Sound treatment for my home studio?

freddan · Post by **freddan** » Wed Sep 11, 2002 8:24 am

I've read some interesting posts in other forums about how to treat the walls in a home studio. Did a search here but didn't find anything.What comes to commercial alternatives http://www.primacoustic.com/ seems like the most price worthy.

Though, I'm thinking of building something on my own. I've seen examples of "tear down your whole apartment and do it right from scratch". That won't happen in my case since I'm just renting mine.

So, is there anyone that has built smaller modules (like the Primacoustic's maybe) that could give me good advice on fabric and so on. Any useful links?

Need

snoopy4ever · Post by **snoopy4ever** » Wed Sep 11, 2002 10:57 am

Hello NEED.

I've found this link where you can find some materials and blue prints that actually can help you to treat your room sound.. or ever to construct a new studio room from cero.

http://www.saecollege.de/reference_material/index.html

Please check on the index for "Acoustics", "Absorbers","Construction"

You also can go to mid/low absorbers and click on a link and download an excel file where you can calculate the helmholtz resonant frequency for your room so you can build a better sound treatment for it.

Hope this helps a little.

Snoopy.

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DJATWORK · Post by **DJATWORK** » Wed Sep 11, 2002 12:23 pm

ITs a huge thing, not as simple to ask and answer in a forum...
if you can read in spanish go to http://www.keyboardexperience.com/DIGITAL/Digital.htm

Thats a complete work about Monitors and acoustics.
You can also check in the JBL Page, there you´ll fin the "JBL Sound System Design Manual". There you´ll find general informatinon abou sound phisics and acoustical things. You´ll learn a lot, I did...

DJATWORK

freddan · Post by **freddan** » Thu Sep 12, 2002 2:37 am

Snoopy, good link! Lots of interesting stuff!

DJ, don't speak Spanish but I might get something out of it anyway. Will check out JBL as well!

Anybody else got ideas?

Post by **garyb** » Thu Sep 12, 2002 2:52 am

a real nice product: http://www.acousticsciences.com/

another fine manufacturer with reasonable prices:
http://www.auralex.com/main.html

DJATWORK · Post by **DJATWORK** » Thu Sep 12, 2002 6:47 pm

Hey NEED, there is a lot of information in GENELECs page http://www.genelec.com but its a little bit more complicated to find it because is divided in many parts around the web page. May be you want to check it...

As I told you, is a "not-simple" thing, but first at all you have to know that there are two different things, commonly confused....

Absorption: reflections inside the room.
Insulation: (don´t know if its the exact translation) Sound from/to outside the room.

DJATWORK

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Thu Sep 12, 2002 11:40 pm

And if you want good sound but have no neighbours who complain, you'd have to make an 'infinite space'. Infinite space is as if you were monitoring in space. No reflections, you hear only the sound of your monitors, which ideally reproduce exactly the sound you designed.
Another part of making a studio is dealing with the neighbours. If you live on an apartment, this means you'll have to make multi-layer soundproofing, each layer stopping a frequency band.

I really need sleep now.

ins0mniac.

bendayan · Post by **bendayan** » Fri Sep 13, 2002 5:35 am

funny,
I just installed newcsonex's on the walls here in the control room.

its amazing . totaly.

DJATWORK · Post by **DJATWORK** » Fri Sep 13, 2002 12:28 pm

Hey at0mic!

I like that "space" definition!
good to explain!!!

freddan · Post by **freddan** » Fri Sep 13, 2002 3:08 pm

DJ: Thanks for the new link. I'll check it out!

Bendayan: Got any link to product pages for the things you've bought?

Atomic: What comes to my neighbours...

Actually I'm quite lucky as I live in a pretty sound proof apartment house. Been mixing here a couple of years and no complaints yet.

So I'm only worrying about the reflections I'm getting right now. It seems like Primacoustic and Auralex have the best deals if you want to buy ready-made stuff. Unfortunately they are in Canda/USA so the shipping+customs+VAT to Sweden won't be cheap. They got som distributors in Europe but they are way more expensive...

/Need