?? Egg Cartons ??

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I find shelves & shelves of books works reasonably well compared to bare walls. Then again almost anything that breaks up the surface of the wall is a plus. I also find that the upright piano in the room works as a resonator & the sympathetic response of the strings makes things even worse.
I've recorded in places with egg carton walls & places with nothing but bare walls - early 80's - and the cartons did have an effect though not significant, not great, not comprehensively and not safely.
 
I actually recorded in a room with a big overstuffed couch...that did more to the sound than any wall treatments. I doubt that egg cartons would work very well...probably a very cheap way of treating the walls
 
I am actually curious about this. I don't mean to just put a layer of egg cartons all over the wall and think it is 'soundproofing' that's just silly it isn't dense enough.

But I wonder if, in combination with other stuff, it could add some 'dead' to a room since reflections wouldn't be all thrown all over the place and (if not the shiney styrofoam kind but the thick cardboard kind) instead of right off of the wall. In enough layers, or as an outer layer with a bunch of cardboard behind it (like broken down cardboard boxes) it could absorb a lot of stuff that would otherwise be bouncing right back off the walls. It won't stop sound getting out I imagine, but it would stop it bouncing around I would guess. I want to make an amp isolation box soon for my lil amp so I can turn it up with a mic inside the box and not bug my housemates as loudly, (so far its cinder blocks, bricks, thick blanket, and a carboard box housing, yet to be put together) just to see what it will sound like I may as well add a layer of egg too.

Now I want to try lining the inside with egg cartons just to see what difference it makes. Won't be a whole room, but a 3x3x3 box. I'll let yall know.
 
Short answer: no. But go ahead and try it. Tell us what you find out.


lou
 
well before you try that test you have to understand that theres a difference between soundproofing and sound absorption. soundproofing is preventing the sound from leaving the room. sound absorption is keeping the room dead. There's a process to this. every time a sound wave changes direction it is absorbed. so putting anything on the walls will help with this. but the idea is to have a hard dense surface behind absorbing materials. the sound goes through the material bounces off the hard surface then back through the material. if you put egg cartons on your wall, yea it will deflect the sound, but there's nothing else its going to do. thats why blankets work so well. or stuffed couches. to achieve a good sound in a mixing environment you have to manipulate the sound waves. experiment with different materials and different controlling surfaces to direct the sound where you want it to go. doesnt really matter what you use.
 
I understand making something outta nothing but please just get some money together and do it right the first time, egg cartons will look and make you feel cheap.
 
Jesus, people are still asking about egg crates????

Yes, they will change the sound of a room. They'll make it WORSE. The only "dead" they will add to the room will be high-end. So, now, instead of bass being about 85% of your problem (which is usually the case), now you're making bass about 95% of your problem. It actually makes things worse.


Please...enough with the egg crate already. :rolleyes:
 
Egg cartons can make decent diffusers - if you use them as molds for some other material. :p
 
seen this in a few DIY basement practice space looked real funny
 
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