Oct 23, 2006 07:27 am run some pink noise though the systems with a measurment mic and see whats actually wrong. Then you can apply treament and EQ.
sound tuning a room
Posted on Oct 23, 2006 07:18 am
Ribbeck
Member Since: Oct 22, 2006
I need to sound tune my studio and i been lookin at options. I know about hanging quilts. What about the eggcrate bed topper? anyone got the skinny on some good studio foam? what about thick cloth hung up like curtains would a sheet be thick enough? Any suggestions or experience. does the cloth neet to have texture or can it be flat? Anything 'll help. Thanks Ribbeck
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Oct 23, 2006 07:27 am run some pink noise though the systems with a measurment mic and see whats actually wrong. Then you can apply treament and EQ.
Oct 23, 2006 07:32 am That egg crate bed padding does virtually nothing.
What you need is some reflective surfaces and some absorbing surfaces. Quilts and such are good, another good thing is office cubicle type pieces, I built my own boards that work nice www.homerecordingconnecti...story&id=50
reflective surfaces have things like bookshelves or something against with rows of different sized books that will help defuse the sound and reflect it in different directions...
then ring the room out with a mic and EQ www.homerecordingconnecti...story&id=29 might help.
Oct 23, 2006 07:50 am So no one has a hook up on studio foam.
I did red the article on the cubicals.
Just checkin for other stuff.
my studio is pretty much an empty room. concrete floors 30'by20' room.
i havent tested with the pink noise method. i am not really recording in the room i have a booth all i wanna accomplish is. i wanna make sure when my monitors blow out at me i aint getting distorted noise from reverb and echos off walls ya know.
Oct 24, 2006 04:56 pm Auralex, if you want good quality studio foam and products. These guys are the best. Many years in bussiness and always coming out with new products.
www.auralex.com/
Its what I use here.
The eggcrate bed foam is far to thin a material. Studio foam is extremely dense to absorb the sound rather then just muffle it like the bed foam.
Oct 24, 2006 07:05 pm Some dude emailed me a while back to review his acoustic panels, they spec'd as great panels, looked good, I just never hooked up for the review, not sure why.
I have been digging and digging hoping to find that site, cuz they were a great price, but I can't find it, It was GK Acoustics or something like that...
If you can find it, it looked very promising...
Oct 26, 2006 02:13 pm www.foambymail.com/soundproofing.html
Here's the place I use . Mainly because I pass it everyday, but also because I've found their product to be just as good as Auralex, but much cheaper .
Oct 26, 2006 02:51 pm that's a nice little company Hue. I've had a few dealings with Auralex and there stuff works well but the specs on the is company looks good too. I'll check them out.
Oct 26, 2006 03:17 pm Real nice folks there, as well .
Oct 26, 2006 03:22 pm Well, studio-density foam isn't cheap no matter where you go for it. I was really disappointed when I discovered how expensive Auralex is.
There's really no such thing as inexpensive studio foam...it must be really expensive to manufacture.
But keep in mind that normally you don't want to completely coat your room in the stuff. You just put a few tiles where they're needed to dampen flutter, echo, and standing waves.
You're not trying to completely deaden your room, just tame the frequencies that are amplified by the dimensions of the room.
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