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Getting your home studio to translate properly, in particular the low end, is a hard nut to crack.
I’m sure that, if you’ve already got at least a few mixes under your belt, then you’ve realized that your room and speakers are lying to you. What you’re hearing from the speakers isn’t actually the truth of what’s in the music!

I always found it most obvious when you’re mixing late into the night, loving the music, bouncing away in your chair, thinking: “Man this sounds soooo fat!! I think I finally cracked this mixing thing!!”

And then the next day, all excited you put up the track… and… start crying in despair. Nothing sounds the way it should!! Definitely not like last night! The snare is waaay too loud. And the low end… just… gone. What happened?? How could this be??

I think we all know what happened. Bad room acoustics is what happened!

So you naturally go online and start researching room acoustics. But man is there a flood of stuff to go through. In no time at all you get sucked into this vortex of never-ending forum threads with people fighting, following one link to the next, sometimes decades-old obscure websites and blogs, and you only call it quits after 3 hours have passed, your brain is totally numb and let’s face it:

You still have no idea what to do.

In fact, researching the net has only made you more confused.
That’s the main problem with trying to find answers about treating your room online. There is so much misleading information, contradictory opinions, and half-baked advice that it’s impossible to figure out what actually works.

It’s tough to know where to start, and often it leads you to prioritize and try things that don’t give results. It’s really damaging because it makes you seriously doubt that you can make acoustic treatment work for you in the first place.

So you end up in this frustrating limbo of knowing that you “should treat your room” but not knowing how... And maybe you even try something here or there. But every time you gather up the courage to give it another go and finally crack this nut, it ends the same.

More confusion, more questions, and a smoking brain.

So you surrender and go back to the same old routine of accepting the mush in the low end, fighting your way through every new mix, and constantly second-guessing every little decision you make.

The thing is: it absolutely doesn’t have to be this way.

Done right, treating your room is like buying the ultimate piece of gear.
Treating your room won’t do any of the work for you, but it makes everything you do so much easier. You make decisions faster, which in turn means you work faster, and so you learn faster. It’s like a force multiplier. To the point where you don’t even have to “think” about how your mixes will translate anymore.

Your room and speakers instantly tell you everything you need to know.

It literally becomes a matter of: “Oh, this is obviously not right yet, let me make this slight adjustment, ok there we go, done.”

And when you take the mix out to the car or send it off to a client, you know that it will exactly sound how you mixed it.

Can you see how tremendously more impactful this is than any other piece of gear you can buy?

Just imagine. None of that nagging doubt. Just pure flow.

It was no different for me when I got started treating my room.
But I also very early on started helping others to treat their studios. I just couldn’t stop myself going down the rabbit hole again and again.

And again and again, techniques failed, approaches didn’t work and measurements raised a huge question mark. But it also fast tracked my learning curve.

Now 10 years later, with countless studios under my belt, I know that only a handful of techniques and tools actually reliably improve how a small room sounds and more importantly: how mixes translate.

Classic Pareto Principle: 20% of the effort gives 80% of the results.

If you’re working in a small room on a budget and you want results, it all comes down to having the right tool and how you use it in your room.

That's right, you only need one type of panel and the right placement strategy for it.

You need a panel specifically designed to take care of small room issues in one combined package (low-end mush and high-end overdamping), while hitting that sweet spot between cost, size, and looks.

And you need a placement strategy that is tailored to your space, that makes the best use of your panel while focusing specifically on those same small room acoustic problems.

Done right, it won’t just help you get control of your room’s low-end, but will also treat the rest of the spectrum as well.

Imagine how that simplifies things...