oldskooldave
Your Mother
Cos my brother eats a lot of eggs and i might just start saving the cartons
Seidy
New member
work for what? 
for room acoustics they don't work. there's even a test somewhere, maybe somebody can post a link, or you could search yourself.
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http://www.acousticsfirst.com/eggc.htm
for room acoustics they don't work. there's even a test somewhere, maybe somebody can post a link, or you could search yourself.
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http://www.acousticsfirst.com/eggc.htm
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Richard Monroe
Well-known member
Absolutely! Everybody says they don't work, but it's bullshit. Each one of them will hold a dozen eggs. What's not to love?-Richie
oldskooldave
Your Mother
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they seem to think that they do work in that link
work for what?
for room acoustics they don't work. there's even a test somewhere, maybe somebody can post a link, or you could search yourself.
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http://www.acousticsfirst.com/eggc.htm
they seem to think that they do work in that link
philbagg
Just Killing Time
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Harvey Gerst
New member
After I nailed the egg cartons to the wall, all the eggs kept falling out.
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Greg_L
Banned
I don't know about egg cartons, but I've heard one, and only one, instance of eggshell foam working. There's a guy here that goes by PoeticIntesity, and he did an A/B test with tracking drums in a plain untreated room, and then the same room with eggshell foam. There was a noticeable difference.
oldskooldave
Your Mother
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and need i even mention that in Ransom the movie, they coat the room where they keep the kidnapped kid in egg boxes, to prevent sound leakage
and need i even mention that in Ransom the movie, they coat the room where they keep the kidnapped kid in egg boxes, to prevent sound leakage
witzendoz
Senior Member
EGG CARTONS yet again..............sigh!
Alan
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philbagg
Just Killing Time
1) Mel Gibson wasn't a raging alcoholic in it either. Don't believe everything you see in movies
2) That's sound-proofing, not acoustical treatment.
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Greg_L
Banned
I never saw that movie.
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Richard Monroe
Well-known member
Harvey- the nails are the problem. You should've used egg glue!
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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
Well heck, up here in New Hampsha puttn' up egg cratins work just fine.
Just confuses the hell out of the chickens.
Just confuses the hell out of the chickens.
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Rod Gervais
New member
No they don't.........
the fact that a product has a NRC value doesn't mean that it works........
A human body has a NRC value as well - that doesn't mean they will serve the purpose for room treatments........
to begin with a NRC OF .4 is not much in the way of noise reduction.
Then there is this comment made by Acoustics First:
Just a quick glance at the numbers tells the whole story.
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Rod Gervais
New member
Harvey - that's just because you used the wrong nails.........
oldskooldave
Your Mother
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I didn't understand the numbers, but I wouldn't use egg cartons, I just thought id hold on to some and put them on the walls of my wardrobe and see what it sounded like, obviously I wouldn't literally build and entire studio with egg carton walls, and toilet paper tube microphones and bits of trees for guitars and cardboard box amps...actually..
I didn't understand the numbers, but I wouldn't use egg cartons, I just thought id hold on to some and put them on the walls of my wardrobe and see what it sounded like, obviously I wouldn't literally build and entire studio with egg carton walls, and toilet paper tube microphones and bits of trees for guitars and cardboard box amps...actually..
Todzilla
New member
And egg cartons are arguably even worse at sound proofing than at acoustical treatment.
Certainly egg foam has no appreciable effect on sound-proofing.
I'm an expert, 'cause I did the egg carton thing back in the 70s and it didn't do shit.
grimtraveller
If only for a moment.....
The left says yes, the right says no - and the more I learn, the less I know........
An interesting quote by the late producer Tony Clarke (sometime known for his work with the Moody Blues in their hot phase and for trying to record King Crimson before their debut) talking about recording the Equals' "Baby come back", recorded in 1966 (though it was a hit in '68. It's one of the earliest songs I remember and the band was racially mixed which was really rare for the UK at the time)
I joined Home recording.com for this ?
Maybe buy him a couple of hens to reduce the temptation ?
The subject of egg cartons invokes surprizing passions but what I find confusing is that there are obviously times when something noticeable happens. Greg says he heard a noticeable difference and even if it only happened once, he reckons it happened. Who's going to flame him ? The point being that we often advise or are advised "trust your ears", even over science sometimes. Because science is not infallible. Of course we ain't either, I understand that. If someone says "I heard a difference", did they or didn't they ? If someone else says "It makes no difference at all", is that fact that has been accepted as such and therefore that person doesn't listen with critical ears to see if they can hear any, even if minor, difference ?
Where I stand on the issue is that I haven't got a clue, that's me, Santa Clueless
. I find the debate fascinating and long into the decade may it continue. It's getting to be like religious and political debates !
Funnilly enough, if you put a toilet roll centrepiece over a mic, you can get a neat 'tubular' quality to what you record ! And isn't a guitar just a bit of tree anyway.....?
An interesting quote by the late producer Tony Clarke (sometime known for his work with the Moody Blues in their hot phase and for trying to record King Crimson before their debut) talking about recording the Equals' "Baby come back", recorded in 1966 (though it was a hit in '68. It's one of the earliest songs I remember and the band was racially mixed which was really rare for the UK at the time)
I joined Home recording.com for this ?
Maybe buy him a couple of hens to reduce the temptation ?
and egg crates for diffusing on the inside.
Ok all you perfectionists and sound engineers...pick away!!
Not sound proof, but isolates my condenser mics from computer fans and most peripheral noise. Actually, considering the mony I got in it (Couple hundred or so) it works pretty damned good.
EGG CARTONS yet again..............sigh!
Alan
The subject of egg cartons invokes surprizing passions but what I find confusing is that there are obviously times when something noticeable happens. Greg says he heard a noticeable difference and even if it only happened once, he reckons it happened. Who's going to flame him ? The point being that we often advise or are advised "trust your ears", even over science sometimes. Because science is not infallible. Of course we ain't either, I understand that. If someone says "I heard a difference", did they or didn't they ? If someone else says "It makes no difference at all", is that fact that has been accepted as such and therefore that person doesn't listen with critical ears to see if they can hear any, even if minor, difference ?
Where I stand on the issue is that I haven't got a clue, that's me, Santa Clueless
. I find the debate fascinating and long into the decade may it continue. It's getting to be like religious and political debates !Funnilly enough, if you put a toilet roll centrepiece over a mic, you can get a neat 'tubular' quality to what you record ! And isn't a guitar just a bit of tree anyway.....?
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Greg_L
Banned
I don't reckon it happened, it did happen. I heard the difference. I questioned it though and I'm still not 100% sure the dude was being totally up front about eggshell foam being the only difference in the room.