Build an Effective Room Treatment on the Cheap – Audio Plus Birthday Bonus!

Aug 20th in Recording, Tutorials by Adrian Try

We've already published a wonderful Plus tutorial this week, but since it's our birthday, we're feeling generous! Today we mark the second day of Envato's 3rd Birthday celebrations with an extra tutorial for Plus members.

In this special Birthday Bonus tutorial, Bobby Owsinski teaches us how to treat a room acoustically without breaking the bank.

To learn more about what you get as part of Audio Plus, read this. To take a peek inside this tutorial, hit the jump!

Author: Adrian Try

Adrian is writer and editor for Audiotuts+ and the AudioJungle blog. He has been playing keys and acoustic guitar for three decades, and has six kids. Follow him on Twitter at @audiotuts.

Sneak Peek

With more and more musicians and engineers able to have their own personal studio, many times the last thing considered is the acoustics of the recording space. This is understandable, since if you don’t have the recording gear in the first place, a great acoustic environment isn’t going to do you much good. But I think that one of the major reasons that the recording environment isn’t given a higher priority in a personal or non-commercial recording space are the perceived costs in attaining something acoustically reasonable.

It’s true that designing a commercial facility with a great designer/architect is going to cost you anywhere from $300 to 500 USD per square foot (or more) to build, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t improve your present recording environment for much, much less. All it takes is a bit of knowledge about some really basic acoustics principles and some time, and you can improve your studio more than you could’ve imagined in most cases (with no math involved unless you want to go another step).

Table of Contents

1. Soundproofing
2. Acoustic Treatment
3. The Curse of Low Ceilings
4. Air Conditioning
5. When You Can't Make Physical Changes
6. Placing the Kit in the Room

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