carpet padding for room treatment

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77766613 said:
carpet padding....
will this work?
if not, why ??
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You mean the stuff under a rug? hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I don't know?
You'll have to wait till an expert on acoustic treatment comes by and give it a yeah or a nay.

Where the heck is Ethan?







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nope.
All it's gonna do is knock off a skosh of the highs and the highs aren't where problems lie in most home studios. The problems are almost always in the lows. And usually builds up in corners.

The padding is too thin and the wrong material to do anything for the lows. ;)
 
thanks
i'll also be recording in this room too, its very small, 11' x 10'
i guess the only solution is some form of compressed insulation fiberglass?
for my ceiling because of my drum overheads and the walls for my vocals
?
 
77766613 said:
thanks
i'll also be recording in this room too, its very small, 11' x 10'
i guess the only solution is some form of compressed insulation fiberglass?
for my ceiling because of my drum overheads and the walls for my vocals
?
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There you go 777 ..... wrong stuff ~ and I bet you've got an endless supple of it, right?








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77766613 said:
thanks
i'll also be recording in this room too, its very small, 11' x 10'
i guess the only solution is some form of compressed insulation fiberglass?
for my ceiling because of my drum overheads and the walls for my vocals
?
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Your room is almost square. And small. Small square rooms are yelling for bass trapping.
If'n I were you, I'd START with some superchunks in the two corners to the left and right of your mixing desk and another pair in the corners behind it. They'll go from the floor to the ceiling.

I made some superchunks from some rockwool 60, 4 inches thick. They came in 2X4 sections that I cut in half...giving you two 2X2 sections from each sheet...then cut each of those halves from corner to corner. These give you a bunch of triangles 17"X24"X24". Take those and just stack em in the corners one on top of the other til ya reach the ceiling.
Then I covered em with fabric and nailed some nice trim to hold the fabric in place nice n tight.

Do a search around here and you'll get a better grip of what I'm yappin about. In fact, I made a thread here too.

Traps will be a good start for ya. They help with the tracking AND the mixing. ;)
 
I did a little experiment this morning, okay real informal and I was half cut. But I went into my upstairs rooms and listened to them with the door open, and closed. Holy shit, it totally changed the sound of the room. Each and every room got WAY bassier and boomier with the door closed. Then I tried various combinations of open and closed doors to see how it affected the sound in my spare bedroom/studio. Again there can be fairly significant changes in the sound of a room based on how open or closed the entire environment is. I'd start there if I were you, and I'm in the same boat, so that's where I'm going to start.

I guess the ideal would be to close off the room you're doing your stuff in and treat the living shit out of it, but I like the openness. And the room, to me, sounds 10 times better open than closed. Hell, I'd be best in the basement, but I hate being squirreled away underground, makes me feel like a Hobbit doing time.
 
The rating of a carpet pad is about a .3, which is good sometimes, but really the ultimate question is: What are you trying to accomplish? If you're in a band, and you're trying to eliminate some of the nuisance frequencies, I wouldn't go for carpet pad. You'll want something with a higher NRC rating.. like

If you have a loud puppy and it's bothering neighbors, then maybe the carpet pad would work. I would still go for the sheets though, since they're eco-friendly!

Hope this helps!!
-Dave & Mallory
 
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Jeff_D said:
^^so, are well allowing spam and bad advice from dealers now?
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I think a sharp word or two will take care of the spam angle. If the advice is bad go ahead and blow it up.


lou
 
well we can start with the fact that 0.7 NRC is far short of "exceptional". :D
Rockwool and rigid fiberglass easily attains a 1.0 or higher in stock thicknesses.

We can also point to the newb-est of mistakes; insinuating that the NRC of an absorptive surface within a space somehow has anything to do with the sound transmission to the outside of the space. Mixing up treatment/absorption/NRC with transmission loss/STC is a sure tell right off the bat (to me anyway) that this guy hasn't done all of his homework. I'm not impressed and I'm a bit annoyed (sure you can tell, lol) that he's presented himself as some sort of authority on the subject.
 
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Hammer away, Jeff. I don't know enough yet. Keeping it straight is job one or we all get hosed.


lou
 
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