Home Professional Studio: Floor/Wall/Bass Traps/soundproofing

[Pan Papason]

I have just moved from a countryside home in Ibiza to an Attic in Barcelona Center and would like to treat the room for acoustics with a small budget and without any construction as it is a rented flat.. i am producing electronic dance music in my mackies 824 so i have some bass issues to deal with in the room definitely...
i shall be putting some fotos of the room and asking for advice but first i want to ask what kind of floor carpet could i use? i have been told i need a rubber carpet floor under the actual carpet... i want to buy the floor stuff first ..so i can place equipment and furniture on it and then start doing/buying the panels for the walls..

cheers

[johndykstra]

simply put, you can not sound proof without construction. Not even a little bit.

[Pan Papason]

Originally Posted by johndykstra

simply put, you can not sound proof without construction. Not even a little bit.

ok thanx mate, i was just checking if there is a way around it...

[Smithcok]

Originally Posted by Pan Papason

I have just moved from a countryside home in Ibiza to an Attic in Barcelona Center and would like to treat the room for acoustics but also i want to ask if l could combine acoustics with soundproofing as one of the walls is connected to a neighbor .. all of these with a small budget ofcourse and without any construction as it is a rented flat.. i am producing electronic dance music in my mackies 824 so i have some bass issues to deal with in the room definitely...
i shall be putting some fotos of the room and asking for advice but first i want to ask what kind of floor carpet could i use? i have been told i need a rubber carpet floor under the actual carpet... i want to buy the floor stuff first ..so i can place equipment and furniture on it and then start doing/buying the panels for the walls..

cheers

Putting absorbtion/diffusion/etc. on the walls will help the room sound better inside, but will do basically nothing for isolation (which is usually heavy, expensive, complicated, and involved).

[Pan Papason]

Thanx for the soundproofing info guys l have now updated the thread..
cheers

[Pan Papason]

Now as u can see on the scetch i have all dimensions, the purpose of the room is mixing electronic dance music, i have been reading a lot on the forum regarding acoustics ..what is my best and affordable option here..please help..

cheers

[Ethan Winer]

Originally Posted by Pan Papason

i have been reading a lot on the forum regarding acoustics ..what is my best and affordable option here.

There is no best, and if there were it wouldn't be very affordable.

Start here:

Acoustic Basics

Tons more here:

RealTraps Articles
RealTraps Videos

As you'll read, the key is as many corner bass traps as possible, plus absorption at the loudspeaker reflection points. Diffusion on the rear wall is nice too, but that costs more.

--Ethan

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[Glenn Kuras]

Originally Posted by Pan Papason

Now as u can see on the scetch i have all dimensions, the purpose of the room is mixing electronic dance music, i have been reading a lot on the forum regarding acoustics ..what is my best and affordable option here..please help..

cheers

The best bang for the buck is making your own, but that pretty much goes with anything in life.
see the following as a guide for set up.
http://www.gikacoustics.com/room_setup.php

As you'll read, the key is as many corner bass traps as possible, plus absorption at the loudspeaker reflection points. Diffusion on the rear wall is nice too, but that costs more.

spot on!thumbsup

[Pan Papason]

now as my wall is 290cm high and the ready made bass traps are 120cm so 2 of them would leave me a space of 50cm...is that good? and where is best to leave the space..top or bottom?..
also i own 4 small plastic diffusers of auralex..if u know which i mean ..what can i do with them? rear wall or top of my chair on the ceiling?
regarding the rear wall i have a shelf furniture where i am going to fill up with records and books.. i know it might be a myth that something like that is like a diffuser but will it help at all?

cheers guys

[jhbrandt]

Pan,

Traps are more efficient in tri-corners so you may want to have the 50cm space in the middle...

Put the auralex diffusers on the back wall.

Book shelves make better absorbers than diffusers - but they are best at shelving books. -- they do that real good.

Cheers,
John

[Pan Papason]

Thanx John