Home Studio Know-How: The Room & Acoustics
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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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Reviews
Submitted 1 month ago
This helped a lot
Definitely helped up understand the process of getting a room treated
I am a: Hobbyist, Musician, Producer, Audio Engineer, Sound for Film/TV, Cubase
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Submitted 9 months ago
Good series
This is great. Lots of good explanations, and suggestions.
I am a: Hobbyist, Semi-Pro, Musician, Audio Engineer, Pro Tools
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Submitted 9 months ago
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.
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Submitted 10 months ago
helpful
could have used a bigger studio room as an example
Response from Customer Service:
We worked with the author to choose a room that best reflected the room someone working on their personal projects would use to create a home studio. We feel the Home Studio Know-How series is a good representation of the average home studio.
Glad you found the tutorial helpful!
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Submitted 10 months ago
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
I am a: Hobbyist, Musician, Producer, Audio Engineer, Studio One
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Submitted 10 months ago
cool info
It made me realize that I did my whole studio the wrong way.
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Submitted 10 months ago
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.
Response from Customer Service:
We do appreciate your feedback and will take it all into consideration with our continued product development.
See you on the site!
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Submitted 11 months ago
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
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Submitted 11 months ago
Best tutorial!!!
This is THE BEST tutorial on acoustics I've ever seen!!!
Ease of Use Quality of Videos Value of Training Access to Videos
Submitted 11 months ago
Knowledge with no faffing around! Cheers
This helped in preparing my (limited) space for recording/mixing.
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Reviews
Submitted 1 month ago
This helped a lot
Definitely helped up understand the process of getting a room treated
I am a: Hobbyist, Musician, Producer, Audio Engineer, Sound for Film/TV, Cubase
Submitted 9 months ago
Good series
This is great. Lots of good explanations, and suggestions.
I am a: Hobbyist, Semi-Pro, Musician, Audio Engineer, Pro Tools
Submitted 9 months ago
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.
Submitted 10 months ago
helpful
could have used a bigger studio room as an example
Response from Customer Service:
We worked with the author to choose a room that best reflected the room someone working on their personal projects would use to create a home studio. We feel the Home Studio Know-How series is a good representation of the average home studio.
Glad you found the tutorial helpful!
Submitted 10 months ago
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
I am a: Hobbyist, Musician, Producer, Audio Engineer, Studio One
Submitted 10 months ago
cool info
It made me realize that I did my whole studio the wrong way.
Submitted 10 months ago
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.
Response from Customer Service:
We do appreciate your feedback and will take it all into consideration with our continued product development.
See you on the site!
Submitted 11 months ago
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
Submitted 11 months ago
Best tutorial!!!
This is THE BEST tutorial on acoustics I've ever seen!!!
Submitted 11 months ago
Knowledge with no faffing around! Cheers
This helped in preparing my (limited) space for recording/mixing.
1. When did you start dabbling in music?
I've been a musician since a very early age starting with playing the trumpet, guitar, bass, and piano. Not the drums though, my brother got those genes. I am an excellent finger drummer though to say the least!
2. What training have you had?
For formal training I took regular music lessons in grade school and high school which were fortified with training from private tutors. After school I joined the Army band and went through the Army School of Music as well. I'd like to say that most of what I've learned though came through experience and having hands-on opportunities.
3. When did you get into recording?
During my stay in the Army I was the live sound manager. I loved operating the mixing board but I loathed the 'live' environment. I truly enjoyed making things sound great but I didn't like the fact that there is so little room for error in the live setting. I had wished for more time to invest in being able to make something that sounds ok, turn into something phenomenal. I started by recording our Army band performances on a Yamaha AW1600 for fun, but really enjoyed that I could capture that moment then take my time to make it sound amazing without having to worry about the crowd booing. The rest is history!
4. People you have worked with/for?
A few musical highlights have been running live sound for the President of the US, and doing some on the side tech work for the band Dope. I also was able to work with Virus on one of his side projects. Over the years though my focus has been mainly in customer service and tech, so I've talked with thousands of industry professionals on a daily basis which have truly been too numerous to name individually.
5. Why are you so good at training people?
Growing up I always felt that I spent a lot of time training myself how to do things, but oddly enough I always thought I'd never make a great teacher even though I'm a geek through and through. In the early part of my career I turned down so many opportunities to teach music and engineering. I think part of that came with my own insecurity of not having the formal education that society tells us that we need to succeed. It took a lot of time, practice, and personal education to get me past that hump of feeling confident in trusting that what I taught myself was legit. I've finally reached a point where I feel like I have a lot to offer in terms of knowledge, but most of it has come through investing the time with having the hands on experience that not even formally educated people get sometimes. I truly believe the best way to learn something is to get your hands on it and immerse yourself in every little detail. Groove 3 is a great avenue to be able to share that knowledge.
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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.