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haha, yeah, that^

I'm not trying to abuse you here or anything, but it sounds like you're implying that making acoustic treatment from rockwool or rigid fiberglass is several orders of magnitude more costly than buying foam. I think for about ~$200 bucks (the cost of a mid-level Auralex kit) you could get a case...

No, he's not. He's asking a good (although kind of vague and misguided question), that will ultimately yield him some favorable results if he's smart enough to listen to his fellow forum members who've done their research and who speak from experience. No one here rags on people for asking...

This is a true story.

...and "gobos"

I seem to recall watching a show years ago where they used stacked tires, filled them with earth and stucco'd those. I beleive that was out in the deseret in the southwest or something. Cool concept, but some practical issues, imo especially if you're in a wet climate.

I suppose you could layer pieces on top of pieces to make some sort of diffusers... but you'd want to do something about the edges so they don't continually drop drywall dust. I'd pitch em.

Give it time. You spent the last several years getting used to the sound of a room (for better or worse). Treating the room will make it sound different. Its gonna take you some back and forth and some time to get used to the new environment. Have faith.

I just want to re-emphasize this. :D

just to be on the safe side, its best to not have a booth. :D

I play in a punk rock band, so "loud drummer" is a fact of life for me. Obviously, since acoustic drums don't have a volume knob, OP would have to crank up the volume on the guitars and PA amps to get into the mix. The problem with doing that in an untreated room (especially a small one) is that...

Me too. If you're the musician AND the engineer like a lot of us are around here, a single room can be very practical.

Personally, I couldn't imagine trying to have a band practice all in headphones. I'd spend that money on acoustic treatment (and NOT foam, or blankets or egg crates) before I went for a headphone amp and bunch a cans. That room is small, but you can make your treatments so that you can move them...

You can fill in that blank with just about anything. ProTools? Mac? PC? Lavalamp? I'm not in business. If I was, I'd have properly built rooms to achieve the isolation and acoustics I needed.

Not me... I'll shut off the furnace for a bit if I need to. My studio is in my basement, with one wall separating it from the furnace. I've never found a need for a booth in any of my modest home-recording endeavors. As for the STC, there is a standard ASTM test method for establishing STC...

Its all good. He hasn't been back to correct me. I even went back and looked at his links again. Still no stc ratings. :)

this^^^ You'll (not you Lou, the OP) be amazed at how much easier it will be to listen and hear everything while you're playing together in a treated space. Even if you're not recording, it makes a world of difference!

They list NRC number which is not relevant to the stopping of sound from inside to out. There are standard methods for testing STC... and it didn't say anything that said STC in the literature. You are right though, I didn't spend much time on either site, but you'd think that would be...

For some reason, I don't see STC values listed for the products on either of those sites. I have a feeling I know why.

carpet on your walls is a bad idea. aside from being flammable (and more of a risk in a vertical application as opposed to a flooring app), its not a good acoustic treatment. Go for rockwool or rigid fiberglass broadband absorbers.