Reddit reviews Auralex Acoustics Studiofoam Wedgies Acoustic Absorption Foam, 2" x 12" x 12", 24-Panels, Charcoal
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Great performance at a low costSmaller panels offer more options for placement and designClass B fire ratingNRC of .80Includes: (24) 2” x 12” x 12” Thick Studiofoam Panels" "- 24 Square Feet"
Not all that expensive. Amazon sells 24 for $99.
Hi, I had a similar problem. Everything out there seemed ridiculously expensive, so I built my own solution. Essentially, it's a nice pictureframe wall-art looking thing that has soundproofing baffles (Auralex Studiofoam) on it. Very cheap but very effective - our bedroom is like a tomb when these things are hung and bonus: they're easy to hang and remove as needed.
Update: I would likely use these boards now instead of the Auralex, after learning a bit about soundproofing materials.
Hope this helps. :)
Man, every now and again Amazon used to run these deals for 36 acoustic panels for 54 bucks. They were Auralex panels as well, really top of the line. Back in like, 2011, I bought about 7 boxes of it, because I knew this deal was basically at cost, like, wholesale. They now are $109.99 for 24 panels. I don't think they'll ever be as cheap again, but I pretty much tried to buy every box they had.
Are you talking about acoustic tiles?
Check Amazon...24 Sq Feet for ~$110 and free shipping with prime...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002D05KA?ie=UTF8&camp=213733&creative=393185&creativeASIN=B0002D05KA&linkCode=shr&tag=cpmace-
How much of it do I need? Would this be enough
https://www.amazon.com/Auralex-Acoustics-Studiofoam-Absorption-24-Panels/dp/B0002D05KA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502686208&sr=8-1&keywords=auralex
Drywall it all in. Those walls are insulated enough for soundproofing. If you get any issues with reflection, buy some Auralex foam. Safety needs to come first. Hanging drywall isn't hard, your lungs will thank you, and It'll add to the value of your home.
For what it's worth, none of these booths are 100% sound PROOF.
Whisper Room was at VO Atlanta last year and had one of their 4 x 6 booths set up in the vendor room. With the door closed, I could still very clearly hear everyone outside the room. Yes, the sound was reduced dramatically, but I could still hear it clearly.
Short of building an anechoic chamber, You are NEVER going to have a room completely isolated from the outside world. You have to come up with a level of noise you can or cant afford to be acceptable with.
Unless you are doing audiobooks with a lot of long empty silences between paragraphs or lines of dialog, you are probably not going to need a whisper room.
There are two different things to consider: outside sound and inside sound.
The biggest problem with voiceover audio is inside sounds. The sounds created inside the room and bounce around the hard walls, ceilings and floors. This is the easiest thing to deal with and there are a number of things that you can use to absorb these reflections and reduce the echo. Things like acoustic foam or OC703 panels.
If the room is already acoustically treated, you could probably buy pre-built panels if you are just trying to remove some troublesome reflections. And if you want a specific room to work in, you might want to try a loose-walled curtain style booth like what Vocal Booth 2 Go has.
As for outside sound...if you live on a busy street, there's not much you can do about it. You could spend tens of thousands of dollars to completely acoustically treat your environment and youll still hear the Subaru with the coffee can-sized muffler when it drives by.
I bought some acoustic foam and nailed it to my wall using T-Pins (you can get them at a craft store). The T-Pins are used cause they have a T-shaped head that you can easily remove from the wall and also support the foam a little better. Here are what I used for the walls, and here are the bass traps for the corners. I'm not remotely handy so I just bought everything. I put groups of 4 scattered on my walls around my sound sources and head, and put the bass traps in the corners. You WILL notice a difference. Everyone will tell you to make your own, but if you don't know what you're doing it takes a bit too much time for it to be worth it IMO. Good luck with whatever you do, sound treatment really helps.
That's what I tried and it still wasn't dense enough. Acoustic foam isn't all that hard to find, music, sound, and home improvement places are good places to check for it.
Here's an example of what you need. I'm not endorsing this stuff specifically, just giving an example of the type of foam you need. There are plenty of places to find stuff like this cheap enough to work for you but if you just try to go with mattress pads my experience says it won't work.
I haven't bought the foam yet, so right now I'm still trying to figure out what to buy and how much. My goal is to buy something that works well and will last, but I'm also not looking to spend more than I need to. So understanding the quality of what I'm buying is pretty important to me. I don't want to spend extra money because the package the foam comes in says Auralex when I could have just as easily bought some generic company's foam for the same purpose. Also, how much do I really need? And do I need those corner things?
What I was looking at listed from cheapest to most expensive.
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The Room is a square 14x12 with hard wood floors. My mic is against the north wall (for the purposes of this diagram), and I sit maybe 1-2 feet from the mic with it pointed at my face.
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I would recommend [Auralex] (http://www.amazon.com/Auralex-Studiofoam-Inches-Wedgies-Charcoal/dp/B0002D05KA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396896193&sr=8-1&keywords=acoustic+foam) if you don't have a tight budget.... but if you do, I'd go with [this kind] (http://www.amazon.com/2x12x12-BURGUNDY-CHARCOAL-Acoustic-Soundproofing/dp/B00ATP5KF6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1396896193&sr=8-2&keywords=acoustic+foam). I have both types in my set up and they work quite wonderfully together. The colors are nice accents as well!
Also, you will want to pull your table out from the wall a bit... and make sure you have the monitor tweeters at an equilateral triangle with your ears!
Somewhere down the line you can invest in bass traps as well. [Here are some yoga blocks as well] (http://www.amazon.com/YogaAccessories-TM-Foam-Yoga-Brick/dp/B000OFBC12/ref=sr_1_7?s=exercise-and-fitness&ie=UTF8&qid=1396896353&sr=1-7&keywords=yoga+block). Just make sure they will adequately support your monitors (aka being large enough).
If you have any questions, pm me whenever.