If you ask most engineers, you will find that they agree on the point that diffusers are far less effective in small home studios as compared to the bigger rooms of pro studios.
And as a result, many home studios don’t use them at all.
Which is actually good news if you’re on a budget, because they’re actually quite expensive, far more so than absorption.
Of course, as you would expect, there are other that folks disagree on this theory completely, and use tons of them even in smaller rooms.
You may be asking, “What is a diffuser and what is it’s purpose”?
The idea of a diffuser is to break up and weaken those reflections, preventing them from warping your perception of your mix. Diffusers try to make sure that you do not have standing waves meaning the diffuser tries to make sure that the sound never bounces back and forth in the same place twice. It is literally trying to scatter the sound so that no frequency can be exaggerated or amplified during the mixing process.
- On 01/27/2025
