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    This document provides tips for improving your listening environment and setting up studio monitors. It recommends placing the listening position between 25-75% of the room length to avoid standing waves that interfere with frequency response. Speakers should be at least 12 inches from walls and away from corners to reduce low frequency reinforcement. When setting up monitors, make sure they are angled correctly and equidistant from the listening position to create a well-defined stereo field. Mounting monitors on isolation stands provides a smoother frequency response than placing them directly on surfaces. Check monitor settings and volume levels to ensure an accurate mix.

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    This document provides tips for improving your listening environment and setting up studio monitors. It recommends placing the listening position between 25-75% of the room length to avoid standing waves that interfere with frequency response. Speakers should be at least 12 inches from walls and away from corners to reduce low frequency reinforcement. When setting up monitors, make sure they are angled correctly and equidistant from the listening position to create a well-defined stereo field. Mounting monitors on isolation stands provides a smoother frequency response than placing them directly on surfaces. Check monitor settings and volume levels to ensure an accurate mix.

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    This document provides tips for improving your listening environment and setting up studio monitors. It recommends placing the listening position between 25-75% of the room length to avoid standing waves that interfere with frequency response. Speakers should be at least 12 inches from walls and away from corners to reduce low frequency reinforcement. When setting up monitors, make sure they are angled correctly and equidistant from the listening position to create a well-defined stereo field. Mounting monitors on isolation stands provides a smoother frequency response than placing them directly on surfaces. Check monitor settings and volume levels to ensure an accurate mix.

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    This document provides tips for improving your listening environment and setting up studio monitors. It recommends placing the listening position between 25-75% of the room length to avoid standing waves that interfere with frequency response. Speakers should be at least 12 inches from walls and away from corners to reduce low frequency reinforcement. When setting up monitors, make sure they are angled correctly and equidistant from the listening position to create a well-defined stereo field. Mounting monitors on isolation stands provides a smoother frequency response than placing them directly on surfaces. Check monitor settings and volume levels to ensure an accurate mix.

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    1 - Improving Your Listening Environment

    Determining the listening position


    -The place that provides the best acoustic performance will almost always come
    from setting up lengthwise in the room. It’s easier to avoid problems that come
    with room reflections that can interfere with the rooms frequency response.
    -the frequency response of the room is the way the room responds to the high,
    mid and low frequencies. You want an even balance of these frequencies.
    -Without getting into too many technicalities, every room suffers from reflections
    that reinforce at the 50% point of the room, and then diminish at the 25% and 75%
    points. That means if you sit halfway in the room, one frequency may be
    extremely loud, whereas it’ll be non existent in the 25% and 75% of the room.
    -For example, in a typical room with a 12-foot length, the standing wave will be 47
    Hz, which is determined by the formula of 1130 feet per second, which is the
    speed of sound, divided by the 12-foot length of the room, times 2. That means 47
    Hz will evenly bounce back and forth in the room.
    -As a result, you want to place both the speakers and listening positions
    somewhere in between 25%, 50%, and 75% of the room and a point that's an odd,
    non-divisible number, like 27, 38, or 45%.
    -Many acoustics designers feel that the 38% point is the best spot.

    Fixing acoustics problems


    -avoid placing speakers against the wall. Absolute minimum of 12 inches away
    from the wall.
    -avoid corners of the room. Will reinforce the low end.
    -avoid different types of wall absorption. If you have different surfaces, you’ll have
    unbalanced stereo image. One side will sound brighter than the other.

    Setting up monitors
    -check distance between monitors. Too close together, and the stereo field will
    lack definition. Too far apart, the focal point or ‘sweet spot’ will be too far behind
    your head and you’ll hear the left or right spot individually, but not together. The
    rule of thumb is that the speakers should be as far apart from each other as
    their listening position. If your position is 4 ft away, put them 4 ft. apart. In
    general, 67.5 inches apart is the standard distance.
    -check the angle. Not having them angled right is a major factor of stereo
    smearing, which is a major cause of lack of instrument definition in the mix. The
    focal point is the angle at which the sound of the tweeters converge. The correct
    angle is a matter of taste, but a good rule of thumb is that an angle of thirty
    degrees where it’s focused 18 inches behind the listeners head is the best
    angle. A good trick is to place a mirror behind each tweeter, and adjust the
    speakers so that your face appears in both mirrors.
    -best to mount your monitors on stands behind the meter bridge of your console
    or behind the desk. Gives a much smoother frequency response. Monitors that are
    placed directly on the desk or meter bridge without any isolation are subject to low
    frequency cancellation. This is because the sound travels through the desk or
    console first before it reaches your ears. If you have ti place them on a desk or
    console, place them on a 1/2” or 3/4” of open cell neoprene, a thick mouse pad or
    two or something like the prime acoustic recoil stabilizers.
    -check how the monitor parameters are set. Be sure that they are set correctly for
    the application it’s being used for. Set up the speakers the way the manual says
    to (laid open its side or standing up straight).

    Other notes
    -make sure volume is set up correctly
    -when recording, make it sufficiently loud to hear all the frequencies. But make
    sure to not turn it up too much as it can affect hearing, lead to fatigue quicker, mix
    can come out sounding limp
    -most engineers work at multiple levels of volume

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