Hi, all
I'm trying to set up a room in my new house
for my fiancee (she's the musical one - I
just am the tech/build/whatever guy (I can't
hold a tune in a paper bag)) to practice,
jam, compose, maybe do a bit of recording. She's primarily a trumpet player, btw - loud, high instrument, but she also play keys, trombone and sings, so it has to be pretty decent sounding in just about all ranges.
The problem is that almost all the walls are brick and when she plays in there the echoes are just about deafening. We tried putting up some blankets on the walls (just as a test) and that helped quite a bit.
So (and here comes the question), I want to put up something to absorb the sound. We don't, I think, necessarily want a dead sounding room, we just want to seriously cut back the echoes. What I am thinking about is making a series of 3' x 6' x 2" frames out of wood, stuffing them with accoustical insulation stuff (I saw some stuff at home depot that claims to be good for absorbing sound) and wrapping them in fabric and hanging those panels on the walls.
I would think that would work - and it would make it relatively easy to play with the panel locations to get the nicest sound. I could even remove or replace them, depending on what is going to be playing in there.
The room is fairly small (10' x 11') but it is the only room that we can use (the others are smaller)
What do you think? I like it because we can choose the colours - pretty, I can make it fairly easily and because we can change things around depending on what we're doing. I'd like a second (or third, or sixth) opinion, though, which is where the illustrious members of this forum come in. Comments?
I'm trying to set up a room in my new house
for my fiancee (she's the musical one - I
just am the tech/build/whatever guy (I can't
hold a tune in a paper bag)) to practice,
jam, compose, maybe do a bit of recording. She's primarily a trumpet player, btw - loud, high instrument, but she also play keys, trombone and sings, so it has to be pretty decent sounding in just about all ranges.
The problem is that almost all the walls are brick and when she plays in there the echoes are just about deafening. We tried putting up some blankets on the walls (just as a test) and that helped quite a bit.
So (and here comes the question), I want to put up something to absorb the sound. We don't, I think, necessarily want a dead sounding room, we just want to seriously cut back the echoes. What I am thinking about is making a series of 3' x 6' x 2" frames out of wood, stuffing them with accoustical insulation stuff (I saw some stuff at home depot that claims to be good for absorbing sound) and wrapping them in fabric and hanging those panels on the walls.
I would think that would work - and it would make it relatively easy to play with the panel locations to get the nicest sound. I could even remove or replace them, depending on what is going to be playing in there.
The room is fairly small (10' x 11') but it is the only room that we can use (the others are smaller)
What do you think? I like it because we can choose the colours - pretty, I can make it fairly easily and because we can change things around depending on what we're doing. I'd like a second (or third, or sixth) opinion, though, which is where the illustrious members of this forum come in. Comments?
