What's above and what's below

RezN8

RezN8

Blick-um, blick-um...
I've been researching acoustics products for a while now...

It's interesting how there is SO much attention to treating walls, but very little attention to treating ceilings and floors.

Most suggestions seem to be "hard (wood) floors/soft ceilings" but I'm always wondering if that is the only solution.
 
RezN8 said:
Most suggestions seem to be "hard (wood) floors/soft ceilings" but I'm always wondering if that is the only solution.
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It's the only one that works well.

The brain loves the floor echo and knows something's amiss when it's not there. It's a gauge of how high something is off the floor.

The ceiling is a big flat thing that gives a clear echo at a bad time, so it should have some absorption to break that up.
 
apl said:
It's the only one that works well.

The brain loves the floor echo and knows something's amiss when it's not there. It's a gauge of how high something is off the floor.

The ceiling is a big flat thing that gives a clear echo at a bad time, so it should have some absorption to break that up.
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That's interesting, thanx APL.

I have a carpeted room. For a home studio, I'm lucky to have had a pretty good room to start with, and now with bass traps, etc...it sounds pretty good. Is the carpeting hindering my sound enough that wooden floors would make a huge difference?
 
RAMI said:
I have a carpeted room. For a home studio, I'm lucky to have had a pretty good room to start with, and now with bass traps, etc...it sounds pretty good. Is the carpeting hindering my sound enough that wooden floors would make a huge difference?
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The new place has a music room I'm working on, gonna add some 703 and stuff.

For the floor, it's carpeted and it's a rental, so I'm going to try a 4' x 4' x 1/4" oak plywood finished with tung oil or polyurethane, haven't decided, that'll be a chair mat most of the time and a reflective floor when needed.
 
So, hypo-pathetically, why would wood walls (or one wood wall) and a carpted floor not work? Would the listener perceive that the "woodslap" isn't cominf from where it should??? Or are we just creating standing waves???
 
RAMI said:
So, hypo-pathetically, why would wood walls (or one wood wall) and a carpted floor not work? Would the listener perceive that the "woodslap" isn't cominf from where it should??? Or are we just creating standing waves???
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It would sound like you are floating in air on your side.
 
And the other problem with carpet is that it absorbs only the higher freqs, which sounds even more unnatural.
 
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