simple speaker placement help!

[songsongsong]

hey guys, i dont know too much about acoustics and speaker placement, so please bear with me if i sound really ignorant.

i'm working in my bedroom, which is pretty small, and i have no acoustic treatment at all. i have KRK RP-5's on either side of my setup on speaker stands right infront of a wall. however, the right speaker is actually in a corner; it has the wall to its back and a wall to its right side, whereas the left speaker is not in a corner; it just has the wall to its backside.

now, i am noticing that the right speaker is giving a much fuller bass response than the left side. i have double checked the outputs of my mixer, the cables that im using, the adjustment settings on the back panel of the RP-5's, my sound source, etc. and everything is in fine working order. i really am beginning to think this is because i have the speaker in a corner, which is somehow exxagerating the low end for the right speaker.


now, since my room is small, its going to be very difficult for me to rearrange my setup so both speakers are in ideal locations. i dont think i will be able to move my right speaker out of its corner. my question is, is there any other option i have in order to balance out the bass response from both speakers? i really dont want my right side to have more bass than my left, as this will not work well when mixing.

thank you very much for your help/input!

[TimmyP1955]

Proximity to boundaries can enforce bass, and can cause a notch in the response. See http://www.peavey.com/support/techno...ncellation.cfm and http://www.padrick.net/LiveSound/CancellationMode.htm

[Bops2000]

I have one in the corner also, but about 18" away. I also ran a 4 "strip of 1/4 inch laminated wood along the corner at a 45 degree angle to each wall. pull the speakers out from against the wall as much as you can. worst case -run some tests between headphones and live; and eq the output, (That is worst case, I do not like to do that).

[TimmyP1955]

18" from the wall would give you a notch at about 150Hz.

If the speakers are 4' off the floor/ceiling, that would give you a notch at about 70Hz.

If they are say 2.5' from the wall behind, that would give a notch at 110Hz.

So you can see that typical placement such as this makes a lotta holes in the response.