Room treatment plans - special basstraps??
I've moved to a new place and trying to figure out how to get the basement room usable for music hobby.
It's not a good room, and I don't have money to spend. 7mx 5 m (23'x17'), only 2,04 m high (6,9'). Maybe I'll send the layout drawing later. Anyway, exactly half of it must be left for normal basement storage, full of carton boxes and other stuff, 3,5m x 5 m is left for my use. The walls and floor are all concrete and lightweight blocks (I don't know what they're actually called in english, light bricks made of groil-kind-of stone material).
I'll separate the storage part from the room with a 2,5 (1') cm woodfibre wall (the other side of which will be covered by clothes in hangers), leaving a doorway covered by a molton curtain. Also, I'm planning to cover the walls with the 2,5 cm woodfibre plates as well, and put the same material on first reflection points on the ceiling. I've also reserved some thick and heavy plasticfoam mattrasses to make movable absorbers.
I was thinking of different kind of basstraps instead of the traditional stone-wool ones. If the basstrap is made of, say, 3-5 layers of
2,5 cm woodfibreplate with 2-3 cm air gap between them, would it work? The total weight would be equal or bigger compared to stone wool, and the material is rather porous, though much harder compared to fabric covered stone wool. What if the fibreplates have holes in them?
I'm not very happy with the room, but I suppose it can be made tolerable. The big question mark is the effect of the storage side, as I can not separate it from the room fully. It's full to the ceiling with shelves full of stuff, only a 4 foot wide gangway from the outdoor to the room. I just can't imagine, how much the sound can wander amongst the stuff, or will it be absorbed to a non-disturbing level.
post edited by Kalle Rantaaho - 2013/08/20 06:08:46