Subwoofers (#2): How to place your sub correctly (in a home studio) - with HEDD Audio

so where am I supposed to place my sub mate? lol

If a decent, capable pair of speakers were purchased in the first place, there would be no need for subwoofers!!!! It seems the current fashion to fill rooms with as many speakers as possible, which is a foolish approach because it just causes more problems.

Ive got 2 speakers in my room and I'm willing to wager that my system sounds and performs better than 95% of the hifi systems owned by people watching these types of video. Id also bet it sounds better than 99.9% of home cinema systems.

Subwoofers are for correcting mistakes already made.

Thanks :)

You silly subwoofer people need a brain wipe & complete re-education...............
Here's one to ponder and as you do, try & think of all the subwoofer placement theories. Ready? I'll quote myself. "If you can hear it, then there's a stereo image".
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When I bought my house and built my new studio, the room had some serious issues with so many nulls in the sub frequencies. I thought I was gonna have to spend thousands of dollars on room treatment to get the best out of my sub and really hear and feel that low end. I consulted with an acoustician and he said "Why go through all that trouble? Just buy a second sub." And I said "No, I dont need more bass, I need even bass." to which he said No, thats not the point. Your one sub no matter where you put it in that room is going to have alot of nulls, so the second one will most likely peak where the other sub nulls. Andddddd sonnnn of a bitch...he was right. I just bought a second sub and essentially have what he called a "poor mans 3-way setup". 2 subs, located directly under each speaker and where one sub nulled, the other sub peaked...completely evening my bass response in my room and I never heard or felt sub so beautiful ever in my life. So "room acoustics without all the voodoo" - buy a second sub. Thats why alot of major studios have multi sub set ups because....it's really the right way to go. DOnt cave into thousand dollars of "carbon technology" cough Denis Foley *cough*....just buy another sub to fill in the frequencies where the first sub is lacking. Its that simple and while I thought it would be complicated like you said...its far from it.

Positioning androom acoustics are the most important , for example my krk 12.4 that i purchashed today sounds verry bad if i place it on the side of the room and not betwin the monitors ...also i have to do something with the room ,because the sounds bounce around like crazy

what about positioning the sub on the same level/hight as the other speakers? WOuld that not contribute to the signal beeing in phase?

Cant trust anyone who choose a ”studio” with a slapback delay in the room. Standing waves will love that environment.
And that measurment is insanely bad.
If you have that problems in the beginning. Dont even consider a subwoofer.

You could have made the video longer if you'd have repeated yourself 7 times instead of only 6 times.

I own the Genelec 7360A 10" Subwoofer. It goes down to 19 Hz. It sounds very clear with no distortion. I have it hooked up to a Hosa FSC-501 bypass switch. When you hit that switch you can hear a big difference in bass-heavy music. Turned up a bit... and it will vibrate half of the entire house! Genelec makes amazing subwoofers.

just sit on it and feel that bass

Hi there, i have a set of Adam Audio T5V's and the accompanying T10S Subwoofer. The satellite speakers have a Low Frequency dip switch to boost or cut by 2 db as well as a flat setting. With my subwoofer up and running in this configuration would i leave the Low Frequency control switch set to flat? Any thought? Hope that makes sense.

Modern day receivers can calibrate speaker distances, sound waves and phases.. dude this is a long drawn out video for subwoofer placement.. this is not rocket science. Omg.. video is too long for no reason

If your sub is over wheels why it can't be placed over a furniture that has been designed to be sturdy?

Hi there, gret video series, thank you..., how do i connect this subwoofer to the audient Nero i just bought? Just plug a TRS Jack from the SUB out on the back to the Audient Nero ( Monitor Controller) in the Left IN TRS of the Sub? Thank you if you can answer. I cant find anything about this metter on the web. How actually connect a Sub to the Audient Nero Sub connection out.

There is some good points in this video. Most of it suggesting to do some testing.

W8 M8, youare on the right angle but, the sound frequencies travel and different speeds xD so if you place the sub in the same distance as speakers the sound waves will arrive at different time anyway xDDD There is enough logic behind you to watch the whole video and if you do believe it works it works BUT yare the type of a guy that overthink it just like me xD Problem with subwoofer is that the reflection of the wave matter a lot more than the placement therefore ironically the placement is very important if we have untreated room with reflections all over making dead zones for certain frequencies. In ideal conditions the room should have no reflections at all so you can hear the wave at the same amplitude in every spot in the room, which is pretty much utopic. So as long I do agree it would be ideal to have the frequencies get to you in exact same time is pretty darn impossible because of the nature of the sound, we can get close enough but the whole psychoacoustic image will be completely different from a perfect time alignment. Then first you need to think for room acoustics to combat reflections or/also fix the placement to get the linear frequency response and then time if yoare crazy enough to measure and calculate soundwave propagation times xD

Thanks for the vid, I’m getting my first svs sub and I wanted a good placement. Thanks for the help

I'm having a nightmare. It's actually ruining my daily mood. I went from a corner sofa, to a 3 and 2 sofa set, and now the bass from the subwoofer has just disappeared. Really limited space in the room to place the sub, also. Will panels and difussers help?

You talked for 20 mins ?

How not to talk about it .I fell asleep.

you guys need a tripod lol

thanks for the knowledge that frequency > localization for sub placement

Your room sounds quite lively.

In my home studio I don't have a single fixed listening position due to jamming on different hardware synths. A major pain point for me is the very uneven bass response at different positions in the room. Given the subwoofer is mono, would I be able to get a more even bass response at different listening positions in the room since the two speakers wouldn't cancel each other out?

Best solution is to buy 2 subwoofers and place one near left speaker and one near right speaker. This will allow you to avoid phase problems and this will allow you to raise the crossover frequency.

Thank you! I have always been sceptical about phase issues when placing subwoofers. I mean, at 80 hz the wavelength is over 4 meters, so it would take a misplacement of over 2 meters to achieve a full phase shift in theory. Thoughts?

Your camera is making me dizzy

Nice padded room ya got there, you must have spent a small fortune on that furniture cushioning/bedding. Just about all the guru's say than an anechoic room is not really what you want. But I can tell you that I want one very much! Nice demo. Cheers 🍻

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I have noticed that placing the sub on a yoga mattress give it more impact. But you should lean it down instead (landscape mode) rather than placing it on its leg. I have FEEL the difference....

Funny thing is I know a famous producer/engineer that had 2 professional acousticians come to his home studio to help him get his room where he wanted it. They failed. He ended up doing it himself and got it where he wanted it. All the advice they gave him didn't work. Be warry of some of these so called acousticians. They all have a different opinion on something that is supposed be a factual science .A lot of them try to show you graphs and all this technical jargon. Most of it BS marketing to get you to buy something. Do your research folks. Not saying this channel is BS. Just saying people need to be careful.

Oh yeah

I have 2 questions,

Does the central heating unit interfere here? Which is next to the sub.

And those diffusers, does that have a good effect in that position and is that an idea in a livingroom? And if yes, which type is this ?

Cheers!

In a properly treated room you can have the satellites as far as the sub and still get that in your face sound with belly shaking bass ..so yeah subs ftw !! But need really good bastrapping for them,!