Acoustic Foam Panels

Acoustic foam panels are an essential addition needed in order to enhance the performance of your recording or home studio. A room treated with Acoustic foam will give you a much more defined and tighter sound responce .

Both professional recording studios and home recording stidios will benefit with the use of acoustic foam treatment in the room as it has a massive effect on your final recorded results. Even if you have the best recording and / or monitoring equipment avaliable, if the room is not acoustically treated well you will not be getting the best results. Rooms are rarley made with acoustics in mind, this makes the need for acoustic foam room treatment a must. Rooms all have their own individual sound characteristics. Common acoustic problems in rooms are encountered by sound moving around a room and causing reverberations, reflections, flutter echos, slap echos, standing waves, as well as modal and frequency response problems. Sound waves whilst they are travelling around a room will also encounter many objects and surfaces which will have an effect, aswell as coming into contact with other sound waves moving around the room. these are all elements that will be reasons for the initial sound to change, because of this lack of control the final recording will suffer. Acoustic foam is a well used medium for giving control to the rooms sound allowing you to aleviate many of the afore mentioned problems.

When it is used correctly acoustic foam will make a large difference to the acoustics in a room, your equipment and instruments to be able realize their real potential and will ve visible on the final recording result. Not to mention the working environment will be much better. The room will be will be more pleasureable to work in the knock on effect being better results. Just as a room that is not well treated with acoustic foam will have the opposite effect.

If a room is treated with acoustic foam the room should enhance the recording and never detract from the final results. Acoustic treatment is all about being in control of the rooms sound, being able to give some ‘liveness’ where and when it is needed by adding or removing acoustic foam treatment. An untreated room will be very reflective. An over treated room will have a dead sound. By adding acoustic foam tiles and bass traps this will enable you to alter the ‘liveness’ of the room giving you control of how the sound then responds in the room. The use of acoustic treatment will enable you to tell if what you are recording, mixing, editing or monitoring is what you want not what the room dictates.

By adding and removing acoustic treatment you will be able to get the sound thats right for your recording. Making you able to do your recording and monitoring with much more accuracy, adapting the room to give you the sound you want lowering or raising the liveness or keeping the sound dead if needed.

Acoustic foam tiles properties deal with the problems of high and mid frequency issues and to a lesser extent low frequency can also can be dealt by absorption and can be tightened up. True that lower frequencies can be much harder to deal with than mid and high frequencies. Low end problems are dealt with more by the use of diffusers which are a more structural method of sound control. It is often low end build up in the corners of a room that are a typical problem, The use of acoustic foam corner bass traps will help deal with this allowing low end frequencies to be reduced. And giving a controlled bass response in the room again enhancing the end recordings.