r/Acoustics

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After some deep diving, I pulled the trigger and treated my room (what was a double garage)

And for all the comments I have had about treating your room, and I always went nah…

Let’s just say I get it.

It’s not finished yet, the big cloud has to be attached to the ceiling then I will do some REW readings.

It takes a bit of getting used to at first, the room is now very quiet.

But the sound….wow. Literally feels like I have just put headphones on.

Like I say. I get it. 👍

Meant to say All done by George at Homeward Sound, for literally half the price of GIK. And he was a true pro.

Are there any flooring installers or acoustic underlay experts that could guess the thickness of this underlay?

We have an upstairs neighbour that installed this and we are trying to gauge the thickness.

Thanks

Hello guys,

This is my drum room, gear:
- Mapex Armory Studioease with mesh heads
- Chang Low volume cymbals
- Congas Gong Bops Tumbao Series
- Dejembe Remo Mondo 14”
- Tambora dominicana

Even tough I use mesh heads and low volume cymbals it’s still noisy for my wife, specially when I play congas (there is not mesh heads por congas ja ja ja), so that, I have consider to install acoustic foam (picture attached) but O have also seen the acoustics panels (attached) that are foam with pvc as decorative it says that reduce a lot the noisy.

Does anyone have use the acoustic panels instead of the foam?
What’s is your recommendation to reduce at list something the noisy: foam or acoustic panels?

Thanks in advance guys…

I need help with the acoustics in my living room. I'm renting so can't and won't go all out on this. Wall is 2.4m high and 4m long. Adding some chat suggestions. Happy to have some human suggestions

I need any ideas for reducing sound traveling through this hallway. It’s literally nothing but very thin doors. I do need renter friendly ideas! All I can come up with is ceiling panels and a thicker rug. Thanks for any help!

Moving into my fifth home studio, scrapping all previous panels and building from scratch. It's a combination of acoustics and aesthetics so I'm not taking the performance too seriously, but going for thicker and bigger than before. 120 x 60 cm, 40 cm thick. Will stack 2 of these in the corners to have floor to ceiling coverage.

Also building 30 cm thick ones for the walls.

Hey all! I've been a performer my whole life and wanting to take recording and mixing my own stuff more seriously. Up till now I'be just been setting up my QSC 8" to use as monitors. Hoping to share my plan and get feedback on if I'm on the right track or missing anything.

I have a couple of Kali Audio 8" monitors sitting in my shopping cart (about $1,000 total) but I know that acoustic treatment is on par or even more important. I'm in a garage that's been converted to a multi-use space, and this side is for my studio set-up. Here's my current plan: Cloud panels overhead, panels behind the speakers. Wondering how much I would need bass traps in the corners and panels/diffusers on the side walls since they are so far away and I'm not using subs. On the opposite wall from this picture is the electric garage door which I am thinking about hanging heavy curtains to dampen the echo. The room is 24' wide and 30' long. I am for sure on a budget so I'm planning on DIYing monitor stands by making some wood boxes and filling with sand, and making the panels myself. I was also going to buy the ARC studio system to correct for what I can't manage otherwise. Also the rectangle behind my desk is a monitor with a blanket over it, and I am planning on buying a larger carpet remanent for the floor to cover more area. What do you think? Is anything in this plan overkill or should I reallocate resources in any way?

I figure that space isn’t used anyway since it’s a dedicated room, fuck it.

I do know I can use 2 batts of 3” Rockwool SnS (10,000 Rayls), and 1 batt of 2” Rockwool AFB (16,000 Rayls), to make 8” comparable panels instead, but I kinda want to use 3 batts of 3” SnS to make the panels use consistent density insulation, even if they end up being 9”.

Plan is to make the wooden, braced skeleton frames above, with black fabric, cause solid frame would be heavy af for what will be maybe 10 lb of insulation.

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This is for home theater btw, so full range of sound, obviously movies use a lot of mid lows and lows, so.

I’ll probably put 4 soffit bass traps too (accounting them so total surface area is 20% in the room), but let’s just do the broad band panels for now.

How useful would either be? Doing Music Production, Mixing, and Mastering in my Bedroom.

Or would they just be useful for the high frequencies?

Two room pictures attached. It's a long studio apartment.

And would a subwoofer really be able to even out the low end completely? Do I just have to set it up or do I have to worry about timing, etc..?

Thanks!

Hey guys, I'm building a muic studio at home. I've made 4 panels in total and wanna hang them on the wall, I know where the first reflection points are obviously but I'm not sure where to put the other two panels. Also I have a window that makes the room way worse. Can y'all give me some practical advice on my room and some potential issues, etc? Thanks.

Near-field setup in small room (roughly 3x3 m) with desk placed in a corner. All the dimensions (including reflection distances and mic position) are shown in last two pictures. Measured with ECM8000 mic.

I'd love to hear some explanation what's going on as it just shouldn't work...

Hi everyone, I've been thinking about treating my room for mixing and advancing the quality of my music for a while now. I've dove into the rabbit hole many times, but the 3 main things stopping me have been as follows: 1. I rent, so no drilling holes or anything like that. 2. I'm on a budget of around 400 to 500 dollars, so i cant go to GIK acoustics and blow a ton of cash. 3. I lack woodworking tools like a saw, I have a power drill of course but i cant make wood frames. But I have 5 batts of Owen Cornings R19 insulation, around 14 inches wide 3'10 feet tall and around 6 inches thick. How could i use this material to make bass traps for my room, with a solution that would fit my 3 parameters? Handling safety is not that big of a deal as i own several p100 and n95 masks. Thank you all so much.

(White background curve is current with no panels behind speakers, black background curve is previous with panels behind the speakers)

Hey guys,

So this is a follow up on my previous post. I moved the speakers fully to the front wall and actually took the 6 inch panels and put them into the corners and used my 4 inch panels for the first reflection points.

I keep moving the panels around and the frequency response curve doesn't change too much. What really got mostly rid of the null in the low end was moving the speakers closer to the wall.

This was a lot of trial and error but I think this looks better.

My questions now are:

1. How else can I improve this? Especially the low end. Sonarworks? Dirac?
2. How much of a difference will a 6 inch panel over my head as a cloud make in my 8 feet tall room?
3. Any other ideas or feedback or is this pretty decent?

Thanks a lot!