{"id":520,"date":"2016-02-04T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5722.temp.domains\/~audioor1\/ways-your-room-affects-your-music-2\/"},"modified":"2016-02-04T19:58:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T19:58:00","slug":"ways-your-room-affects-your-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/audioordeal.co.uk\/ways-your-room-affects-your-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Ways Your Room Affects Your Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was younger, I played a lot of guitar. Needless to say, my room was often very messy with clothes all over the floor, this made a huge difference to the sound. I’d spend ages getting a nice tone on my amp but then, when finally forced to tidy my room, the amp would sound different. This was my first experience of how drastically the room affects your listening. As you know, accurate monitoring is essential, which is why recording studios have invested tens of thousands for sound treatment. But what stuff in your room are actually the culprits?<\/p>\n

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The Walls<\/h2>\n
Your first issue isn’t the contents of the room, it is the walls. Sound waves reflect off walls and so can interfere with themselves, normally for regular listeners. this isn’t a huge issue and isn’t perceived but we want a flat response over all frequencies. The thing with interference is when there are standing waves that massively increase the volume of certain frequencies. <\/div>\n
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Standing waves occur when the room is the same length, or a multiple of the length of a wave. This means, when it bounces off the wall, the peaks line up and the volume is doubled.<\/div>\n
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