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RockyStar
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How did you go about treating your music room for getting the best sound?

What products did you use?

How did you know what was needed and where it was needed to get your music room sounding right?
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Haven't been able to afford any fancy stuff yet.

I've always believed in fully-loaded bookshelves on the back wall 'though - best-bang-for-buck dispersion money can buy.
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I like fancy but I like effective and cost effective a whole lot more.
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Yup, and the bookshelves can't be beat.

Pro tip:
Fill 'em with books but don't arrange them by-size. Instead, try to jumble up heights and widths so that the spread of books looks as random as possible.

This is super-effective at preventing that ugly slap-back echo one gets from a bare rear wall. You don't want absorption on this wall or you'll end up using too much reverb in your mixes. Instead, you want a nice even dispersal of frequencies reflecting beck from that wall so as to prevent "dead room syndrome" and create a balanced-but-live-sounding room.
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I used a mix of 4' x 2' acoustic panels, 4' x 2' asymmetrical foam wedge panels, and two wooden skyline diffusers located behind my audio monitors.

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Looks great!
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