Tutorial Details
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Time: 10 minutes to watch, and hour or so to build
- Requirements: Some basic materials outlined in the video
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Renovating your studio over the holidays? In this week’s Audio Premium content, Jonah Guelzo shows you how to make inexpensive acoustical panels for your studio wall. Check out the video preview after the break.
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Very clear explanation. I look forward to attempting this project myself. Great job as always Jonah. Keep it up!
Wow. This is a really great and informative tutorial.. thank you. I’ve always wanted to make my own acoustical panels, I’ve just never had any idea how to.
Also, whoever those “female(s)” were who stepped in and made you cut your hair.. Thank them! Seriously, Dude:THANK. THEM. I always felt like I was watching a terrorist and/or Jesus before, and now I actually enjoy watching you! You look GOOD. This will definitely make me more likely to watch more of your tutorials in the future. (So tell those females that they rock.)
What I did when I did something like this, I printed out huge pictures of guitar players and so forth transferred them to the fabric on the front so it looked like bit pieces of art work. Like microphones, I like multi-purpose.
John… very creative… would love to see your end result.
I did this last night. THANKS for the tips, mine did not come out the best but I will be making more and more and will get lots of practice.
I would recommend for a bit more money and a more professional result – resulting in a panel that absorbs higher spl’s than even commercial foam, use rock wool batting, or owens corning 703, or even 705 rigid fiberglass. Plus they already come in panels of 2′ x 4′ and they cut like butter with a razor knife if you need to cut them.
I’ll put more attention on the depth of the panel so it can absorb wider spectrum of the frequencies.
More info here: http://www.ethanwiner.com/acoustics.html
and here
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/reports/1992-11.pdf