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STUDIO ACOUSTICS MONITORING TO INSULATION PERFECT SOUND FOR EVERY STUDIO • Desktop and home studios are, in most cases, anything but acoustically optimal, which makes an objective evaluation of a mix extremely difficult. How can the most common acoustic problems, such as reflections, be dealt with? How can weaknesses in the room be found? In this special, we will not only show you how to optimize your room acoustics, but also which monitoring solutions are best suited to the room and your workflow and how modules and speakers are ideally placed.

The Most Important Tools for the Best Sound • To start with, we would like to discuss a myth that has been haunting the forums of this world for a long time. "Absorbers can be used to isolate rooms." True to the phrase: "That's how you get along with the neighbors". But to achieve good sound insulation, other solutions are needed. Expensive room-in-room systems are the right solution here, but if you want to achieve optimal room acoustics to improve recordings and mixes, you should read this article.

The Sum of all Parts Studio Acoustics is not Magic • Things like room sizes, wall material, room modes, reflections and the resulting standing waves can be easily explained in theory; however, it is rather the sum of the factors that makes it a complex subject. Fortunately, there are professionals for such cases that you can ask. We talked to Lukas Rimbach from GIK Acoustics about his workflow in optimizing studios and got some helpful tips.

Pro-Insights: The Thing About the Low End Stop the Rumors! • You start building a house with the foundation; the same applies to room acoustics. Room modes cause problems which partly affect the whole frequency spectrum. It is only when we get the bass range under control that we can really listen in a room in a reasonable way. The range above 200 Hz is quite easy to handle. Below that, it is much more difficult… Bass absorption is also the issue on which many commercial products fail. Partly because of wrong materials and partly because of dimensions that are too small. So what is the best way to approach the topic in a room?

Talking with Kevin Zuccaro Monitoring in Studio • When it comes to sound in the studio, damping elements and acoustic optimization are only half the story. After all, what good is the best preparation if the speakers simply do not sound good in the end or are even placed in the wrong position? We met with Fluid Audio founder and developer Kevin Zuccaro and learned a lot about monitoring.

Hands-On: Acoustic Treatment, Part 1 How to Calibrate Your Studio correctly • If you want to take your studio, and with it your mixes, to the next level, the acoustic optimization of the listening position is an extremely important component. Based on the acoustic treatment of a project studio, which was realized mainly with panels from Browne Acoustics, we show you which steps are necessary and what exactly has to be taken care of.

Hands-On: Acoustic Treatment, Part 2 Optimization with Insulation Elements • After we learned the basics of room acoustic elements in Part 1 and measured...