
GhostsonAcid
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Hello,
So I recently finished renovating my relatively small music-editing room. Like many people, I didn't have much of a budget... -but I did have time, some building skills, and basic creativity. Believe it or not, but in the end I spent less than 200€/$ on all of my 13 panels and speaker stands. So yes, with some basic skills and some time it is possible to easily make your own, effective sound panels/traps for a tiny, tiny fraction of the cost of buying them new. Hopefully this post will lend some ideas and inspiration to others out there who wish to do a similar thing!
(I would also like to note that, although probably not that necessary in my case, I designed and 3D-printed some spring-based “isolation feet” for my Yamaha HS7 speakers, -designs I will link to here when I get around to uploading them to my Thingiverse page...)
? Step 1: Determine the best possible location(s) for the listening position, speakers, and various potential sound panels.
The room in question is pretty small, with length/width/height ≈ 4.6 x 2.4 x 2.4m (or ≈ 15' x 7'10” x 7'10”) (-although an empty 20-25cm (8-10”) cavity in the ceiling effectively brings the height to 2.6+m (8'6”+), -something I was reminded of later via a prominent room-mode resonance peak at ~137Hz for heights at around 260, not 240cm (-more info. below)).
There is a noticeably off-center fireplace, two windows, a brick-wall portion in just one of the corners, and a door adjacent to one of the preferred listening-positions... -all not ideal, but whatcha gonna do? … -Actually, go to Homerecording.com, of course! So yeah, I posted here about it just to see what others might say...
Long story short, I chose the spot by the door. -It's a place with a window (-for my health; -for the light/trees/etc.), and a place where my head wouldn't have to be up-against the fireplace (-a big sound-reflector). Well, with that decided (and no initial speaker placement testing, like an idiot
), I used paper (and then FreeCAD) to help confirm viability of the location, and potential sound-panel placement/distribution, etc.:




Now, due to a 10-picture limit per post, I will continue in the comments below...
So I recently finished renovating my relatively small music-editing room. Like many people, I didn't have much of a budget... -but I did have time, some building skills, and basic creativity. Believe it or not, but in the end I spent less than 200€/$ on all of my 13 panels and speaker stands. So yes, with some basic skills and some time it is possible to easily make your own, effective sound panels/traps for a tiny, tiny fraction of the cost of buying them new. Hopefully this post will lend some ideas and inspiration to others out there who wish to do a similar thing!
(I would also like to note that, although probably not that necessary in my case, I designed and 3D-printed some spring-based “isolation feet” for my Yamaha HS7 speakers, -designs I will link to here when I get around to uploading them to my Thingiverse page...)
? Step 1: Determine the best possible location(s) for the listening position, speakers, and various potential sound panels.
The room in question is pretty small, with length/width/height ≈ 4.6 x 2.4 x 2.4m (or ≈ 15' x 7'10” x 7'10”) (-although an empty 20-25cm (8-10”) cavity in the ceiling effectively brings the height to 2.6+m (8'6”+), -something I was reminded of later via a prominent room-mode resonance peak at ~137Hz for heights at around 260, not 240cm (-more info. below)).
There is a noticeably off-center fireplace, two windows, a brick-wall portion in just one of the corners, and a door adjacent to one of the preferred listening-positions... -all not ideal, but whatcha gonna do? … -Actually, go to Homerecording.com, of course! So yeah, I posted here about it just to see what others might say...
Long story short, I chose the spot by the door. -It's a place with a window (-for my health; -for the light/trees/etc.), and a place where my head wouldn't have to be up-against the fireplace (-a big sound-reflector). Well, with that decided (and no initial speaker placement testing, like an idiot





Now, due to a 10-picture limit per post, I will continue in the comments below...
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