Built my own accoustic room treatment and wow!

Mike Goodwin · Post by **Mike Goodwin** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:09 pm

Well I moved into a new place about four months ago and finialy got a decent room for my studio. The only problem is that it sounded like crap! It is almost square and all the walls are parallel. Not a good situation. Looked into buying all the foam that it would take to get some good results and was not all that happy with the prices that I was seeing. I also did not like the way you have to install it. Glu and adhesives and so on. Long story short I read these pages.....(Thank you philipbarrett) for the FANTASTIC links.
http://www.ethanwiner.com/acoustics.html
http://www.johnlsayers.com/
......and BUILT MY OWN!
I used fiberglass/fabric/wood construction and made eight 2x4 foot panels of different densities and depths. The results where fantastic. I can only say that if you are thinking about building some bass traps you should do it. I was worried that I would not get results but this is not the case. I put pictures of the construstion process up on my web site with notes if you want to check em out here is a link to my pictures page.. http://www.michaelgoodwin.net/5.html

cosmosuave · Post by **cosmosuave** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:33 pm

Come and do my studio... I'll have to check this out at your place Mike.

philipbarrett · Post by **philipbarrett** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:48 pm

That is so awesome. Love the way it all turned out. Did you do anything to the floor?

Made my night!

PB

Mike Goodwin · Post by **Mike Goodwin** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:03 pm

Hey cosmo, sure ill do your place for only 50 bucks an hour

You should totaly come over and check out the new digs. The studio is looking and feeling very productive.

Hey philipbarrett, great to see you post here. It was your dam links that pushed me in the direction in the first place. Then I saw what some other companies where selling and for what prices they where selling them and was even more motovated! I have a thick carpet under my drums but other than that the floor is hardwood. I am not to worried about the floor as I dont want the room to be totaly dead. I am debating moving one of the full range absorbers on the celing from the back wall where it is now. We shal see.

Johnisfaster · Post by **Johnisfaster** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:24 am

truely inspiring man, I just moved into a new place and the room I have is really nice (small but nice) but the door I have might as well not even be there cause sound goes right through it and then down the stairs and out the front door where it can annoy the neighbors. I was putting my ear to the wall and almost no sound goes through it it's all the doors in the place so I'm starting my process very soon of trying to stop the sound from traveling through the doors.

I've had alot of ideas thrown at me so far but you just gave me the idea of making some sort of wooden bass trap with carpet inside of it that I could hang from the top of the door with some sort of little metal clippy things.

thanks for the inspiration, I think this will be the most effective idea so far.

theque · Post by **theque** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 4:04 am

nice work, i really wanna get off my ass and make some now. was the construction straight foreward... ie anything too difficult. or any tips you have learned that may help someone making these for themselves. what type or rockwool did you use also. thanks if you have time to reply.

Mike Goodwin · Post by **Mike Goodwin** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:33 pm

It is nice to know that this information is helping

I recomend using fiberglass if you can. It is not to pricy (about $80 for six 2x4' sheets). I went with a company called Ottawa Fiber. Fiberglass is fiberglass it seems. As long as the accustic ratings are the same then you are good to go. I used two different kinds BMC 3pound and OFI four pound. Please just go to the pictures page of my www.michaelgoodwin.net site and read on the pictures for further information. If after that you want to ask anything no problem

As for basic tips hmmm.... Have the guys at the lumber yard do all the cutting! I have the tools here at home but it saved so much time to have them do it on there rather serious saws. Use the metal corners and glue on all the joints. Pick your fabrics well. And read http://www.ethanwiner.com/acoustics.html that page from top to bottom about ten times

it is an AMAZING resource.

theque · Post by **theque** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:37 pm

cool thanks man, will get researching

Mike Goodwin · Post by **Mike Goodwin** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:42 pm

theque wrote:cool thanks man, will get researching

no stress, the heaver the fiberglass the better btw! Four pound was the heaviest I could find but the BMC board has this great black face on it that seems to lock in the VAST majority of the fiberglass wile letting the sound pass right through it. VERY handy. I could not get it in 4/5 pound though so I had to settle for 3 pound.