Acoustic Treatment | Get Your LOW END Right First - And It's FREE! Speaker & Monitor Placement

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In this video we discuss monitor placement, and how getting that right is critical to your listening environment before you even start to think about adding acoustic treatment. The bass end is very difficult to get right, so finding the best position for both you and your speakers in the room is key. And moving your speakers around is not only time well spent, but it's FREE!

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[pyrra]

As a poor producer, I just put on my walls some mattresses inside slatted bed boxes and covered each one with a beautiful dark grey-blue cotton fitted sheet. And now my room sounds like a padded room from a psychiatric hospital.

[jonathanbiggs]

This is BY FAR the most accurate and helpful video I have found on this subject. Your passion and professionalism shines through and is clear to see. Greatly appreciated and I wish I’d started here as I’ve wasted a lot of time and energy. Kudos and thank you 🙏🏼

[dennisafowler]

You are an excellent presenter. Clear, concise, and easy to understand

[jergervasi]

Lots of common sense here… rare for a YouTube video! I’ve been setting up control rooms for 30 years, and it’s amazing how many simple mistakes people make. The biggest one? Designing the room and buying acoustic treatments before listening to the space first! Great advice.

[MarcusJayMusic]

The sheer thoroughness of the way you ploughed through all the principles here was extremely satisfying! I'd love to come & work for you.

[Juan_lauda]

I can testify to the quality of the work coming out of Mark’s new room currently.

[sseltrekab]

thanx much to these "amateur YouTubers"...hands down, the best video i've seen on setting up a room for recording/mastering...

[Noone-of-your-Business]

Finally, someone who knows what he is talking about.

[CaptainProton]

I've given up chasing the dream of a mixable room and have just gone with Slate VSX. I'm happy now.

[PrinceWesterburg]

Brilliant stuff! I know from working in high end valve hifi that the speakers often sound tighter and punchier the closer they are the wall / corner though it is a logarithmic thing and too close kills the acoustic completely. Often speakers use the wall and floor as an extension to the cabinet. Also, if you kick a bucket of water you get a splash near your foot then the ripples travel across and make a splash the other side. This is true of acoustic energy in a room too and in most rooms if you sit with your head as far from the rear wall as the speakers are you get a very clear and balanced sound. This is great for placing client sofas or just that place where you relax / work off a laptop! :o)

[capncruunch]

Wow. I have spent months researching how to spundproof my apartment from noisy neighbors, and you have explained the physics involved extremely well in just 20 minutes!

[rickyblair]

I just saw this video earlier this evening. I am a determined audiophile and have been serious about music reproduction for many year but still struggling to get my room acoustics right. I happened to see another video about why to set speakers close to the wall from GIK Acoustics, explaining how that moving them away from the wall can creat a phase problem with the sound bouncing back and being out of phase at the time it hits your ears and then I saw this video. I use vintage Yamaha 3 way studio monitors . I removed all acoustic treatment on the front wall placed the speakers in the corner against the wall, located the best listening position and bam it was exactly what I thought was possible in my rooom . It has saved me a lot of money I was going to spend on more room treatment. Your exactly correct sometimes what is the accepted way and expected way is not always the best. THANKS SO MUCH.

[GreyWind]

wow this is the best informed video on this topic I've ever seen. It has helped me better than any "technical" explanations. It has cleared puzzles baffling me for more than 3 years as I've moved into 5 different apartments. Very glad I came to this video while setting up my new living room studio. The intuitive way never fails. Cheers.

[NicolaDiNisio]

I have had the same problem with the TV in the middle of my speakers. Solution: cover the TV with a soft blanket when listening to music. 20% more details and focus

[juhapeltola]

This is the best way to do this. Jesco is so good with acoustics.

[MuddyGunns]

Recently discover PDP Youtube Channel and its truly informative (and sometimes hilarious). I find myself binge listening to all the episodes. Just wanted to say thank you!

[VCVRackIdeas]

38% rule of the room length by Ethan Winer just worked for me once upon a time, just set and forget, but equal triangle is not pretty much, closer but not exactly in terms of details. And then Dirac another set and forget tool brought 200% of details from behringers 2031a. And the last one - Harman in room target adds 1000% of detail to the bass response. Now Voxengo Span on the fastest speed tells me exactly every damn note or hit that I'm hearing right now. Sound is a great miracle indeed!

[danielcharles]

Mark this brilliant!!! This has never been explained properly about monitor placement. And how to hear what is right and what is wrong! Thank you so much for doing this 🏆🏆🏆

[Tapper]

Brilliant. Another quality video to add to my collection of evidence which I will present to my wife in due course as to why the layout of the spare room is not good enough as a studio and only the living room will do. How can she possibly argue against this?

[kadiummusic]

My speakers and desk are in the corner of a fairly small room and for some crazy reason I get a great balanced sound, thank goodness because I don't really have an option any other way. 😎