How do I acoustically treat my room so that I get the best from my monitors?
This is a very large subject area covering room geometry, reverberation time, sound reflection and refraction, material properties, etc, so we will just give a checklist of the most important features...
The imaging on my monitors is poor (symmetry of room)?
The room into which you place your studio monitors should always be symmetrical to achieve the best imaging. Differences in the direct and reflected sound paths from each monitor will result in differ...
How do I set the acoustic tone controls (I am getting too much bass)?
GENELEC monitors are all calibrated in an anechoic chamber for free field conditions, i.e. no nearby reflecting boundaries that create comb filtering or load the drivers. The consequence of this is th...
I am not getting enough bass?
The wall behind the monitor
A critical factor in the bass response of a monitor in a room is the distance of nearby walls (or boundaries) from the monitor. If a monitor is positioned ‘free-standing’ ...
Small monitors are often placed either horizontally or vertically on the mixing desk meter-bridge, which is better?
Firstly, positioning a monitor on the meter-bridge will cause the entire surface area of the mixing desk to vibrate when playing loud signals. This will affect the perceived sound quality as energy is...
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