Alternative Sound Proofing?

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Hey everyone! I have bought my recording equipment for my home studio and my next part is cutting out the sound in the room. There is a problem though--I live in an apartment and from what I keep finding online, there isn't any way to use sound-silencing foam without leaving marks or slightly damaging the walls. It sucks renting a place, because you can't manipulate the place without having to pay an insane fee or royally pissing off the landlord (Which will land you a one-way ticket to an eviction notice). At the moment, the only sound I get are the annoying sound waves that bounce off of my walls. So, are there any alternatives to sound-proofing my studio without doing any kind of damage to the walls? I will be using the new Kaotica Eyeball to hopefully cut most of the sound, but I still want to do what I can outside of the Eyeball. Any suggestions? Thanks!
 
I think you mean acoustic treatment. I have had a lot of success just laying duvets and blankets around the room. Or you could buy some acoustic foam and just lay it around the room in a non-permanent way.
 
Sound proofing and sound treatment are quite different things. I love Sound on Sound magazine's home studio visits to solve problems in people's recording spaces - well worth having a look on their website as a few of these studio SOS topics are available free without the subscription. In variable, they two people who do the visits swear by duvets - horrible ugly solutions to problems that are quick and easy to try to see if they solve the issues. When they do, in the right place, they then replace the duvets with proper acoustic products - although I'm sure lots of people are now dangling duvets from mic boom stands as a semi-permanent feature. Rented property is often the same problem as you have - you can't damage walls. They often have novel solutions to these problems - well worth a read, or even a subscription.
 
Hey guys! I apologize for the mess up on my part with sound-proofing and sound/acoustic treatment. Now, would it be more effect to just get the duvets flat against the wall, or should there be space in between the wall and duvet?
 
The only real rules in sound treatment depend on the sound of the problems in the room - so we can't really help. There is no rule that says you always do X, but don't do Y. The idea of the duvet is so you experiment until it you get the best results - on the wall, or away, high or low - have a fiddle and see what works in the space.
 
rob aylestone said:
The only real rules in sound treatment depend on the sound of the problems in the room - so we can't really help. There is no rule that says you always do X, but don't do Y. The idea of the duvet is so you experiment until it you get the best results - on the wall, or away, high or low - have a fiddle and see what works in the space.
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I'll just nail some duvets to my walls since I can easily fill the wholes with toothpaste or Spackle. That will hopefully work.
 
"Kaotic Eyeball" :facepalm:

Build broadband absorbant panels (bass traps), these can be stacked, moved, leaned against walls, hung from hooks, and are easy to take with your when you move and will serve you much better over time because they abosrb most all frequencies, not just the highs that a duvet/comforter/acoustic foam will.
 
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