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How well would this work?
I was thinking today about the problems of the AVERAGE home recorder who may not have a room that can be premanently dedicated to recording and might even be renting. (and are saving for a new microphone rather than planning thousands for construction)
This this idea hit me. I know its not perfect, but how well do you think it would work.
1. Take three sheets of the famous owens-corning 703 rigid fiberglass two inches thick.
2. Cover them in the preverbial burlap cloth, then connect the long edges to make a Z shape panel 4 foot by 6 foot fully open but foldable to a 2 by 4 stack 6 inches deep. The unit would weigh only a hair over 12 pounds.
3. punch two holes slightly in from the 4 foot edge, loop a cord through each and hang it from the ceiling. Since it is light you should only need some fairly lightweight hooks to hang it from. So you have a hanging 4 foot wide by six foot high sound absorber.
4. Do the same thing three more times to make yourself a 4 by 4 foot recording place surrounded by these sound panels. If the panels are flapping and bumping secure them to each other using velcro. If the floor is a hard surface then use a pad or carpet remmnant.
Now obviously this idea is not perfect. Sound will be getting out and in above, below, and between the panels, but the quantity of sound that will escape, bounce around the room, and then get back I would think would be greatly reduced over what might otherwise be able to be done with working in a room that still has to be used for its original purpose too. The obvious virtues of this idea is that it would only cost about a hundred dollars, could be taken down and packed into a 2 by 2 by 4 foot space in a minute, and would require no more construction than eight small screw holes in the ceiling.
But what I was hoping for your opinions on, was whether it would help enough to be worth doing?
I was thinking today about the problems of the AVERAGE home recorder who may not have a room that can be premanently dedicated to recording and might even be renting. (and are saving for a new microphone rather than planning thousands for construction)
This this idea hit me. I know its not perfect, but how well do you think it would work.
1. Take three sheets of the famous owens-corning 703 rigid fiberglass two inches thick.
2. Cover them in the preverbial burlap cloth, then connect the long edges to make a Z shape panel 4 foot by 6 foot fully open but foldable to a 2 by 4 stack 6 inches deep. The unit would weigh only a hair over 12 pounds.
3. punch two holes slightly in from the 4 foot edge, loop a cord through each and hang it from the ceiling. Since it is light you should only need some fairly lightweight hooks to hang it from. So you have a hanging 4 foot wide by six foot high sound absorber.
4. Do the same thing three more times to make yourself a 4 by 4 foot recording place surrounded by these sound panels. If the panels are flapping and bumping secure them to each other using velcro. If the floor is a hard surface then use a pad or carpet remmnant.
Now obviously this idea is not perfect. Sound will be getting out and in above, below, and between the panels, but the quantity of sound that will escape, bounce around the room, and then get back I would think would be greatly reduced over what might otherwise be able to be done with working in a room that still has to be used for its original purpose too. The obvious virtues of this idea is that it would only cost about a hundred dollars, could be taken down and packed into a 2 by 2 by 4 foot space in a minute, and would require no more construction than eight small screw holes in the ceiling.
But what I was hoping for your opinions on, was whether it would help enough to be worth doing?