How To Make Your Home Studio Sound Amazing With A Low Budget

so here is a sound sample of me talking in this room before acoustic treatment as you can hear it's very reflective and open and roomy sounding and there's not too much great speech intelligibility could be considered hard to hear me as well and here is a sound sample of me talking in this room after acoustic treatment and as you can hear speech intelligibility is much higher it's way more clear what I'm saying there's not weird reflections or interference from the room and my voice should be a little bit more boomy a little bit more bass heavy sounding Hey Victor Guidera here from Recordeo.com and we are here setting up our new studio / office space as you can see this is in my garage so it's a home studio and I wanted to take some time and film a video for you on how to make your home studio sound amazing and show you how to save thousands of dollars in the process and so we're gonna take your room from sounding like this to sounding like this so in home studios we generally have a bedroom or a garage or a small room of some sort as our studio space and you know the main problem we deal with is an unpleasant sound reflectivity as you can hear with in my voice in this room a buildup of low in frequencies or weird or funny sounding echoes and so the main thing that we can do to combat this is with acoustic absorption and you know and there's a lot going on with room acoustics and the science there but we're gonna keep it really simple with this video lesson and show you something extremely effective on a lower budget so with every studio that I've designed I always use something called Primacoustic absorption panels it's a two inch rigid fiberglass absorption panel with covered with a breathable acoustic cloth and those as a prefab or pre-made solution are great I highly recommend them and if you're like me and you like to get dirty a little bit and you like to save a lot of money who doesn't then I'm gonna show you how to make your own sort of Primacoustic panels essentially we're using the same materials here and you know we're gonna make those at 40% of the cost of those things and so you know make sure that you download the free pdf guide and materials list it would be either in the description below this video or on this page wherever you're watching the video and so you have that follow along guide and you know where and how to get the materials and so that's it let's get started start out by either brushing rolling or spraying the edge hardening resin around the perimeter and don't be shy on the corners allow it to dry for 24 hours next lay out your fabric mark it at 3 feet to allow wrapping on the back and you want to have 6 inches of fabric overhang around the entire panel Center the panel on the fabric and spray glue one long side first while carefully pulling the fabric up and over to the back and smoothen the edges so it's a nice corner next carefully flip the panel over while keeping the fabric tight and spray glue only the side edge so you can tighten the front of the panel and have no ripples always carefully smoothen the corners not pulling too or to light so you have a nice squared edge and no ripples then you can flip the panel back over and finish gluing the rest of the 4 inches of fabric to the back of the panel now for the corners cut out a square edge as shown here to get ready for the fold do a dry practice run of the corner fold until you get it right then spray glue inside the corner lightly hold the outside corner with your thumb and at the end of the fabric lightly pre fold it down as shown here and wrap the entire fabric up and over the back of the panel then glue that rinse and repeat for all of the corners and that's it on to mounting I recommend you corner mount one or a couple panels stacked vertically as this will significantly help battle low-frequency buildup in your small room since we are covering about 20% of the entire room surfaces I decided to evenly space the panels in the room both vertically and horizontally start by mounting the corner panels then measure the distance between them and calculate how many panels you could fit equally spaced without too much or too little of a gap using a laser level measure and Mark the two outside edges of each panel along the space that you've calculated then mark 6 inches inside the panel from each outside edge where you want to place your Impaler clips since I'm using these small straight push on impaler's I've decided to use three clips per panel you can use two three or four impaler's per panel depending on how stable you need them to be on the wall now with the ceiling mounting I decided to use the garage door tracks to hang a span of one-inch steel pipe across for an extremely easy suspension device place the cloud anchors 12 inches in from the length and six inches in from the width and hang with the S hooks and that's it for mounting the panels in our Recordeo studio all right that is all there is to it and you can probably even hear a big difference in my voice in this room now just talking and I want to reiterate that as a prebuilt solution if you don't want to make these panels yourself Primeacoustic makes an excellent rigid fiberglass board with the same Owens Corning material and you can also use something called Roxul which is a little bit less dense and actually they make a rigid board as well you could build a wood frame if you don't want to do the spray adhesive stuff whatever you do the point is to use more of a dense insulation material as acoustic absorption on your walls and so for coverage in this room I recommend to do a minimum of about 15 to 20 percent of the overall surface area of room so add up all of the surface area of the exterior walls and floors and ceiling in your room and the amount of material footed square footage of your acoustic material and your absorption material should be about 15 to 20 percent to start with and so in this room we actually did I think it was just about 20 percent and for placement as you can see you know we spread everything out evenly around the room the main key points around your mix position are the first point early reflections from your speakers and so that would be like directly off of the speaker cone bouncing off of the wall and coming right into your ear and so that's off this to the sides the ceiling and the back wall so those are the main key you know the first early reflection points that we want to attack first and of course you know out from there we want to just sort of spread an even coverage for the rest of the room and so for the ceiling panels you know I was originally gonna do something like I did over at the Drumeo studios which is a perfect laser level grid up on the ceiling drywall plugs and I hooks and hang the suspend the panel's off of that and you know I wanted to simplify it I have the garage door track so very simply just put the the steel pipe across and was able to suspend the panels off of that and so now that we have a really nice acoustic treatment for the entire mix position and the rest of the room we are fully ready to record and mix some awesome sounding instruments to a much more accurate degree in this home studio space so if you want more tips on how to improve your studio sounds and recordings be sure to subscribe to us on YouTube and check out Recordeo.com where we have all kinds of tips and tricks and courses constantly being released so thank you so much for watching and I will see you in some more lessons

Channel: Recordeo

Views: 905,520

Keywords: Studio, Recording, Recording Guitar, Recording Drums, Sound Proofing, Recordeo, Victor Guidera, How To Soundproof A Room, Home Studio, Home Recording, Audio Engineer, Audio Engineering, Music Production

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Length: 8min 45sec (525 seconds)

Published: Thu May 03 2018