Visualize room modes….
We thought we’d share a great video and some info that was passed on to us by Haverstick Designs to help understand room modes:
“Many of you have probably seen this before, but it is a very interesting way to show the phenomenon of room modes using a resonant plate and some salt. This is a good way to visualize how tangential modes distribute throughout a room at various frequencies and how you can get cancellations (no salt) and buildups (lots of salt) throughout the room at various locations and in some very cool patterns!”
So there you have it! Now you can see a good representation of what goes on in your room while you are trying to mix, and why your mixes might not be translating as you had hoped! With some strategic treatment and possibly a second look at how you have your control room set up, you can likely correct a lot of mode issues in your room.
Happy mixing!
Cool Room Mode Calculator!
Here’s another find from our friends at Haverstick Designs- a very cool room mode calculator that let’s you “see” the effects in your studio of everything from your room’s dimensions, your listening position placement and subwoofer placement on the intensity of room modes.
The Amroc Room Mode Calculator:
Graph of the "Bolt-Area" showing cumulative good room ratios.
“You can explore “known rooms” which are popular room ratios or you can add
your own room to see how it fares. All dimensions are entered in
centimeters, so you can type in a Google search for example “12 ft to cm”
and it will display the conversion for you.Click around and explore the various tabs. There are notes for each tab that
gives you a description of what it should be used for. The “floor” tab is
probably the most interesting of them all.For the “floor” tab, you can set the height of the subwoofer and listening
position on the right side of the graph by using the sliders. Notice how
this changes the intensity of the various modes at the bottom. Next, you can
click on a specific mode at the bottom and see the distribution of this mode
on the graph. Then, you can drag the red dot in the upper left hand corner
of the graph to where the listening position would be located in the room -
allowing you to see in real-time, how the placement of the listening
position affects the intensity of the various modes.”-Haverstick Designs
Have fun! Let us know what you discover about your room! Send us a screenshot and we’ll give you our two cents.
