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Hello,

Going to move into a new room with a huge balcony door and one more door into the apartment. want to treat the space for fairly good mastering (electronic music). but the main use would be composing with 8" monitors. and enjoying some time mixing and partying.

i'm thinking curtains for the balcony and foaming up rest of the space.
is it best to treat the whole room with a foam layer and then add more items like diffusers or vice-versa? or start with acoustic treatment ?

thanks
FW

Hi
Not an expert here.
The little I know is to take care to get thick acoustic panels where the speakers point at and bass traps.
The cheap foam youtuber stuff, isn't very effective at lower frequencies (can't absorb a 2m wavelength in 2cm of material really) and bass may be muddy.
Best get something 10-12cm thick before diffusion.

There's also absorption and isolation, one being treating the reverb, the other one avoiding spill from the outside world and annoying neighbours.

Acoustics are a pain and expensive endeavour. Good luck x')

look this video to start

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHMtSTzEp_E