Okay, Turnipville - Take Two

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Hey fellas -

After some more pondering, and some astute realizations (see thread "Okay you were right..."), the studio has been remodeled.

For some info, check out http://www.turnipville.com - specifically the Studio page.

The site is under construction, but there are a few pictures of the new studio and layout there.

I look forward to comments. :D
 
Well, I think there's a marked improvement on the overall mood of your studio. The "feel" or "vibe" seems a lot better.

As far as your acoustic treatment goes, it's doubtfull that the individual pieces of foam are helping matters much at all.
In order to have effective acoustics you're going to have to treat the ENTIRE wall.

Think of it this way:
If foam is 10% effective at sound isolation or internal acoustics, and you're covering 5% of the wall space.... well, you can begin to see how ineffective it is.

People here tried to convince me of this as well, and my room once started out with individual pieces of foam kind of "scattered about".
It was only AFTER I treated the entire wall that I could hear what they were talking about.

Then I come to find out that foam is really only effective at attenuating the higher frequencies of the audio spectrum, and does little or nothing at absorbing the lower frequencies. So, yeah, live and learn.

Of course, I'm building a NEW studio now, so I'm not going to make any changes to this room, but if I had it to do over, I'd use some of John Sayer's "Varible Bass Wall Units" and set up some pannel absorbers and pannel diffusers. With a proper combination of absorbers AND diffusers you could have a REALLY NICE sounding room.

Plus it'd look cool as hell!

(You HAVE been here: http://www.saecollege.de/reference_material/pages/Acoustics.htm) Haven't you?
 
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Michael Jones said:
In order to have effective acoustics you're going to have to treat the ENTIRE wall.

I don't believe that to be correct. Foaming up an entire wall (like you said) would certainly take away a lot of high end, and in my opinion would be as bad as the reflections that may have occured in the first place. I think "effective" spot treatment to be more the answer...rather than "cosmetic" treatment.
 
mixmkr said:
I don't believe that to be correct. Foaming up an entire wall (like you said) would certainly take away a lot of high end, and in my opinion would be as bad as the reflections that may have occured in the first place. I think "effective" spot treatment to be more the answer...rather than "cosmetic" treatment.
I should have been clearer....
I'm not talking about FOAMING the entire wall. I'm talking about TREATING the entire wall. Foam is but one method of treatment, and probably the least effective method at that.
 
True...every wall should be treated. I know that my setup leaves a lot to be desired - but it's 150% better than it was, and I've noticed a VERY substantial improvement in the recording I've done since adding the foam.

It really is incredible. I'll lay some stuff down this week and put it out here.

:)
 
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that it leaves ANYTHING to be desired. I think you have a great start on a really cool place to hang out.
Its an ongoing process.
 
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