Hello Ethan!
Thanks for your reply.
Just right now, I was rereading your
Acoustic Treatment and Design for Recording Studios and Listening Rooms page, which I had read last I think a year ago or so, and I discovered that you were actually WAY ahead of me (no suprise there I guess ;-)
Quote:
| Another great and inexpensive way to make a bass trap - if you have a lot of room - is to place bales of rolled up fluffy fiberglass in the room corners. These bales are not expensive, and they can be stacked to fill very large spaces. Better still, they are commonly available and you don't even have to unpack them! Just leave the bales rolled up in their original plastic wrappers, and stuff them in and near the room corners wherever they'll fit. Stack them all the way up to the ceiling for the most absorption. |
However, is it a requirement to have A LOT of room (ie. when doing this in a room like mine, which is 13.12ft x 10.5ft x 8.2 ft), or did you just mention that cause usually people are not willing to give up space?
You know, sometimes I wish I would have never learned about acoustics, it seems that lately it's all I am doing, reading for HOURS on end, seeing all those superb studios, getting frustrated along the way, spending weeks trying to find alternatives for 703, 705 (not available here), buying a test microphone, only to realize that even after weeks of reading about the subject, it's one thing to actually have the waterfall in front of your nose, but a totally different one to REALLY understand and interpret it! It's moments like those that I wish I could just go ahead and say: "Ethan, here's a first class ticket, go crazy and let me know when the room is finished".
Alas, reality stands in the way
<back to even more reading>
Ps: Thanks again for all the information sharing, and thanks to gearslutz too. I find myself returning here for reading on an almost daily basis, multiple times a day (!!!).