Hi,
I just visited a friend's home studio. He has carpet padding (covered with cloth) completely covering the walls of the control room and booth. He chose it as a low cost alternative, and is happy with it's performance (seems to kill reflections well), and has mixed a number of hits out of there. Now I'm really considering it (and the $ I could save vs. 703, auralex, ect.). Does anybody know any info on carpet padding, and it's performance specs as a high/mid/low freq. absorber? Heard of anyone else using this method? What do you guys think?
Thanks,
Steve
Carpet Padding On Walls ?
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Re: Carpet Padding On Walls ?
Steve,
> carpet padding ... I'm really considering it <
Don't do it. I don't care how many hits your friend has mixed, that is the lamest way possible to treat a room. See the Acoustics FAQ, second in the list on my Articles page:
www.ethanwiner.com/articles.html
Then send the link to your friend too.
--Ethan
> carpet padding ... I'm really considering it <
Don't do it. I don't care how many hits your friend has mixed, that is the lamest way possible to treat a room. See the Acoustics FAQ, second in the list on my Articles page:
www.ethanwiner.com/articles.html
Then send the link to your friend too.
--Ethan
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Thanks Ethan,
great to see a reply from someone like yourself. I'm making my way through your article right now...lotsa good stuff in there! I've also been reading 2 books by F. Alton Everest "The Master Handbook of Acoustics" and "How to Build a Small Budget Recording Studio from Scratch". I'll be starting soon and want to do everything right the first time, but since my estimates are starting to get expensive, I'm constantly looking for cheaper alternatives or do-it-yourself versions of commercial products to save as much $ as I can, though not at the cost of quality of course. I thought the carpet padding may have some useful acoustic qualities.
See below for an update of my ruff plans that I posted in the design forum.
Thanks again for the reply, I'm sure I'll be posting more questions later as I get depper into the process.
Steve
great to see a reply from someone like yourself. I'm making my way through your article right now...lotsa good stuff in there! I've also been reading 2 books by F. Alton Everest "The Master Handbook of Acoustics" and "How to Build a Small Budget Recording Studio from Scratch". I'll be starting soon and want to do everything right the first time, but since my estimates are starting to get expensive, I'm constantly looking for cheaper alternatives or do-it-yourself versions of commercial products to save as much $ as I can, though not at the cost of quality of course. I thought the carpet padding may have some useful acoustic qualities.
See below for an update of my ruff plans that I posted in the design forum.
Thanks again for the reply, I'm sure I'll be posting more questions later as I get depper into the process.
Steve
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I'd rather die than put carpet on my walls.
A competing studio in my area has covered the walls in carpet. All his clients think it's wonderful because it sounds so much "different" than normal rooms. Yes, it's dead...in the high end. All the life is sucked out of the rooms (as well as high end) and everything 400 Hz and down is left.
I don't know a ton about acoustics, but I know that it sounds like garbage if you do this. I would much rather record in a concrete garage than I would a room covered in carpet. You can always deaden as you need to with blankets and gobos.
Brandon
A competing studio in my area has covered the walls in carpet. All his clients think it's wonderful because it sounds so much "different" than normal rooms. Yes, it's dead...in the high end. All the life is sucked out of the rooms (as well as high end) and everything 400 Hz and down is left.
I don't know a ton about acoustics, but I know that it sounds like garbage if you do this. I would much rather record in a concrete garage than I would a room covered in carpet. You can always deaden as you need to with blankets and gobos.
Brandon