How to Make a Cheap Recording Studio (with Pictures) - wikiHow

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Use the mirror trick to find the best locations for your absorption panels. Sit in the location where you’ll be when doing your recording work. Have someone stand with a mirror against the wall, on the right side of your right monitor, at the same height as your head. Have that person slowly move it along the wall, around the walls of the entire room, until it’s on the left side of the left monitor. Look into the mirror from your chair and swivel as you watch the mirror go around the perimeter of the room. At every point where you can see at least one of the monitors in the mirror, have your helper make a mark on the wall.

Your studio monitors are going to direct sound outward, past you, and onto the walls beside and behind you. The sound is then going to bounce off the walls and back towards you, which is going to distort the sound.

Sit in the location where you’ll be when doing your recording work. Have someone stand with a mirror against the wall, on the right side of your right monitor, at the same height as your head. Have that person slowly move it along the wall, around the walls of the entire room, until it’s on the left side of the left monitor. Look into the mirror from your chair and swivel as you watch the mirror go around the perimeter of the room. At every point where you can see at least one of the monitors in the mirror, have your helper make a mark on the wall.