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| Gear maniac Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: American in China
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| Anyone ever regretted spending too much treating room acoustics? Acoustic treatment is expensive, and in the last few years, it's been a fast-growing business. With all these happy customer stories floating out there, I gotta wonder if there are those who spent the big bucks but felt like the improvement did not justify the amount spent? Anyone? |
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Nashville, TN
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| Yes, when they bought Auralex foam.
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| Gear nut Join Date: Jun 2006
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| I can't say that I've spent big bucks (less than 1k for me) but I can say that what I have spent was the best money I have ever invested in regards to the recording process. It is not an area where you will regret putting your money. And no, it was not Auralex. ![]() |
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| Moderator Join Date: Dec 2002
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| I know people who have regretted spending money on ill-advised and ineffective treatments; but everybody I've known who has made informed decisions and sprung for the appropriate treatment has been incredibly excited with the results. It's always a rush to suddenly hear it like you've never heard it before. It's like you went out and bought new monitors. It tends to make you want to sit in the room for a long time and listen to a bunch of music. Most of the people in the first group (with regret) have not sworn off treatments, but rather have aspired to doing it better. But hey, I'm an acoustics geek, so I suppose I'm biased. |
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| Gear maniac Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: American in China
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| Ok, so no Auralex (even their Elite Pro line?). So what are you happy customers using? Realtraps? Readytraps? Ghost Acoustics? |
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| Gear maniac Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Los Angeles
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| I agree. Plus, there's something about the customer service/support and informational resources that companies like GIK Acoustics give to their customers that make the buying process a 'non-regrettable' experience. The thought of buying Auralex foam to treat a room always reminds me of all the shitty beer-soaked rehearsal studios I've practiced at that had those purple pyramids... ![]()
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Atlanta, GA
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I most say that acoustics for most people (not me Quote:
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I think you may be able to find people that have bought stuff like this FAST Audio that felt a little ripped off. ![]() Glenn | |
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: So. Cal.
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| I'm a happy GIK customer. Due to room constraints, I had to mount panels with compromise regarding optimal placement -- and it still made a marked difference. Just minimizing some early reflections and ringing low notes made it worth the cost/effort.
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Switzerland/New Zealand/guitar case
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| sound proofing a room then losing the lease.. although thats a problem wih the lease not the treatment narco
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| Gear addict Join Date: Aug 2007
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| Fast Audio seem good - anyone tried it? /zen
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| Gear addict Join Date: Aug 2007
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| Oh and yes - I have too many Absorbers now so I don't know where to put them - I can't store them in the Barn because the cold and heath will destroy the wood... So I regret it! Treatment suxs!
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| Gear addict Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Brown Summit, NC, USA
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| GIK Panels in my tracking rooms improved my tracks tremendously. It's so much easier to mix now having captured focused, well balanced sounds from the beginning. Of course mic placement, mics, preamps, etc...are all important too
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| Gear nut Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Virginia
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| Which panels are you using 242 or 244? I want to set up 4 in a vocal tracking area and was trying to figure out if I needed the 244 or not. Thanks.
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| Lives for gear | well is all about the right acoustics, design and materials.....many acoustic products and designs can look great , but they do not do too much.... I was in some big commercial studios where they spent big bucks on the acoustics per sq feet and I can tell you my studio sounds great and better. GIK and ReadyAcoustics are great products.....not only great products but also great for what you pay. ..and you can contact both owners and Glenn here at GS.
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| Gear nut Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Virginia
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: New Milford, CT, USA
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| Puh-leeze! ![]() Tube compressors are expensive. Outboard word clocks are expensive. Vintage (or recreated) microphones are expensive. High-end A/D/A converters are expensive. Many plug-in bundles are expensive. Many outboard EQs are expensive. In the grand scheme of things, room treatment is a friggin' bargain. Even the really good stuff like what RealTraps sells. Good bass traps and other room treatment will do more to improve the quality of your productions than anything else you can buy. --Ethan
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| I think it's a bit unfair to dismiss Auralex or other foam products outright... they, like so many other products, can make excellent tools for performing specific tasks. I recently asked Russ Berger (www.rbdg.com) how he treated the ceiling of a drum room they had designed and built in a guy's garage... His response: 'foamed it up'. The thing is to know what foam will and WILL NOT do.
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I bet you couldn't build them fast enough to keep them in stock if you did that.
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But as cost-benefit goes, fiberglass and products made from fiberglass are usually a better value, and many are Class A fire rated too.--Ethan
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| I occasionally work in a midtown studio that spent a decent amount of money -- or at least time -- on a plethora of DIY acoustic treatment: The control room has 3 or 4 tuned panel basstraps plus lots of fabric-wrapped 2" rigid fiberglass panels at the first reflection points and across the front wall, tracking room has 2 more of these tuned panel basstraps plus a bunch more 2" panels, blah blah blah... It sounds like ass. Nasty howling room modes that just ring forever and color everything you hear. Practically unusable. I've taken to tracking with headphones 95% of the time I work there. Dear god, if the studio owners there don't regret spending whatever they did to treat those rooms, they're clueless! So in answer to the OP's question "Has anyone ever regretted spending too much treating room acoustics?" I would think the answer is "Yes...anyone who's ever done it wrong." |
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: long island, ny
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| the treating i did in my tracking room was the best money i've ever spent... it makes it easier to get that right sound in front of the mic, which in turn makes it easier to just slap it into the mix... and it looks fancy... all DIY, i researched, got some help from ethan and the gik guy, and it came out great.
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| Gear maniac Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: American in China
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| Thanks for brining up GIK! I had looked at their site a while ago and was impressed with the low cost but high quality claims. I then for the life of me couldn't remember the name of the site and have been searching for it. With that kind of pricing, it's a total no brainer (unless anyone here's got anything bad to say about them)? |
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| Yeah, I've been EXTREMELY happy with my GIK panels. Glenn and Bryan have been top-notch (not to mention Warren at Front End for his help....). I never thought it would make THAT much of a difference, but now I don't think I could ever work in an untreated room again.....
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The 242 will work, but if money is not a problem I would go with the 244. BUT please contact us with your room size (actually pictures too if you can) so we can see what is going on. Don't just buy and guess. Glenn | |
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