Help with studio room treatment!!

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OK so I am involved with a new studio that is working on it's recording room acoustics. It is just for drums and maybe some guitar. It is fairly large with dementions of roughly 25X20X7 (hight) (these are very rough dementions). Out of a suggestion from someone else the owner surrounded the room with heavy curtains and put (thin) insulation on the cielings. It still has a terrible sound to it. It almost feels like you are under water. There is still alot of reflection. The walls are all flat (other than the curtains) and there are currently no bass traps. I do not know much at all about acoustics and could really use some help. Thanks.
 
Thanks guys. I really need some help on this part, I haven't found anything on this yet: The room feels compressed. It's like I am in a plane as it is going up and yoour head is being compressed, and you want to pop your ears. Every other room is nice and open but this one almost makes you sick to be in it. Does anybody know what this is?

We through a big roll of carpet in there yesterday to test and it took out the ringing. We also through some insulation in some potato sacks and threw them in the corners. helped a bit to. There is still some problems to the room though.

How do you know what frequencies are causing problems? I realize what things take care of what frequencies but I don't know how to tell which ones need work.
 
How do you know what frequencies are causing problems? I realize what things take care of what frequencies but I don't know how to tell which ones need work.
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Use your ear. Walk into the room, start talking, or listen to someone else talk, and get a general idea of which frequencies are resonating.

I see a lot of "project studios" that line their rooms in that Auralex stuff, and they buy all sorts of other expensive things, and they think it will automatically make their rooms better, when it's really designed to take care of problems that aren't really there. This stuff wasn't designed for universal use, and it won't make every room better.
 
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