Doing some light (read not expensive) treatment

[anamorphis]

Hello everyone,

I'm going to be moving to a new house in a few months, but while it is still under construction, I will be living in a temporary place. While I'm happy to go to a brand new home, this means that I will temporarily be without a proper place to work on my music, and to make things worst, I'm right in the middle of a big personal project that I just can't afford to pause...
So, this said, I would like to ask everyone your opinion on how/what can I do to have reasonable acoustics in the space I have to work for the next few months.
It's a relatively small attic with only window/door, but the problem is really the stairs, because as you can see in the pictures, it's kind of an open space, and the reverberation it causes is just too much.
To treat the rest of the walls, I have a few acoustic foam panels and bass traps that I had in my previous studio, so I can use those. But that large opening to the stairs is the problem.
What would you do? Hang heavy cloths to make sort of a wall? The problem isn't at all the noise going out of the room, or even getting in (it's quite a calm place, far from the town, no roads too close, etc.), but the acoustics. And also, keep in mind, this is just a temporary place, so I'm not opening the wallet that much (I already have a lot saved for the new studio)...

Well, thanks for reading, and hope someone has some nice suggestions

p.s.: photo stitching isn't perfect, but you get the picture...

[avare]

Read the last three days posts to get a flavour for what is involved. Then Ethan and/or John's excellent articles on studio setup.

Enjoy!

Andre

[DanDan]

Is that a tiled floor? Aaaargh. It must be hellish in there.
If you wish to treat, by treatment that can move to your next room.
GIK and RealTraps have easily mountable products. There are even stands available. Their websites have great 'how to treat' articles. However, your room..... just get as many Mid Hi frequency dampening panels as you can.

OR, don't bother. Get a pair of Sennheiser HD600 and a great headphone amp. I have a DACS Headlite Mk2. The SPL ones with the headphone cross bleed circuitry are probably very good too. The Rane ones have also always sounded great to me.

DD