 out of
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Itamar from
Extremely helpful.
I learned a lot from this course and I plan to watch again when I be able to move to a bigger space. Lots of valuable information on how to setup a home studio.
Date published: 2017-11-16
Rated 4.5 out of
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jlscott from
Clear and Helpful
The videos were both clear and helpful, with good explanations about the process of setting up a home studio to minimise issues with unwanted acoustic artifacts.
I would have liked, however, a bit more general coverage instead of the focus on the specific room being treated. Nevertheless, it is possible to take away a number of general tips for treating your own space.
Date published: 2017-11-01
Rated 5.0 out of
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pan2c from
In one word excellent
Simple and to the point. It brings up very good points. Rationale and reason for changes to the room acoustic.
Date published: 2017-10-31
Rated 5.0 out of
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Thomas from
Brilliant for Home Studio Setup
For those familiar with acoustics concepts, worth skipping to the second, practical part, which was great. Several other trainings I have seen focused on the theory stopping short of being hands-on, but I found these tutorials very practical.
Following them helped a lot with thinking about monitor placement, measurements with the calibrated mic wit REW and then locating the most difficult acoustic spots in the room for placing panels resulting in a marked improvement in sound and an amazingly accurate stereo image not possible without treatment.
Date published: 2017-10-30
Rated 5.0 out of
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Luis Che from
Easy to understand!
I wish I had seen this course before I treated my room, it would have saved me a lot of time and hair from scratching my head so much!.
I will use what I learned here to check on what I did and hopefully make my studio sound even better!.
Date published: 2017-09-22
Rated 5.0 out of
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Danielology from
Great examples
It is a great course for home studios that want a better treatment in their room, and not to spend lot of money in acoustic treatment
Date published: 2017-08-30
Rated 5.0 out of
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netcav from
Good practical informotion
This short series on room acoustics provides clear and practical information for the home studio. The graphics are really good and the science is kept simple. Recommended
Date published: 2017-07-31
Rated 5.0 out of
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FredD from
Great review and perspective
Plenty of detail without getting into the weeds.
Date published: 2017-07-25
Rated 4.5 out of
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yann91700 from
Helpful and accessible
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Date published: 2017-07-07
Rated 5.0 out of
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koziolmatol from
It's the best what I've seen!
This course or tutorial is really very, very helpful in understanding what's going on with sound in our home studios, where it goes, how to absorb or diffuse it, a lot of practical calculation and examples. If've seen few videos about that topic, but none of them was so comprehensive. I will definitely go back to it when I will be working on my own acoustic treatment. Highly recommended!!!
Date published: 2017-06-25
Rated 5.0 out of
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yo from
very informative!
terminology explained so well. great for beginners to get their basics right!
Date published: 2017-06-04
Rated 5.0 out of
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KRT from
Very clear and nice
Very clear and useful explanation supported by nice 3D videos that help to visualize how sound behaves in a room.
Well done!
Date published: 2017-06-02
Rated 5.0 out of
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Ciprian from
Very helpfull indeed.
Will put into practice with my next studio refit
Date published: 2017-06-02
Rated 5.0 out of
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jatinacoustic@gmail.com from
excellent
Everything awesomely explained ..kudos
Date published: 2017-05-26
Rated 4.0 out of
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looseway from
The basics explained in a very clear way!
The way of explaining these basics want me to know even more about it. It was very helpful.
Date published: 2017-05-22
Rated 4.5 out of
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StasisRaps from
very helpful
awesome vids
Date published: 2017-05-14
Rated 4.5 out of
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Food produc from
It Was Bery good
it hellps
Date published: 2017-04-26
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Vincec28 from
Very insightful!!
Learning quite a bit from this video series. Learning how to get the best sounding room possible is a topic I'd hope for but never knew existed. Thanks for this!
Date published: 2017-04-25
Rated 5.0 out of
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Chip from
Very Helpful. Recommend to everyone with a home studio.
Very Helpful. Recommend to everyone with a home studio.
Date published: 2017-04-20
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charlysi08 from
Very helpful
This is a wicked video :)
Date published: 2017-04-16
Rated 4.5 out of
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Hayden from
Very helpful
great calculations
Date published: 2017-04-14
Rated 5.0 out of
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stegibson from
Explained simply and well
Real common sense advice from the perspective of the home studio owner with limited budget and technical know how
Date published: 2017-04-12
Rated 5.0 out of
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Ivo Siemonsmeier from
Some very useful and essential tips
I find my room to be pretty good in frequency response. But with these videos I´m able to improve the most important aspect in making music. Reacting to soundwaves. Very revealing and entertaining and very well explained. Great tutorial overall.
Date published: 2017-03-30
Rated 5.0 out of
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TulsaDrummer from
Great info for taming room acoustics in home project studios
I've found this info very encouraging and also realize how many things I've been doing wrong. I think applying some of the principles in these videos will make a huge difference in my listening space.
Date published: 2017-03-30
Rated 5.0 out of
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JPizzle from
So good!
Must watch!
Date published: 2017-03-21
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waap4u from
Wow, where have you been all my mixing life?
I loved the acoustic treatment training. The tutorial was not rocket scientist stuff. It was easy to understand. thanks....
Date published: 2017-03-17
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Cool Breeze 711 from
very helpful
A great lesson in applied physics.
Date published: 2017-03-17
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Delinkant from
excellent
Very informative
Date published: 2017-03-15
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Audios from
Clear explanations and great bedroom (?) example
I thought the explanations were very clear and the animations helped make various points very clear.
The only detailed explanation and animation I wish had been included was how air molecules interact (even in one dimension, i.e. a straight line) and how sound pressure varies as a result, especially at a wall where I believe sound pressure doubles. It's hard to visualize since it's a time-dependent process in which "doubling pressure" means air molecules are alternately being doubly compressed and doubly rarefied as they get squeezed together or sucked apart by a moving speaker cone.(or something like that).
I really, really liked the real world demo in what appears to be a typical small bedroom turned into a music room. Major points for the real world examples of before, during, and after room treatment in a very typical situation.
Date published: 2017-02-26
Rated 5.0 out of
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cfour from
Awesome Information
Very quick & straight to the point - well explained
Date published: 2017-02-19
Rated 5.0 out of
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Brock Jon from
Comprehensive and comprehendable!
As always, great work, Dave. Our rooms are surprisingly similar and I thought I was stuck with a bum setup. This series has shown me the practical and scientific way to make the best of what I have. No doubt it's going to take some work, but based on the results you achieved, I'm sure the difference will be substantial.
Date published: 2017-02-11
Rated 5.0 out of
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dan19460 from
Practical and well paced
I really learned a lot from this course. Nothing too complicated and filled with practical advice for those of us trying to work in a small room like this. I found the last 3 videos showing how he applied the concepts in a real world situation were extremely helpful....even gave me ideas for how to build absorbtion panels. Highly recommended.
Date published: 2017-02-09
Rated 5.0 out of
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Jason from
Great Course !
Great course. Exactly what I needed as an electronic music artist
Date published: 2017-02-06
Rated 5.0 out of
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Magic Fingers from
Excellent Video
Very informative and clear presentation on how to deal with sound in any environment. Most importantly, in a studio environment. I would recommend this video to anyone looking to make their work environment more enjoyable, and with better results when working on projects involving audio.
Date published: 2017-01-25
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the vision field from
Most important and First step in sound!
Great overview of room setup! Some basic physics of sound and room treatment useful for years in just an hour.
Date published: 2017-01-23
Rated 5.0 out of
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Sean from
To the point and highly informative
I loved how descriptive the videos were regarding multiple scenario solutions for different types of room and budgets.
Date published: 2017-01-23
Rated 5.0 out of
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DoctorCalabria from
Good Primer
Covers the basics and is a good starting point for bedroom/garage type studios as well as dedicated entry level studios. Well produced and introduces some basic calculations for setting things up.
Date published: 2017-01-22
Rated 5.0 out of
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alkey372 from
Excellent Content for the Small / Home studio
Direct, practical, scientifically based, and completely USABLE. This content directly addresses my small home studio audio issues. The author's methodology and suggestions interspersed with the basic physic of sound make a compelling watch. Well done!!!
Date published: 2017-01-17
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James Hartley from
Simple explanations of complex issues !
Been having some real issues with bass cancelation and strong reflections in my studio room. This video has really helped me understand more of what's going on with the physics behind it all and how to treat the problems. The teaching is very well explained, yet isn't intense or overbearing... i found it very easy to watch :)
Date published: 2017-01-12
Rated 5.0 out of
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Miro from
Dave, you are genius
This course is just a must for every one of us, home studio guys. And what a fantastic digital graphics based presentations. This is course is (and another one from Groove3.com) all I needed and could not find. Now I understand how the sound works, I know better all the whys and whats.
Dave, you did amazing job and I do not have the words to describe how much you impressed me with this course. Thank you from the heart.
A guy with a square room
Date published: 2017-01-02
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Erik from
What bedroom studio recordists need to know...
Great advice in one package that will educate on making the best of a less than ideal space. The only point I disagree with is advice against room correction software. The Sonarworks and IK multimedia Arc 2 software can definitely help (AFTER doing what is shown in this tutorial) if you're forced to work in a room that's really unsuitable.
Date published: 2017-01-01
Rated 5.0 out of
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Alik from
Great Info
This is the best course for anyone want to do treat his room!
Date published: 2017-01-01
Rated 4.0 out of
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duckman from
Good info but still too theoretical
Good series, but too much on the theoretical side, I miss some good tips on making own panels.
Date published: 2016-12-27
Rated 5.0 out of
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Arib Crisp from
An amazing complete course on acoustics
I liked this course very much, because it touches on the very important aspects of acoustics without getting too complex. I had learned some stuff on social medias and forums about acoustics, but never got anything this brief and so informative.
Date published: 2016-12-27
Rated 5.0 out of
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St Fantabulous from
Really well explained video
Great descriptions of the practical aspect of sound every home studio person needs to know.
Date published: 2016-12-24
Rated 5.0 out of
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Randog Leader from
Great starter course for beginners to intermediate
Covers all the basics as well as some advanced fundamentals for setting up a great sounding control room.
Date published: 2016-12-24
Rated 4.0 out of
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dutchangle from
good introduction to acoustics treatment
this course is an excellent resource for those that want a good head start in setting up a decent home studio.
Date published: 2016-12-24
Rated 5.0 out of
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Starbuckna from
Excellent practical tips
Good introduction to studio design and control. Practical tips and calculations to set up an effective control room in a home environment.
Date published: 2016-12-23
Rated 5.0 out of
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Dwalk from
Must Know Info before setting up your Home Studio!
I wish I had seen this before setting up my studio! I did find the same info but this series explains and makes sense of everything!
Date published: 2016-12-23
Rated 4.0 out of
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Rigo from
Great Practical Advice
Provided some really good, practical, easy to implement suggestions for improving the sound of your listening space that won't break the bank. I tried the Cardas Method as described in this tutorial and noticed a fairly significant difference. I intend to try to incorporate as much of the advice provided as I can. As a side note, the graphics really helped me to visualize the concepts and helped me better understand what was being discussed.
Date published: 2016-12-22