Non-destructive room treatment

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I'm moving into an apartment in a couple of months, and I have a some materials that I thought could be helpful for room treatment in my future apartment (of course I won't be able to nail anything onto the walls there, non-destructive).

What I have are some 1x1s, 2x4s, a lot of carpet, carpet paddings, fiber glass, and some thin partical boards. Here is a picture of them in case I named anything wrong.

So, what do you think? I just need an ok environment for mixing and tracking acoustic/electric guitars and vocal. I might just do the vocal in my closet. I was thinking alone of line of one of those boards with some air space in between each side of it and put it up against the wall behind me, bass-traps?? I'm really a greenhorn about this...

Any idea would be great, otherwise these materials are gonna go to the dumpster

Al

 

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Forgot to add, I am not trying to achieve isolation since I am not planning on recording anything louder than my voice/guitar. So, just some units that can enhance the mixing or tracking environment.

thanks in advance

Al

 

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is this one really hard to answer??

how bout this, I build a panel with some 2x4s as the frame, and attach those thin partical boards on each side, then maybe stuff those pink fiberglass in between, and put it up agaist the wall directly behine me (oppisite wall from the monitors).

is that gonna do any good? or just plain silly?

btw, it gonna be a small, almost square room with not so high ceiling.

Al

 

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c7,

thanks for the reply. Making gobos sound like a great idea for tracking. One question tho, if they make tracking better by preventing reflected sounds bouncing off the wall, wouldn't they serve the same job for mixing as well? Or by treating one wall opposed to the whole room makes matter even worse?

If those pink flberglass reflect more than they absorb, how about leaving an inch of air space in between the partical boards and let them absorb some lows and then maybe place some carpet/carpet paddings on the outside to absorb the highs? Does that sound right?

I've been to that link before, gotta go study it again.

thanks

Al