Egg cartons on wall

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Hello, I am thinking about doing a recording soon, nowhere near a professional recording, but hopefully alittle better than the standard basement recording.

My question is, I've seen people put egg cartons on their wall, I think to dampen the sound or something? Please correct me if I'm wrong. Is this done to help the recording process? If so, what does this do to help the recording process? Is it just to prevent the sound from leaking outside? I've seen people do similiar things with foam and rugs, is this to achieve a similiar effect?
 
Egg cartons are a good way to make your room extremely flammable. And to make things worse, they do absolutely nothing for room treatment, much less sound proofing.

But go for it.
 
I strongly disagree with the above statements.

If your refrigerator is getting crowded; i.e. there was a big sale at the nearby grocery store, and you are running out of room ...

Then I think it makes a very practical means of clearing out space in your refrigerator. Also, if you get hungry, you can just grab an egg or two off of your wall, whip it up with some milk, dunk a piece of bread in it, fry in a lightly-greased skillet over medium temperature for 5-10 minutes, flipping when golden-brown spots appear ... then you have a very tasty breakfast known as french toast.

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It's not egg cartons you're seeing on the walls. It's most likely some type of auralex foam that has that similar pattern. Not even close to the same thing though. Even auralex isn't great.
 
Sonixx said:
with an understanding how to apply it for a given application, Auralex works very well.
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what he means is: If you're a professional, you don't even need any wall treatment, you just have to tell the sound waves waht to do and they do it for you:eek:
 
jonnyc said:
It's not egg cartons you're seeing on the walls. It's most likely some type of auralex foam that has that similar pattern. Not even close to the same thing though. Even auralex isn't great.
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actually...egg crates are used in a lot of low budget home studios. There was even a movie recently that had some rapper in it who had egg crates all over the wall. I laughed. They think if you put anything on the wall that has that bumpy pattern, then it'll be the same thing.
 
Egg crates might dampen the sound somewhat, but I think they would mostly be functioning as a diffuser.
 
SonicAlbert said:
Egg crates might dampen the sound somewhat, but I think they would mostly be functioning as a diffuser.
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that's true for just about anything you put on the wall though. You just have to consider how MUCH it's diffusing or absorbing. And with eggcrates I'd have to venture that there's not much to warrant use as acoustic treatment.
 
IMO: Wall treatments are a waste of time; unless you are really going to change the dimensions of the room....something that goes beyond "home recording". :D
 
The Axis said:
IMO: Wall treatments are a waste of time; unless you are really going to change the dimensions of the room....something that goes beyond "home recording". :D
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depends on what you're trying to accomplish. And technically wall treatment does change the dimensions of the room. Broadband absorbers on the walls and bass traps in the corners can do wonders. And it doesn't take much effort
 
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bennychico11 said:
depends on what you're trying to accomplish. And technically wall treatment do change the dimensions of the room. Broadband absorbers on the walls and bass traps in the corners can do wonders. And it doesn't take much effort
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Agreed. It doesn't take much effort or money at all to put some removable bass traps in the corners, a few small diffusers to stop first reflections off the sidewalls and ceiling, and proper desk/monitor placement within the room and you have the dfiierence between a disaster and a very translatable room. Half the time much of that can be halfway decently acconplished with the intelligent placement and selection of furniture, window dressing and a bookshelf or three.

G.
 
Back in the 80's I saw egg cartons (flats actually) used a lot in practice spaces. They do seem to add additional transmission loss to a sheetrock wall. But I agree they have no usefull purpose in a recording environment, and they do make great bonfire accellerators.
 
Egg cartons did MUCH better than I thought they would in that test!

With the peak of absorption being between 500-800 (about 80% absorption!!!), I think they could be VERY helpful in controlling that troublesome PA feedback range during band rehearsals.
 
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