. So I am currently studying sound engineering at Iceland and naturally have some interesting ideas and thoughts about sound, the first of which I am posting here:So the last couple of days I have been thinking: what would the ideal control room look like? My first thought was to simply have no control room at all. Just a single speaker in the sahara desert but that isn't really what we are after right? We want to have at least a small resemblance to the typical living room, as that's where other people are going to listen to your mix. But as we put walls around our speakers, we create the problem of phase cancellation and addition from reflections of those walls creating so called comb filtering. Yes those are of course in all living rooms too but at different frequencies and volume depending on the room. So we try to put some foam in the way of only those earliest reflections from the speakers and leave the rest to be "living room reveb". The second problem with walls are standing waves (room modes). These happen when a pitch is played that happens to either cancel out or add upp with it's reflection on paralell walls due to the length between them. A "quick" way to fix this is to decrease the number of paralell walls by making the room a bit odd shaped. BUT this in return introduces another (maybe a slightly smaller) problem: The stereo image. When the room is not symmetrical, the reflections of the left and right speakers are slightly different and though it might be a small problem, we are trying to get the best theoretical control romm possible. So finally for the fun stuff:
Can we make a symmetrical room with no standing waves? Well here is where I'm hoping to get a discussion from you guys as well as general ideas about the "perfect" control room. My idea is to build a oval like shape where all reflections reflect at an angle (not straight, building up standing waves) exept maybe at the x and y axix so possibly it would need 4 bass traps. (link to image of the shape below).
