Room Acoustics

soupking · 9th January 2007

Hello, I've got a 14' x 18' room with 12' high ceilings there's carpet on two of the walls with a concrete baffled ceiling.

My goal is to make the room as dead as possible since it's small, but I want to maximize my sound at the same time....or that sounds like a good plan to me anyway.

I've just bult a sound barrier for my control area. The wall splits through the middle leaving about 2/3 of the room available for recording.

The guy who built the wall for/with me insists that I should carpet the wall we built. He says that people have told him that a good carpet to hard surface ratio is useful. However, people on GS said first thing to remove the carpet from the walls. So I'm trying to find out what I should do.

I also have a carpeted floor. I was thinking I should lay down some tile and put in some bass traps in the corners. My logic behind this is to bring out the drum noise as much as possible and trap any bass muddiness rumbling in the carpet(s).

Am I headed in the right track at all?

Thanks for any suggestions or threads that anyone's seen that might sound like my room issue.

tINY · 9th January 2007

That room is too small for a divider - pull it out.

Get rid of the carpet and get or make some absorbtive pannels (4" thick). Also, get some bass trapping in there.

Concrete baffled ceiling????

-tINY

soupking · 9th January 2007

Quote:

That room is too small for a divider - pull it out.

Get rid of the carpet and get or make some absorbtive pannels (4" thick). Also, get some bass trapping in there.

Concrete baffled ceiling????

Well, I need a divider t hear what I'm doing. Plus it's 10" thick. Sorry, it ain't moving.

Get rid of carpet, cool. That's what I've heard.

Yeah, Bass traps are definitely on the list.

It's a concrete ceiling wth baffles hung for sound etc.

THanks tINY.

Ethan Winer · 9th January 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by soupking

Thanks for any suggestions or threads that anyone's seen that might sound like my room issue.

I already answered in the other thread you started:

http://gearslutz.com/board/showthread.php?t=102760

--Ethan

9th January 2007	#1
soupking Lives for gear Joined: Jul 2006 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 3,337 Thread Starter	Room Acoustics Hello, I've got a 14' x 18' room with 12' high ceilings there's carpet on two of the walls with a concrete baffled ceiling. My goal is to make the room as dead as possible since it's small, but I want to maximize my sound at the same time....or that sounds like a good plan to me anyway. I've just bult a sound barrier for my control area. The wall splits through the middle leaving about 2/3 of the room available for recording. The guy who built the wall for/with me insists that I should carpet the wall we built. He says that people have told him that a good carpet to hard surface ratio is useful. However, people on GS said first thing to remove the carpet from the walls. So I'm trying to find out what I should do. I also have a carpeted floor. I was thinking I should lay down some tile and put in some bass traps in the corners. My logic behind this is to bring out the drum noise as much as possible and trap any bass muddiness rumbling in the carpet(s). Am I headed in the right track at all? Thanks for any suggestions or threads that anyone's seen that might sound like my room issue.

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9th January 2007	#2
tINY Gear Guru Joined: Jul 2004 Location: Orygun Posts: 10,233	That room is too small for a divider - pull it out. Get rid of the carpet and get or make some absorbtive pannels (4" thick). Also, get some bass trapping in there. Concrete baffled ceiling???? -tINY