Room placement and set up.
The KRK design team has painstakingly modeled and analyzed hundreds of monitor placement and
room acoustic situations to ensure that KRK delivers the most useful EQ tools with minimal
adjustments.
Room acoustics are the biggest issue in today’s studios because we are not in the
perfectly built rooms now. Many great studios are just in a revamped house. We are giving you
control to correct some of the anomalies you get from these types of situations.
With the
LOW EQ
and
HIGH EQ
, we have given you 25 different combinations of EQ voicings to
help you correct for your studio
’s
acoustics to deliver more accurate monitoring. Start with
LOW
EQ
and
HIGH EQ
set to
3: FLAT
, which is truly flat, no cut or boost and the VOLUME set to 0.0dB.
Set them up in your room per the information and diagrams below. Listen to some of your favorite
songs and mixes. Try different positions in your room and different placements before making EQ
adjustments and then adjust the EQ to give you your best listening and monitoring experience.
SYSTEM SETUP
Overall system setup is crucial to avoid unnecessary room acoustic interaction. A
room’s natural acoustics may alter the sound level at various frequencies du
e to abnormal damping
or reflections. Follow the checklist below for more details.
1.
1 The system setup (studio monitors and work table) should be placed within the front
1/3 of the room. Doing so will reduce reflection buildup of peak frequencies.
2.
2 The left and right sides of the system setup should be centered an equal distance from
the left and right walls. This will produce even mid and low frequency response and
preserve stereo imaging.
3.
3 Avoid a listening position (your ears) that is closer than 3 feet (1 meter) from any wall.
Also avoid large objects (such as lamps or decorations) near the studio monitor and
listening position.
4.
4 Diffusers and absorption material in the corners and back of a room will help remove
room interaction by preventing reflections.
5.
5 Carpeting will help prevent reflections from hard floor surfaces.
6.
6 Studio monitor isolators (foam or rubber pads) will help remove low frequency
coupling between the stands and desk. Low frequency coupling will cause the stand or
desk to vibrate causing unwanted sounds.
7.
7 A low noise floor in your room (no outside interference from refrigerators or fans) is
important to prevent the masking of low frequency detail. Rattles due to studio monitor
playback should be fixed as well.
Within the system setup, the studio monitors and listening placement should be positioned in a
near field configuration as follows: The left and right studio monitors should be approximately 3 to
