amt7565 said:
Michael Jones your setup is nice. Looks professional.
By the way, where did you get those sponge sound dampers I see on the wall? I can sure use them because I live in an apartment. Do they relaly help dampen the sound?
Thanks AMT, I wish I had a better digital camera. The pic's really don't do the room justice.
The black sound dampening devices are 2'x4' panels of aurelux pyrimid foam set into wooden frames. (I bought them at
Mars, less than $20 each.) I set them in frames so that I could nail them onto the walls rather than glueing them to the wall surface. I think the glue, or adhesive would be an incredible mess! Especially if you ever had to take them off.
There's about an 8" space between the black panels, and I took some purple saw toothed foam panels, cut them down to 12" and kind of force fit them between the black panels. Force fitting them required that the be "curved" to fit in between. They stay put very nicely, and work very well.
I have a large Grand Piano in this room, and the room is about 17'x20', with 9' ceilings, so reverberation and early reflections proved to be a problem in the pre sound dampening stage of studio use.
I think the acoustic treatment has done wonders for this room. While the acoustics are no where near professional studio standards, they have proved to be an excellent, inexpensive modification for the sound of this room. I have even had my piano tunner comment on the quality of the room's sound, noting in particular the lack of early reflections, and therefore, the ease in tuning the piano.
If I had it to do different, I think I would have used a combination of acoustic foam, and hard wood diffusion panels, but that would be for purely asthetic/artistic reasons.