Soundproofing a room

Hi all,

So I'm getting married in 5 days and my fiancee and I have found a two bedroom apartment and one of the bedrooms gets to be my studio!
The only problem is the acoustics are bad. Tile floor and a rectangular shape I'd hazard a guess of approx 12' by 8' something like that. Anyways, I can do whatever I want to the room (short of rebuilding it or making us broke) so I'm wondering how I can most effectively deaden it while retaining maximum space to use and hopefully retain some aesthetic value too. 

The room is definitely "echoey" at the moment, I have a sound blanket I had bought from the local music recording supplier and thought about buying a few more and suspending them on the walls as well as putting a rug in the room to help dampen reflections. 

We're just getting married so I don't have a lot of $$ and I'd like it to be somewhat aesthetically pleasing if possible. It doesn't have to be a perfect room and I know it won't be, but it definitely needs some work...

suggestions?

Part of your solution depends on the scope of the problem. Are you sharing walls with neighbors, ground floor or elevated, etc? How are you recording, mic'd or direct?

If populating the room will be enough, then cool, ya gotta kinda do that anyway. Some foresight in that methodology will go a long way.

If you're looking to completely acousticize the room, that can get expensive.

If you can correct for the acoustics via software (ARC, etc) that may be the least expensive, but only really useful for mixing. If you mic your instruments you may still have issues that would have to be dealt with individually.

Find a local source for buying 703 in bulk, get as much as you can afford, and check back for further instructions.

Sounds like he is more concerned with the acoustics of the room at the moment.....

Congrats on the wedding by the way,  with that in mind if/when you have kids either your studio is likely to become a nursery or you'll have to move so....   some carpet, and a couch or two will start to deaden the room some.  Then you can add acoustic blankets to the walls or use 703 as suggested above, or things like egg crate material , foam rubber from in an old pillow top mattress etc.  Those should get you started.  later on if you still need it you can get into studio foam and bass traps from a company like Aurelex. http://auralex.com/

Congrats, and as others have said you can go slow.  Furniture, curtains, rug can help it sound more like a regular ole listening environment as opposed to a fluttery environment suited to painting the ceiling.

As you save a little cash, you can improve.  Building bass traps is probably the most effective thing sonically as well as cash wise, as well as panels.  If you are recording in there as well, you can build gobos or buy some of those more expensive traps.  even a little work will help a lot.

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