All small untreated rooms are haunted by an acoustical monster i call the low end beast.
Small room acoustic treatment.
Acoustic treatment on the other hand aims only to control sound reflections within the room to make better sounding recordings.
And while soundproofing can definitely be incorporated as part of your acoustic treatment plan it s not technically acoustic treatment in itself.
The size of our small room environment has a major impact on the acoustical issues of the room especially at low frequencies.
Acoustic treatment is the process of improving the acoustic properties of a room for recording or mixing music.
The beast refers to the total accumulation of mayhem at low frequencies.
Both of these are valuable but neither does the job of the other.
Sources of mayhem include room modes the speaker boundary effect and any other acoustic distortion caused by bass waves trying to exist in small rooms.
The goal of acoustic treatment is to make your environment sound more neutral and sonically pleasing with controlled ambience and predictable qualities for recording.