Carpet Walls For Drum Recording

Drums on a wood floor are fine though you ll most likely need a rug of some sort to keep them from sliding around as you play.

Carpet walls for drum recording.

Build it like the pros cengage 2011 forget about building soundproof rooms they don t exist. Avoid placing the carpet directly against the studio walls. We used the kiravans easyliner 4 way stretch carpet in wheat to get a nice warm but light look to the van. Placing the carpet directly on the wall will roughly absorb only the highest frequencies.

The rest will remain free to wander. We decided that rather than paneling the van walls with wood we would carpet it to get a better finish and make it seem warmer. Doesn t do much for acoustics it s still a flat surface for sound to bounce off of. Building a drum room in your home can provide a dedicated space for your kit and offer the opportunity to build in soundproofing both you and your neighbors.

For a 1 khz frequency place the carpet at 85mm from the wall. It muffled the highs a little if at all but we still practice. Any assembly will let sound through it just depends on. Because of this a carpet treatment would only work at really high frequencies and not so well at mid to lower frequencies.

As rod gervais says in his excellent book home recording studio. October 8 2019 by hasan when it comes to soundproofing diy techniques are getting traction. You will simply own an adorned wall with the same level of noise. My studio has carpet on the walls.

You might look at doing a wall or two with mineral wool or corning 703 both should be available from your local industrial instulation company and a couple of walls with plywood. Hanging carpet on walls for soundproofing does it work. Carpets and rugs are much thinner than their foam and fiberglass counterparts. Providing the carpet is porous not one with a sealed rubber backing it can be used to cover a cheap absorbing material such as medium density rockwool mineral wool slab 50 to 100 mm thick to create an effective mid high absorber with an attractive cosmetic finish that also prevents the mineral wool fibres from escaping.

What to use for building a drum room. You may have read about using egg crates carpets and even some. This wasn t a problem when recording drums as brett uses his roland v drum kit for that but when recording vocals he d had trouble with spill from the control room monitors getting onto the recording.