acoustics

I do not need soundproofing. My neighbors do not mind sound exiting the garage. I have a quiet neighborhood and do not care about outside noises entering the room. Here is a brief overview of my garage structure. - The outer most siding is vinyl with a half-inch Styrofoam insulation. - under...

Hi everyone, I'm originally from France, so I apologize if my writing isn't perfect. Basically, I’d like to know what the best and most affordable solutions are for improving the acoustics in a room just for voice recording, as it currently has a lot of resonance. It's a bit of a disaster...

Hello, looking for community input on this. What are all of your experience/opinions on the effects of earpads on the sound of over-ear headphones? Does it make a difference since I have read some other sources here on ASR that says the effects are minimal and that it is not worth measuring one...

Hello, I’ve been scouring the internet for answers to this question and finding mixed answers. I’m aware that lots of people tend to regurgitate what they read online, rather than speak from true experience or education. I’m finding one camp of people saying rear-ported monitors should not be...

Hi, I want to make 4 DIY acoustic panels. I've read on reddit that the important thing is the thickness of the material, not have to worry about material type itself. But I have no experience, what should i choose? I like that polyester thing or rockwool 'cause of the thickness they provide...

Hello! First post, been enjoying reading this forum and the Floyd Toole book, good fun. Planning the setup for the living room I'm soon to move into. Wondering if you all can help decide between Genelec and Revel.... or something else! Floor plan is below. -There's a wall with a window...

Hello everyone and thank you in advance for sharing your reflexions on this topic. The purpose of this thread is purely on acoustic treatment of a room and more specifically how or what to change from a traditional studio design (without in-wall speakers) to a studio using Kii's. I would like...

Room is almost a square (9x11 feet), with one side being a long doorway opening, to a larger room, therefore no right wall really. Right wall 5.5 feet away from Mic, with 3 windows. Mic is almost positioned in the middle of the room. There is pretty much no left wall as you can see. All graphs...

I'm planning to build some bass traps. The rear wall will be treated with about 40cm of glass wool but I want something more attractive for the front wall. I really like the looks of triangular bass traps; they're not as visually intrusive as square bass traps to me. I do all my caculation...

Hi all, Helmholtz resonators are enticing for the control of low frequency room modes, and it's remarkable that such small structures can resonate at such low frequencies. However, they seem to have been largely written off by the audio community because they so often fail to perform as...

Hi all! I want to share this application to calculate and evaluate the natural frequencies of rooms modeled in 3D. At the moment, the application does not consider materials, only rigid surfaces, but it is a very useful tool to evaluate the eigenmodes in irregular rooms. It is recommended to...

Hello, I was wondering where would I place the panel on the celling, it is a slanted celling which goes (Short to High). How would I calculate the first reflection point, my guess would be between the centre of the listening position and the speakers. Also would the panel be Vertical or...

Hello, I am new when it comes the room acoustics, I have been mixing in headphones most of the time, and now I would like to start mixing on speakers , I have set up my speakers and my best listening position in my room, it is a small room with a slanted roof. I have ran some test on REW with L...

Hi folks, I have a question about acoustics for you. Yesterday I attended a meeting with other kid's parents in a school canteen (cafeteria in USA? ). I took a picture of the ceiling: I'm assuming they have an acoustic purpose from now on. It seems a low density foam of about 4 cm thick...

I'm in contact with a company who produces panels made from PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate, not domesticated animals). They send me their performance data for a 15mm (0.59 inch) thick panel… Does the low frequency absorption seem unusually high to you too or am I misreading it?

Hi everyone, I am trying to set up Neumann KH80 for mixing practice and as you can see, my room is super tiny. The dimensions are 280cm x 250 x 240 (L x W x H) and that would be 9.18ft x 8.2 x 7.8 for my American friends. I used Behringer ECM8000 and played sine sweep playing through both...

Hi everyone, I'm trying to mix my songs in my tiny bedroom. Is mixing with monitor speakers a viable option in this room? Sorry for the bad drawing, but here are the approximate measurements of my room: L: 280cm (110") W: 250cm (98.4") H: 240cm (94"). I typed the measurements into Bob Gold's...

I'm not sure the following is even possible due to how high-frequency sound is perceived in off-axis listening configurations. In any case, here are the 'concept parameters': hardware/audio optical or coax digital input single speaker configuration available (maybe something like a sonos play...

Hi all! I'm so glad I found this site. It combines two of my favourite things: audio and science. When I was shopping for my first studio monitors four years ago, I didn't know much about the subject except that I had read they were supposed to be accurate and have a flat frequency response. I...

Hello to all, Passionate about music and acoustician, I manage a website about acoustics and hi-fi. I think that it will be able to please some people, especially the "blog" section. Here is the link : https://www.pytaudio.com/en/ Looking forward to discuss with you :) Musically