acoustic treatment for a 10x10x8 bedroom

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here's my problem and its driving me nuts. I have a small square bedroom where I mostly do just mixing. after finalizing a mix and mastering it, it sounds pretty darn good. but when I burn a cd of the mix and play it somewhere else there tends to be a bass heavy sound and not enough of the highs. this room is not treated, so would maybe 2ft x 4ft corner bass traps help? looking online it seems that that ats has a product that would help , but quite expensive.,, any help would be appreciated... by the way i'm not a DIY kind of person ,.. just would like to buy an affordable option.thanks
 
In a room with those particular dimensions, you're talking about more trapping than you probably have room for. Fully trapping the corners would be a start - a start - to what you'll need.

Unopened bags of Roxul Safe n Sound stacked in the corners would be a very nice place to start....
 
You can build your own bass traps and save a lot over the commercial ones. Just google here or youtube. 4" thick (minimum). Square rooms are not good due to the standing waves that can be produced.
What monitors are you using?
 
If you can make up some decently sized gobos, you can interrupt the sound enough to help prevent some of the standing waves from forming. Also, take care with where your monitors are located in the room. A good exercise is to draw up your room and setup as a floor plan. Then use pencil to do some ray tracing (just straight lines from the speakers to the walls and their reflections). Then you can see where your treatment will be most effective (gobos, absorption, diffusion, etc.). Try to create a zone that is as reflection free as possible at the listening location. That's the beginnings of how the pro studios get designed.
 
thanks for the reply. I kinda figured it would help to trap all the corners. using presonus eris 7 monitors. should I go all the way from floor to ceiling?
 
thank you all, I jus hope I don't break the bank trying to fix this....VERY GOOD FORUM
 
Honestly, if you start with a non-square room you will save yourself a lot of headache.
But, then again, we don't always get what we want. :(
Take a look at This thread for pics on the easy way. Good pics at post #49. Bulk roxul is not too expensive, but is space consuming.
 
If you're not the DIY kinda guy then the folks at Acoustic Panels | Bass Traps | Diffusors | GIK Acoustics are reat folks to work with. They don't only just sell you treatment, they will consult with you to find the best treatment for your room at your budget. You won't get any mixes to translate over to other systms till you get some kind of treatment in the square room.
 
I think I'd ike to add that DIYing isn't that hard though. I'm totally blind and built all my treatment my self. Wall absorbers, corner traps and sofit traps. If I can do it, heck any one can.
 
Like you (and many others here as this is a "home recording" forum) I'm stuck with a square room as well (you're stuck with it - you'll learn to work with it). I put 2'x4'x6" Roxul S&S bass traps centered in the corners for now. It made an immediate difference in taming the bass. After that, like others will chime in: First reflections and a cloud overhead should get you to a good starting point. I found that even with just the bass traps and a fiddle with eq on the master, I can get something mixed decently for my own enjoyment. As an added bonus, since the rear two traps block doors, I put them on stands that I can move. So when recording vocals, I form a triangle to sing into during tracking. I then just slide them back to the corners for playback. :)
 
wmalan said:
Like you (and many others here as this is a "home recording" forum) I'm stuck with a square room as well (you're stuck with it - you'll learn to work with it). I put 2'x4'x6" Roxul S&S bass traps centered in the corners for now. It made an immediate difference in taming the bass. After that, like others will chime in: First reflections and a cloud overhead should get you to a good starting point. I found that even with just the bass traps and a fiddle with eq on the master, I can get something mixed decently for my own enjoyment. As an added bonus, since the rear two traps block doors, I put them on stands that I can move. So when recording vocals, I form a triangle to sing into during tracking. I then just slide them back to the corners for playback. :)
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Great fix, dude. My two back corners are doors, so I may try the "super chunk on wheels" method myself. Depends on how things work out when I get all the panels up and build the diffuser.
 
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Chipster said:
If you're not the DIY kinda guy then the folks at Acoustic Panels | Bass Traps | Diffusors | GIK Acoustics are reat folks to work with. They don't only just sell you treatment, they will consult with you to find the best treatment for your room at your budget. You won't get any mixes to translate over to other systms till you get some kind of treatment in the square room.
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not diy. after doing some research, i'm down to purchasing corner bass traps from gik or ats acoustics. any thought on these two products?
 
sparky123 said:
not diy. after doing some research, i'm down to purchasing corner bass traps from gik or ats acoustics. any thought on these two products?
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I would recommend GIK because the guy comes here once in a while to dispense advice. While he's not allowed, nor does he try, to advertise his own products or services at this site, others can do it for him.

My room is about the same size as yours and it works okay as a studio.
 
thanks for the reply.. I think i'll heed your advice and start with 2 traps and go on from there... this is the best forum I've ever visited.....
 
And to be honest for the price of buying those, you can get the Owens Corning from a store or a distribution center. I got 3 pieces for $ 64 (each 4 in thick). I think you pay that for one of theirs! Got some fabric from the store. Used some glue to wrap the fabric around it. Also the more bass traps the better. I have had for around 1 year now and fabric still holds strong.

I don't think you need a wooden frame and all that. The fiberglass is pretty rigid. Making the wooden frame and all that deters most people from making their own traps.
 
I will say, Sparky, that even though you are not a DIY person, doing what anoopbal is suggesting is very easy. Get a can of spray-on adhesive and some cheap thin fabric (thin enough to blow through) from the clearance bin at Walmart. Completely cover the OC703 panels and stack them in the corners. You can use thumbtacks to hold them to the walls.

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And to be honest for the price of buying those, you can get the Owens Corning from a store or a distribution center. I got 3 pieces for $ 64 (each 4 in thick). I think you pay that for one of theirs! Got some fabric from the store. Used some glue to wrap the fabric around it. Also the more bass traps the better. I have had for around 1 year now and fabric still holds strong.

I don't think you need a wooden frame and all that. The fiberglass is pretty rigid. Making the wooden frame and all that deters most people from making their own traps.
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Acoustimac makes kits. You order the rockwool panels of size you want and they send a kit with or without mounting hardware, with or without back. The frames are built and the fiberglass inside and all you've got to do is staple/glue on the fabric. The kits are considerably cheaper than buying pre-made traps. Their corner traps are just 6" 703/Roxul on the front of a frame, not superchunk. They work well, but it's better to cut and stack and fabric over your corners. :D
 
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Here is a pic. I covered a couple of them with plastic film. You can lean them against the wall too.
 
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