|
I mounted the absorbers and wow, what a difference! The
absorbers are mounted with drywall anchors rated at 50 Lbs apiece. I
used two hangers per trap, though I believe one would have been
sufficient. I ran a wire from the anchors down to some small
eye hooks screwed into the upper back crossbracing. I used two
eyehooks per wire as well. Better safe than sorry, I put too much
work into these to watch them fall and shatter. I finished by
stuffing the top and bottom corners of the room with acoustic foam
to fill the cavities left above and below the
absorbers.
I did some quick listening tests and the difference is night and
day. I really wasn't expecting to be able to hear a substantial
difference but, man, am I happy with the results so far. I was
having some problems mixing a particular song of a local band. The
problem stemming from the fact that the bass player uses a Big Muff
fuzz pedal on this particular song and this caused the bass and
distorted guitar to meld into a sort of uni-instrument. This works
great when they play the same notes at the same time but when they
each go their seperate ways into counterpoint, the guitar
would become muddy and undefined and the bass would wander
around the stereo spread coming in and out at different levels. It
was very difficult to tell whether this was due to the recording,
the room or the instruments. After just a few minutes I was able to
get the sounds seperated and tamed! Obviously I'm not done
with the mix but the point is I couldn't even get close before.
Here are some pics. I'll be doing measurements soon.
##Page6##
|