Studio Monitor good setup in small room

[bryced87]

I live in a mobile home so I don't have large rooms. All my rooms are fairly small. My office desk is crammed in the back of my office and there is no room for the monitor/stands to fit on the sides of the desks so I have to put them behind my computer. I have two other LCD displays and I had to raise the studio monitors above so the speaker wasn't bouncing off the LCD displays. This leaves me with the tweeters about 3 feet above my ear level. There is just no other way to organize this with such a horrible place I'm in. There is some other person that has this similar issue. He told me he mixes sitting down and then stands up and backs up about 2 feet to listen at ear level. Would this work for me? I did hear about this plug in by waves. http://www.waves.com/plugins/nx#intr...rtual-mix-room This detects your face on the webcam then supposedly lets you hear the mix regardless of where you turn your head. Is this worth getting since my monitors aren't at exact position?

[kurt]

A pair of headphones can newer hurt:)

[Thistlefarmer]

Bryce, any chance you can secure the monitors where they are and aim them down at you? Depending on the reflections off your back wall, that might even give better results than having them level. Could be as simple as buying four rubber doorstops and some long Velcro straps.

[Bob Olhsson]

Studio 1 is a George Augspurger designed mobile home studio!

http://itrstudio.com/photos/itr-studio-shots

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by Bob Olhsson

Studio 1 is a George Augspurger designed mobile home studio!

http://itrstudio.com/photos/itr-studio-shots

Which of those is Studio 1?

[Bob Olhsson]

I meant A.

[Southsidemusic]

Originally Posted by Bob Olhsson

I meant A.

Whats your point with those photos?

He (OP) doesn't have a mobile studio, he has a mobile home and those pictures are saying nothing in the scheme of things here in this thread.

To the OP : Every studio i been in have that setup with some tweeks of what monitors are used so i would say look at youtube videos of small studios and see how they have their setups instead of looking at 1m dollar studios which are a completely different animal.

[YYR123]

Originally Posted by Thistlefarmer

Bryce, any chance you can secure the monitors where they are and aim them down at you? Depending on the reflections off your back wall, that might even give better results than having them level. Could be as simple as buying four rubber doorstops and some long Velcro straps.

I agree with this guy......

That and headphones.....also mixing at low volume levels allows you to minimize reflections, thus giving you a better more accurate picture of the sonics.....

[Drew Mazurek]

I strongly disagree on the use of headphones for proper mixing.

Considering that your right ear gets NO audio from the left speaker, and your left ear gets NO audio from the right speaker when using headphones, you're not getting the proper spacial relationships, frequency balances (i.e. you don't account for comb filtering as you would with monitors and well treated room) and the impacts this all has on balances.

I suppose you can get used to anything but then you're in a constant state of calculating.

Bottom line is, nothing replaces a properly treated room with decent monitors you know.

[YYR123]

Originally Posted by Drew Mazurek

Bottom line is, nothing replaces a properly treated room with decent monitors ......

This is without a doubt true. however I do believe there is a use for HP's if your not sitting in the nicest room.

I use nice studio headphones to compare LF levels during a mixdown. It's almost like using them as ALT Mon's.......

Not using them for 100% full mixing duties, no not by any means....but I do believe they can have their place.