Treating New Studio, Totally Lost

[Ethan Winer]

A room that small really does need to be mostly dead. You can add reverb later that's better quality than the sound of a small room. There's a ton of advice all over this forum for how to treat small rooms. Or start here:

Acoustic Basics

Also, a peaked / arched ceiling needs absorption underneath the peak / curve to avoid focusing, as shown in the photo below.

--Ethan

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The Acoustic Treatment Experts

[BootsyGraham]

Hey Ethan, thanks for the links. I've been reading all of your articles and they are really great and informative. I understand that I need bass traps in the corners and on the ceiling where the arch is. What I don't understand is what else I need. Should I build more bass traps (4 inch 703) and put them on the walls or put some 2 inch 703 panels along the walls? How do I know if it is going to kill certain frequencies that I don't want taken away? Are my blankets useful for anything? If I fold them and hang multiple blankets in the corners of the room over each other, could they act as bass traps? Where is a decent place in the room that I could put the auralex? I know that every room is different but I'm trying to do my research and before I buy anything else, I want to understand how and why.

[Glenn Kuras]

See the following newsletter we just did on treating a live room.
GIK Acoustics Class Room -Live Room Acoustics

[Ethan Winer]

Originally Posted by BootsyGraham

How do I know if it is going to kill certain frequencies that I don't want taken away?

It doesn't work that way. The more absorption you add to a room, the flatter the response becomes. Peaks come down and nulls come up. The risk is using absorption that's too thin to improve the full range of frequencies evenly. So it's dead at mid and high frequencies but not at low frequencies.

Are my blankets useful for anything?

Sleeping?

Seriously, blankets and thin foam are exactly what you don't want because they absorb only high frequencies as just explained above

--Ethan