foam for my walls

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Massive Master said:
...Don't even consider trying to track down goofy little blurbs like flutter and high-end comb filtering until your lows are in order. It's almost always two steps back.
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In my own seat-of the pants way- ;)
Layers 3-4" thick typically tackle the high to mid range (for fiberglass that's down around a couple hundred) Patches (not -ever- full covering) of this allow partial control of ringing and flutter in that range. Standing/movable gobos and hanging overhead patches make for configurable mini environments to dial in as much or little of any room you're in -good or bad.

Here are some must-haves (Not you Massive! :)) so that you don't go backwards.
http://www.amazon.com/New-Stereo-So...=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201972886&sr=1-5
http://www.amazon.com/Sound-Studio-...=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201972886&sr=1-3
http://www.amazon.com/Budget-Record...=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201972886&sr=1-4
If these don't work, hang them on the walls.

The other gotchca' OP- besides this foam being less effective and an unknown quality-
It could very likely be a HUGE FIRE HAZORD. Almost certainly (ok, I'm guessing here but..) extremely toxic burned.

Think about that hard.
Then go price fluffy or board fiberglass and the cost to do your own - much of the same work you'll still have to do anyway with the foam .

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I say use the pink stuff if on a budget.

I have a basement studio with a 8x9 room, half concrete and the rest wood. I used to record vocals in the room - completely untreated - and you could always hear the room.

Then I bought 3 cheap egg-looking mattress pads, covered the ceiling and two walls and now I don't hear the room.

Perfect? No. There's a lot of bass and mids. Are my tracks better than before? Yes.

Do I answer my own questions like Donald Rumsfeld? Yes. Am I voting for Obama? Yes.
 
nuemes said:
I say use the pink stuff if on a budget.

I have a basement studio with a 8x9 room, half concrete and the rest wood. I used to record vocals in the room - completely untreated - and you could always hear the room.

Then I bought 3 cheap egg-looking mattress pads, covered the ceiling and two walls and now I don't hear the room.

Perfect? No. There's a lot of bass and mids. Are my tracks better than before? Yes.

Do I answer my own questions like Donald Rumsfeld? Yes. Am I voting for Obama? Yes.
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Yeah, he's the one. At least untill a decent conservative comes along. :)
 
toobalicious said:
i cant find a single piece of 703 OR acoustic foam in any of the pics they have posted. amateurs! ill bet it sounds like shit in there!
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Nor do you see any furniture padding which proves the point that no treatment is better then the wrong treatment. They have a lot of shit around the room which helps with diffusion and the open floorplan with high angled ceilings also helps.
 
toobalicious said:
while i in no way disagree, i would like to say that "free" low end treatments have thus far eluded my finding them, save for an occasional used mattress or other nasties. and i do fully agree with doing a given task the "right" way, but sometimes, like in my HOME studio, i find compromise (especially of the financial type) to be a pretty much common theme.

to further my argument, i would like to briefly describe acoustic treatments in my modest studio. it is far from pro level, and cost exponentially less to "build". my control "room" (which is adjacent to my instrument room and neither fully separated or isolated) is controlled by only six pieces of 2x4'x2" 703 glass, six pieces of 2x4'x2" wedge aurelex, remnant carpet (on the floor, lol), and a few heavy comforters. ghetto? of course. is it perfect? far from it. but it is a HUGE improvement over PAINTED DRYWALL. the 'glass alone was nearly $100, and as a hand-to-mouther, i had to cut bux elsewhere to afford it.

in the spirit of "free" in the original post, the foam might be perfectly usable, but with obvious limitations, which are well documented on the interwebs. i suppose that i implied that the free foam would "fix" his room by posting "it will work". it wont do that, and for the same reason a thin summer sleeping bag isnt enough to sleep comfortably in a tent in 30 degree weather. but over NOTHING, it is a marked improvement.

so, question444, you should throw it back in the trash. and build a "real" studio. anything less is a waste of time, and completely unusable for audio recording, even within the confines of your home. maybe you could lease a nice room?

isnt there a forum for poor non-professional home recording enthusiasts like myself?

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Grow up.

Use your foam, it's what you want to use - despite what actual experts tell you.

/shrugs/
 
Grow up.

Use your foam, it's what you want to use - despite what actual experts tell you.

/shrugs/
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oh gee, please accept my apology. i certainly did not mean to offend you, sir, especially since this is your very first post in this thread. actually, it isnt my foam at all, but i would probably use it for something if i had it.

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