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Treating the front and rear walls

Treating the front and rear walls

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Treating the front and rear walls

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After the RFC is created, the rear wall is the most critical component of a good-sounding room. The other walls, floor, windows, and doors are important, too, but less so, especially if the door or window wasn't located in the RFC. Although the front wall might seem like a place that needs absorbtion because of its close proximity to the speakers, the fact is that speakers radiate omnidirectionally below 100 Hertz. If the monitors are correctly placed and angled. There should never be any high frequencies that reflect off the front wall to begin with. That's one of the reasons why bass traps are placed in the front corners. The other being that the front of the room isn't used to the space won't be missed. The only reason to add absorption to the front wall is if the room still has a reverb decay time that's too long. This shouldn't be the case if you use the suggestions in this course up until now. It's important that the rear wall be treated in order to keep the direct sound from…

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