Treatment
Treatment is not about deadening a room. It is about the earliest reflected arrivals — the ones that smear an image — and about leaving the rest of the room alive.
The reflection points are found geometrically: sit down, and mark every place a driver appears.
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First reflections
The earliest reflected arrivals smear the image. Find them with a mirror and a second person.
A live room against a precise one.
Spend on the first points, then stop. -
Absorb or diffuse
Deaden and it goes lifeless; scatter and it stays alive. Most rooms need both.
Clarity against liveliness.
Spend on both, in different places. -
What furniture already does
A carpet, curtains and a full bookshelf are treatment.
Looking like a room against measuring like a studio.
Spend nothing first: count what the room already has.