Home Studio Control Room. One end of the room is treated with sound absorbing materials while the other end of the room has reflective surfaces. This is a 24 x 17 game room transformed into a recording studio control room that doubles as a home theater.
Even so the amount of treatment required makes this impractical for a home studio. In the desk I put a self made monitor controller based on an arduino which controls the control room stuff in Cubase dim talkback monitor a and b and volume diy absorbers made from basotect bass traps are made from rock wool and are 60x70x220cm. You could always find ways to treat your recording or control room environment to be sufficiently or absolutely dry.
After your home recording studio is up and running youll want to invest in acoustic treatment panels.
So this month we explain the principles anyone can use to get their own control room sounding right. These will improve the sound of your room by evening out acoustic problems. If you only have one optionthen just use that. Where to put bass traps if youre building a home studio for recording or mixing and especially for the first time this would be your foremost room treatment concern.