$99.00 Studio foam - For those who have been looking

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I've been tempted by this sale price before. Anyone out there with an opinion on this package willing to share??? (your opinion, that is...)

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Oh Yeah this is NOT the roominator kit

Correction. ITs just the home kit. Which is still at a half decent price. I just spent 360.00 bucks for studio foam in a vocal booth. Auralex. This package wouldnt have helped me much because I needed just foam, no traps or diffusors.

R.
 
good price ... but there's no LENRDs in that package :(
still, worth consideration though ... thanks
 
everyone's gotta start somewhere

would this kind of kit be good for my little closet (TRAPEZOID (whoo-hoo!) in shape, 5 ft long, 3 ft at widest point, low ceiling, plaster walls) where i plan on recording vocals?
 
IF its Bare....

Well, it all depends on what kinda sound you want to get. PArticular if its a vocal booth, you may or may not benefit from a kit like this, it just depends.

I wanted my vocal booth totally dry, no reverberation or bounce at all. i do a lot of R&B, and pop vocals and stuff, and I just like working with a dry signal.

Having said that, I covered walls and CEiling and door, with Auralex and it was a 4x5 vocal booth. That costs me upwards of 300 bucks. You will not get that kinda of coverage for 99.00 just because of price of product, but you may get likeable results. What does it sound like if you just go in there and sing? Is it a lot of bounce, is there any ambience to the sound? etc etc

R.
 
just went down there. it's somewhat reverb-y. not up to par with the shower, but half way there. definitely a hollowy reverb sound there. walls all bare. don't i want sound not to bounce around for clean vocals? also, will this auralex home kit keep sound out too? the closet is in the basement on the side of the house facing the street, and you guessed it.. hello trucks and cars... then again my hearing is very sensitive, but if i can hear it it's a possibility that the mic will pick up some rumbling..and what's the diff between minifusors and plain old wedgies? Thanks!
 
BG - here is my opinion

Well on the question of will it block sound. I have found that when I put this in my vocal booth, it did help block more sound than was originally being blocked by the triple sheet rocking and blue underlayment that I had place on the walls.

Not much though.

The soundproofness of your closet is going to be determined by the way the walls were built and stuff, originally. The only thing you can do now is go back and try to do afterwards sound proofing.

ummm....minifusors and wedgies:
Minifusors is just a name for one of Auralex's diffusors, and Wedgies are just the name for there 1x1 Sq Wedge(Blade) foam. This pertains to the shape of the foam....some are blades or wedges, others are pyramid shaped, etc etc. Diffusors are basically objects place on walls in studios, to keep waves from standing(bouncing back and forth). They are used to break up the angle of the wall they are placed on, and create multiple angles to stop the sound from bouncing back and forth from wall to wall. They come in ALL shapes and sizes. There are theories on which shapes work better than others as well.

Have you actually recorded in the room? I would try that, if you have, and you found that the room wouldnt give you that upclose and personal vocal recording that you like, then I guess 99 bucks wouldnt be a bad purchase, cause you can always reuse the kit, as long as you dont glue it to hard to the wall.

I would think that it would at least take away the reverberation sound, if you could line the wedges up, around the wall, making a continous line (360 degrees). You have 1ft of up or down to play with, so you can position them on the wall for and average height and see if that works. If 24 will make it all the way around.

Do you have any pics of the closet? or a snippet of a recording you have done from the closet? If so let me know you could post them here or something, and see what kinda help we can suggest.

R.
 
bg,
i have a few answers for you...

this stuff is for sound treatment, not sound proofing. it works on controlling the sounds inside your space. if you're using a condenser mic, and you hear the street sounds in your ears, your mic will most likely pic the sounds up. if your mic is a cardioid pattern, facing the back of the mic towards the street might help a bit.

i don't know about the diff between minifusors and wedgies...

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OK so what do you get for your $99.

you get 24 sq feet of foam. That's equivalent to a 6 x 4 sheet. Now go and price a 6 x 4 sheet of rigid insulation or check out the price of a packet of home insulation.

Lets look at the absorption coefficients of these products.

1. Auralex Wedgies:

125Hz 0.15
250hz 0.21
500hz 0.7
1000hz 0.99
2000hz 1.05
4000hz 1.05

2. Rigid Fibreglass

125Hz 0.4
250hz 0.6
500hz 1.1
1000hz 1.25
2000hz 1.3
4000hz 1.09

The higher the figure the higher the amount of absorption. They speak for themselves.

Now the diffusors they offer - these are just moulded bits of plastic pretending to be diffusors.

In my view - forgetit!!

cheers
John
 
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For ME....the look versus the better...

Low end absortion is why I chose them. You are right about the Diffusors they have though, they are nothing more than plastic.

Like I say, it all depends on what you want, and how you want it to look.

R.

I may try the insulation with my new wall panels. Does anyone have a picture of some of these, that they have and how professional they can be made to look?
 
plastic or not, the diffusers still do what they need to do? diffuse, that is?
 
raerae28 - if you look at the figures I posted rigid insulation outperforms auralex in the low end as well.

yes it can look OK - it's behind the coloured wall in this photo

cheers
john
 

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John Sayers said:
raerae28 - if you look at the figures I posted rigid insulation outperforms auralex in the low end as well.

yes it can look OK - it's behind the coloured wall in this photo

cheers
john

Nice piano..

But I cant tell what the hell you are talking about.
 
John Sayers said:
raerae28 - if you look at the figures I posted rigid insulation outperforms auralex in the low end as well.

yes it can look OK - it's behind the coloured wall in this photo

cheers
john

How do you install/build...hmm...how do I say it? How would I use the insulation technique (instead of foam) and still make it look good. :)

I still dont know if I asked that properly.
 
Ok, John. Not sure I am grasping what you have done here. Did you place the timbers on top of the rigid insulation? Or am I missing a step. The studio looks great by the way.
 
hi john,
How much Rigid Fibreglass do I need for a ca. 3x3m room? where should I place it and with what to cover it?
thanx a lot
guy
 
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