floor suggestion?

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G'day all,
I am in the process of building a "studio" in a garage bay. I have read up on all
the Acoustic treatment norm but have a question.
The floor I am starting with is concrete. however i do not want too leave it this way. I have plenty of carpet i can lay down but read carpet "kills" the sound. I do not want to go out and spend $$$ on a nice new reflictive surface when i have all this lovely carpet at my disposel.
I was thinking of laying the carpet down then putting a hard suface big enough for a drumkit , on top of the carpet like plybord or something similar.
I will be treating the walls as well as the ceiling. Overall I want to get a room that i can get a nice drum sound out of.
will this result be any good?
any suggestions welcome, my room is 10'x14'
 
shmackdaddy said:
G'day all,
I am in the process of building a "studio" in a garage bay. I have read up on all
the Acoustic treatment norm but have a question.
The floor I am starting with is concrete. however i do not want too leave it this way. I have plenty of carpet i can lay down but read carpet "kills" the sound. I do not want to go out and spend $$$ on a nice new reflictive surface when i have all this lovely carpet at my disposel.
I was thinking of laying the carpet down then putting a hard suface big enough for a drumkit , on top of the carpet like plybord or something similar.
I will be treating the walls as well as the ceiling. Overall I want to get a room that i can get a nice drum sound out of.
will this result be any good?
any suggestions welcome, my room is 10'x14'
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Why are you iching so bad to lay carpet down then cover it up?
 
I've heard drum risers are all the rage these days....throw some shipping pallets on some hockey pucks and there ya go. :rolleyes:

Seriously though, I Googled Drum riser and sound a few sites with instructions on buildin your own.

-good luck
 
mainly so people, my self included are not standing on cold hard concrete all day. and for cosmetic reasons, before i got into recording my band and i cut a demo disk at a "real" studio, it was fully carpeted and we came out with a good sound?? I dunno I just dont think it would be a nice enviroment to work in.. maybe if i reversed my idea and just laid down a few pieces of carpet instead??
 
I don't think that one layer of carpet would kill your sound. If I were doing it, I'd lay down a couple sheets of plywood, then put carpet over that. The plywood will keep you off the concrete, plus give you something to attatch the carpet to. Maybe wrong, I don't know.

Is there an Expert in the house?! :confused:
 
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