Intro to Acoustic Treatment - HomeStudioCorner.com

[sahlertz8]

Hey Man!

First of all, I want to let you know that your videos and your website is SO helpful! so thank you 'bout that!

My question is, I'm going to move to another house, probably soon, and I'm gonna' make my bedroom in to a studio. But, I wondered if it would be nice to put Acoustic Treatment all over the place, like all over the place right? I've herd 'bout a lot of guys who are saying stuff like: Oh your killing the room or It's gonna' sound unnatural, so i thought I'd ask you.

-God Bless.

[HomeStudioCorner]

Most acoustic professionals will tell you that you can never have too much bass trapping.

[Voiceguardian]

Good video, thanks!

Do you think basstraps should cover every corner from floor to ceiling?

Or does just a bit of "basstrapping" make a big difference?

Also what about the corners between wall / ceiling and wall / floor?

[JRuni0r]

@Voiceguardian -If you can trap all your corners & your ceiling/walls junctions then do it. Small rooms, smaller than 2500 sqft then you really can't have too much bass trapping. Besides, ceiling/wall junctions are easier to part with space than say your wall corners. As far as your bare walls, you want to cover the wall your speakers are facing (Behind your mix position), behind your speakers (more important if your monitors are rear firing bass ports) and lastly your first reflection points

[Voiceguardian]

@JRuni0r well, my first reflections are kind of covered,

for low-mids to highs that is.

I just wondered, if I cover my corners with bass-traps,

do I really have to cover my ceiling to walls, or floor to walls?

I know the best advice I can get is: get the stuff, put it up, and listen to the difference...

Just trying to get some objective feedback here.

Thanks for your response JRuni0r...

[Voiceguardian]

@JRuni0r oh btw, lastly the first reflection points?

I always assumed these were the first to get fixed.

Worked for me though.

The only trouble I have now is the bass...

[JRuni0r]

@Voiceguardian By 'lastly' I was just listing, not putting them in priority. You don't 'have' to do anything. It's the notion that it's very difficult to over treat a room (of course someone will come here and say too much will make a room dead) i.e Anechoic, but those rooms are million dollar rooms - you won't achieve that. The most important are your corners, if you CAN do your wall/ceiling junctions then do it (the space you loose is most likely unimportant anyways).

[JRuni0r]

@Voiceguardian Also, for bass you need thickness. So your corners get get triangle cut fiberglass foam board stacked into them. 6inches, 8, 10 whatever you can spare but other than specifically tuned bass traps, you'll need to fill those corners with absorbent materials. There are many kinds of bass traps out there, a little web research will show you how many different ways there are to achieve your goals. Either way, treatment will yield the most benefit compared to hardware.

[nerwin]

Good info, but those foams are really expensive!!

[morrissteven]

You brought up some good points. After I put up homemade bass traps/broad band absorbers my room got so much better. I could really hear the lows more clearly like you described. For most home studio/project studio guys though, home made traps are the way to go. It takes a lot of effort, but you can save thousands of dollars.

[austinm08]

Nice, simple explanation for those new to acoustic treatment.

[HomeStudioCorner]

Check this out the link attached to this video. It's a LIVE course that will go IN DEPTH into acoustic treatment, and you can keep all the video recordings from the courses.

[MrMusic95]

Thank you Joe, i wanna learn more, keep posting acoustic treatment videos!! :)