Isolation panels etc...

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How can I build some isolating panels or whatever?

My 'studio' is in my parents house, so I cannot make changes to the room. And most of my recording sessions are remote sessions. So there are 2 situations, recording vocals at home, and recording (mostly) drums/guitars/bass/... anywhere they want me to.

I tried hanging blankets over mic stands around the drums this weekend. Didn't like it a bit. Only took the highs out. Nothing else. (But it didn't really matter cause guitars and bass were recorded direct... :p )

So, any other tricks? I guess the blankets would help for the vocals at home. Gonna try it as soon as I have more than 1 mic stand. :) If you have pictures of something like this, love to see them.
 
A lot of friends of mine have used "sound board" or something like that. They have it at home depot and it's apparently pretty cheap. (Not like the acoustical foam at music stores) It's better than blankets and you don't really need to hang them up. It just comes in big sheets (about 5' x 3')

Something worth checking out.
 
Its called soundstop and its used by cotractors in between sheetrock walls so you dont hear the "yeeees harry.. harder, faster, etc" next door or the opera lady above you. I have them tacked onto the outside of my plywood studio. You need a few layers and it wont stop bass frequencies. At $7 for a 6 x 8 board, you cant beat it.
 
Does Sound stop asorb sound or will I still need to add foam to the inside? Im in the prosses of making some baffels that I can take down when Im not using them and this material sounds like it will be useful.

What does it look like ?
 
The stuff that I saw, you don't need anything else. It looks kinda like plywood but has a sorta fabic-like texture? I made my isolation panels with regular plywood and then glued carpet on certain parts of it...I wish I had used this stuff. You can check out www.soundstop.com but the stuff I saw on there was made of foam.
 
You still need to treat the inside walls to kill reflections. Check out sonex for a more cost effective alternative to auralex.


None of this stuff will "soundproof" your studio. If its not airtight sound will get out. The best you can do is kill the reflections in your room (unless its nice sounding room) and block sound from getting out.


http://www.sonex-foam.com/
 
baffles

Just this morning, I was looking at some baffle plans in The Musician's Guide to Home Recording. I'd be happy to post the plans, but I don't have a file. For a dead baffle, the author recommends building a frame from 2x4s, of almost any size but not smaller than 4'x4'. He also recommends filling the frame with styrofoam peanuts and enclosing all of it with cork board that is flush with the edges of the frame. Then cover it all in some (hopefully sound absorbing) fabric. It looks pretty easy to do and certainly doable on a budget.

Looks like one advantage is that they should be relatively lightweight and portable.

I'd like to try it myself. Any suggestions or comments from anyone else?
 
that sounds like it would help....You should look into that stuff at home depot....it's pretty much the same but you don't have to worry about filling it with peanuts or covering it with fabirc. just get the size you need and make a frame out of 2 x 4's. It's CHEAP
 
my copy of the same magazine said to use r11 fiberglass for the baffels.


by the way home depot here doesnt have sound stop and cannot order it because the company has never heard of it.:confused:
 
When I went into my store, it wasn't called sound stop. It didn't have a name....The people working there said it was "that stuff people line their walls with for studios and practice spaces". I'll see if I can get a sku number or something and post it. If you want it maybe they can order it for your and you can get it online.
 
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