Reddit reviews Roxul Rockboard 80, Mineral Wool Board 2" - Case of 6
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8 pound per cubic foot densityRigid mineral wool boardPopular for bass traps and other acoustical products
I'd recommend either of these two over the 2.5lb per sq/ft density.
https://www.amazon.com/Roxul-Rockboard-Mineral-Wool-Board/dp/B006FKNVTQ/ref=pd_sim_267_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=P20ACAJ3FF2RR668MZTR
https://www.amazon.com/Roxul-Rockboard-Mineral-Wool-Board/dp/B006C10IR6/ref=pd_sim_267_4?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=PV8V5JGB36YEKPW77S5C
The reason being the denser ones have better frequency absorption in low mids. You're not going to get too much low end absorption with 2" panels but you'll absorb a little more with the denser Roxul. A 4" thick 8lb panel is more or less a bass trap. I work with all three of these densities regularly, each has their own strength. If I was only gonna put 2" panels in a room I'd go 8lb if I could. I'm not a huge fan of 703 because i prefer to work with the mineral wool over fiberglass. The biggest thing 703 has on roxul is its rigid, so you can just spray adhesive fabric onto it and then hang it. With roxul its better to use a frame. Acoustically they are almost identical.
I will be buying these as well.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006C10IR6/ what I had planed to use.
What's the difference with 60vs80?
Get something like this. See if you can find it locally to get a better price.
Owens Corning 706 or 703 does well, too, but it's usually a little more expensive.
Wrap it in a breathable (important) fabric like these. If you don't want to pay the premium for tested/fire treated fabric, get your own at a fabric store.
If you go DIY, I'd recommend applying fire treatment spray to the fabric before wrapping. If you don't, I'm sorry that your basement went up in flames, but please don't sue me.
You can wall mount them with something like this. Make sure to get the ones with standoffs to get the air gap. That air gap makes a significant difference.
If you don't want to buy enough to treat the whole room, just figure out the pickup pattern of your mic (cardioid), and place panels as close as you can in that pattern, leaving room for yourself. For a wide-ish cardioid pattern like the 57, you should place panels behind and to the sides of you, everywhere but the back of the mic.
Use what you know about your room and your mics to make clever decisions.
Thanks all, look like we're going DIY.
Roxul Rockboard 80, Mineral Wool Board 2" - Case of 6
Having your ceilings vaulted like that is a great start. I'm not sure how big your room is, but helped tame my low-end issues in my 12x10ft (8ft height) room by using thick panels. I started with homemade bass traps, but I had much better success making 6in-thick panels out of very dense insulation. Thick panels for small rooms was recommended to me from one of the major acoustic treatment retailers.
I ended up making them myself for a lot cheaper. I personally love Rockboard 80 because it's very dense (look at Roxul's absorption numbers on their website) and is super easy to work with (it's not fiberglass, which I hate working with). I used a similar method to this, using corner bead and rivets. I'm not very handy but it was super easy.
I've been looking at Owens Corning 703 and 705 and Roxul Rockboard 40/60/80. Both are easy to find online, but are very expensive to ship due to the size. For example this is Rockboard 80 which is comparable to OC 705. Price is $75, but shipping is another $50. I'm seeing comparable pricing anywhere I look online, with no bundled shipping discount for a larger order (4 packs = $200 shipping).
https://www.amazon.com/Roxul-Rockboard-Mineral-Wool-Board/dp/B006C10IR6/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=rockboard+80&qid=1557385655&s=gateway&sr=8-1
I contacted a local distributor today who stocked all of them. I was told $65 for a pack of Rockboard 80, 6 sheets 2'x4'x2". I'm going to check it out tomorrow to see if it's actually the price but I'll check back in either way. If so that'll be a damn good deal.
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Contact a local distributor (not Lowes or Home Depot, they don't carry them).
based on what i've been reading it sounds like Mineral wool is better than fibreglass. Would something like this work so that I could just stuff this in there.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006C10IR6/?tag=sndprf-20
http://www.acoustimac.com/mineral-wool-1260/
I don't really know the difference of 6 vs. 8 lbs/sqft