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Acoustics
Perfect sound starts long before you hit record, it begins with the room itself.
Treating a room acoustically means controlling reflections, bass buildup, and flutter echo.
Start with acoustic tiles or panels at first reflection points on the side walls and ceiling. Add bass traps in the corners to tame low frequencies, and use thicker tiles, panels or diffusers on the rear wall to balance depth and clarity.
Keep the floor mostly reflective, like wood or laminate and perhaps use a rug to reduce harshness. The goal isn’t silence, it’s balance.​
Roughly 25–35% of total surface area is the sweet spot for most studio rooms.
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Below 20% and reflections dominate.
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Above 40% and the room starts to feel choked or dead
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Keep coverage balanced — spread panels across key reflection points, corners, and ceiling clouds rather than clumping them on one wall.​
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Overall, you dont want your room contributing to the final sound, you want it as neutral as possible so that what you produce sounds the same wherever it is played. Monitoring is the next important step in achieving good 'translation' for your mixes but it starts with a good acoustic treatment, but luckily simple, affordable solutions are readily available.
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Our Top Recommended Acoustic Solutions
Soundproofing vs Acoustic Treatment
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Whilst, acoustic treatment deals with how sound behaves inside the room, controlling reflections, echoes so what you hear is accurate, soundproofing is about keeping sound in or out of a room, stopping noise from leaking through walls, doors, or floors.
Soundproofing relies heavily on a mix of considerations such as sealed structures, dense materials, double walls, airtight doors and floating floors.
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One keeps the neighbours happy; the other helps you mix the truth.
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