Treating my room

[guitarguy1555]

i'm in college and live at home and im wanting to put some treatment up in my room/ home studio. Since it is my bedroom i do have some limitations and it still needs to have a decent look to it. so i was thinking of using some of those dik acoustic panels and covering with the fabric.

the room is a little tricky because my daw is in the corner. I'm not sure if the image came in good, but the green stuff are my daw and amp. For the amp i was thinking about building an isolation cab and leaving that in the space behind my bed. Need some advice on some solutions yall would use for this room.

was also thinking another option would be to have a moveable screeen thats treated for vocals.

http://i780.photobucket.com/albums/y...55/th_room.jpg

[guitarguy1555]

also when i'm recording and mixing and such i move that chair all the way over to the bed, doing that gives me a pretty decent amount of space to work in. enough that i'm not crowding myself with my guitars and mics and such

[Ethan Winer]

You'll get more replies in the Acoustics sections of this forum, especially if you post a drawing that's readable. In the mean time, here's my Reader's Digest version:

All rooms need:

* Broadband (not tuned) bass traps straddling as many corners as you can manage, including the wall-ceiling corners. More bass traps on the rear wall behind helps even further. You simply cannot have too much bass trapping. Real bass trapping, that is - thin foam and thin fiberglass don't work to a low enough frequency.

* Mid/high frequency absorption at the first reflection points on the side walls and ceiling.

* Some additional amount of mid/high absorption and/or diffusion on any large areas of bare parallel surfaces, such as opposing walls or the ceiling if the floor is reflective. Diffusion on the rear wall behind you is also useful in larger rooms.

For the complete story see my Acoustics FAQ.

There's a lot of additional non-sales technical information on my company's web site - articles, videos, test tones and other downloads, and much more.

--Ethan

[Micah Tolentino]

Ethan is correct. I took his advice a couple years back and placed panels at the first refelction points, (mainly the sides next to my ears and in the corners. What a difference. Needless to say I am receiving more mixing gigs and mix full time from my "bedroom studio".

I also took Glenns advice when he said to make sure your panels were at least 4" thick. They made a huge difference to the leveling of bass levels in my small room. The auralex panels were about as helpful as plastic bags for trapping bass.

Im still in the process of making a cloud to hang over my head and stradling more corners. But so far my room is translating pretty well now.

[Synthy08]

I wish there was like a room treating kit where i could just buy for a couple hundred and it be decent.

[allencollins]

Originally Posted by Synthy08

I wish there was like a room treating kit where i could just buy for a couple hundred and it be decent.

there is, call this guy

Owens Corning 703 : Ready Acoustics!, Hear - Sound - Better


get some owens or he may sell rockwool which is great an inexpensive

[Synthy08]

Originally Posted by allencollins

there is, call this guy

Owens Corning 703 : Ready Acoustics!, Hear - Sound - Better


get some owens or he may sell rockwool which is great an inexpensive

I meant like something simple like a beginners started package....Buying separate stuff i know ill buy the wrong things.

[Ethan Winer]

Originally Posted by Synthy08

I meant like something simple like a beginners started package....Buying separate stuff i know ill buy the wrong things.

There's no such thing as "one size fits all" because everyone's room is different.

There are two ways to treat your room - cheap and not cheap. If all you can afford is cheap, then you have no choice but to read up and learn how to do it yourself. All of us at the Gearslutz Bass Traps forum are glad to help, but you still have to ask the questions, and make the effort to understand the answers and learn how "the big picture" applies to your room. But just putting bass traps in corners and absorbers at reflection points will get you most of the way there.

--Ethan

[allencollins]

Originally Posted by Ethan Winer

There's no such thing as "one size fits all" because everyone's room is different.

There are two ways to treat your room - cheap and not cheap. If all you can afford is cheap, then you have no choice but to read up and learn how to do it yourself. All of us at the Gearslutz Bass Traps forum are glad to help, but you still have to ask the questions, and make the effort to understand the answers and learn how "the big picture" applies to your room. But just putting bass traps in corners and absorbers at reflection points will get you most of the way there.

--Ethan

There is a simple formula. And you can get out cheap with just rockwool. Don't lie to people. That is dishonest.

Call around don't listen to Ethan. There is software available and all sort of simple ways to assess your needs.

[Ethan Winer]

^^^ Folks, please ignore this troll. If you want to learn about room treatment, do as I suggested and ask in the Bass Traps section here on Gearslutz. The exerts there are glad to help everyone with their budget / DIY projects. If you want to read and learn how to DIY cheaply on your own, most of what you need is right here in one place:

Acoustics FAQ

There's a ton more non-commercial advice that applies equally to DIY people on my company's web site:

RealTraps Articles
RealTraps Videos

--Ethan

[guitarguy1555]

Pictures by guitarguy1555 - Photobucket

i took some pics of the room

[RCM - Ronan]

Originally Posted by allencollins

Ethan.............. [snip] .............your needs.

There is a ton of great info on Ethan's site as well as the GIK acoustics site. Tons of great info there, even for people that have no intention of ever buying their products. Even though almost all of the acoustic treatments in my studio were custom built for the room, I learned a ton from Ethan when trying to figure out my room treatment strategies, both from his web site and all his free advice here on Gearslutz.

[Dihnekis]

I'm in the exact same situation, so thanks for this thread and the replies to it.

[bitmob]

Originally Posted by allencollins

there is, call this guy

Owens Corning 703 : Ready Acoustics!, Hear - Sound - Better


get some owens or he may sell rockwool which is great an inexpensive

You'll save a ton by not paying for shipping and getting it locally.