Ceiling treatment

soundchaserxyz · 27th August 2009

The basement drum room we record in is 8’6” x 11’11” and has a 7’ ceiling. The floor is carpet and the walls are sheet rock. The ceiling has R-11 and is sheet rocked. Recording for us is a hobby. We do not mass-produce CD’s and most of our gear is mid-priced stuff. The only people that hear our finished product are family and friends.

I have 4 bass traps that I put in the corners of the drum room. I’m looking for suggestions to tame the ceiling without having to buy anything. That is, can I use comforters, pillows, or other household absorbing items to place on the ceiling and would it make any sonic improvement to our basement drum recordings?

Glenn Kuras · 27th August 2009

Well you are getting a lot of CRAP (very tech term

) from the ceiling so treating it would help improve your recordings. If budget is in play then YES covering with pillows will help, but rigid fiberglass or mineral wool panels really are not that much. They will look and work a hundred times better.

Glenn

johndykstra · 27th August 2009

Or remove sheet rock and replace with fabric

27th August 2009	#1
soundchaserxyz Gear Head Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 49 Thread Starter	Ceiling treatment The basement drum room we record in is 8’6” x 11’11” and has a 7’ ceiling. The floor is carpet and the walls are sheet rock. The ceiling has R-11 and is sheet rocked. Recording for us is a hobby. We do not mass-produce CD’s and most of our gear is mid-priced stuff. The only people that hear our finished product are family and friends. I have 4 bass traps that I put in the corners of the drum room. I’m looking for suggestions to tame the ceiling without having to buy anything. That is, can I use comforters, pillows, or other household absorbing items to place on the ceiling and would it make any sonic improvement to our basement drum recordings?

27th August 2009	#2
Glenn Kuras Gear Guru Joined: Jul 2005 Location: Atlanta, GA Posts: 11,992	Well you are getting a lot of CRAP (very tech term) from the ceiling so treating it would help improve your recordings. If budget is in play then YES covering with pillows will help, but rigid fiberglass or mineral wool panels really are not that much. They will look and work a hundred times better. Glenn __________________ Glenn Kuras GIK Acoustics USA GIK Acoustics Europe 770 986 2789 (USA) +44 (0) 20 7558 8976 (UK) See the NEW Scopus Tuned Trap

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johndykstra Lives for gear Joined: Jan 2008 Location: Midwest Posts: 4,578	Or remove sheet rock and replace with fabric