Cheapest Ways to Deaden Room

Jmo but if you don't cover the pink stuff it's itchy if you you rub against it and a little dusty
Owens 703 2x4 sheets with cheep fabric cover or rock wool would be easy to make panels but they need covered also I think I have less than 20 dollars a panel in the one I made wood frame and all and could have been cheaper but I bought some better fabric
I made 75 panels in six hours for myself and a friend studio so it's easy once you have the set up planned out again jmo

Get some rockwool at Home Depot and some old sheets at Goodwill/Value Village/Salvation Army etc.

If you can't do that, get some moving/packing blankets from Harbor Freight. If you get their coupons, those blankets can be dirt cheap (they're cheap without coupons too). It won't do anywhere near as good a job as rockwool but it will help some of the flutter/slapback.

Really though, making your own panels out of rockwool is the best way to go. You can make triangular super chunk traps for the corners and then just take the 2' X 4' panels that it comes in (get at least 2" or 3" thickness), cover them, preferably frame them in some cheap wood but you don't have to, and put them on your walls. Use a mirror to find the first reflection points (from mix position) on the walls and above you.



None of it is hard to build and it's the best money you can put into your studio in my opinion. Especially in a small square-ish room.

Every sound your mics hear/record in there will sound better and you'll make better choices along the whole process from tracking to mixing because you'll be able to hear better what's going on.

That's a good call.  Hadn't thought of that.  I've always just bought fabric from a fabric store for my panels but I've had friends that got old sheets and used them.  

The room is 14x20 with 8.5 ceiling . Not small but not big .

The reverb is like an echo chamber in there .

Moving blankets were mentioned , never tried them but putting those up looks very cheap .

Anyone try these , they are like moving blankets but made to deaden sound ,

www.audimutesoundproofing.com/audimute-sound-absorption-sheets-materials-that-absorb-sound-soundproofing-blankets.aspx

I found some good info from Bobby Owsinski , hes written some good books on recording .

You gotta scroll down , but theres some CHEAP ways to make panels out of foam rubber carpet padding ,

music.tutsplus.com/tutorials/build-an-effective-room-treatment-on-the-cheap--audio-2065

From my expereince go with broadband rockwool absorption.
Its the most easy way if you never did it before.
If you dont want to dampen the HF range build cases with 1 cm slots the base goes in there.

Here you have a good room mode calcualtor. 
It looks good for your romm.
In theroy you just have few resonances in the low end.
They are not tight toghter that will make it easier....

amroc.andymel.eu/?l=14&w=20&h=8.5&ft=true&r60=0.6


And you need this one.

www.whealy.com/acoustics/Porous.html

As well this one:

www.roomeqwizard.com

And this, one of the better B tools..,

www.music-group.com/Categories/Behringer/Microphones/Condenser-Microphones/ECM8000/p/P0118

Place the mic in diffrent spots and post the measurements.
With those tools and a lot of rockwool I did my first room and it did not sound bad.

It was BB base absorption in all corners and movabele HMF to HF absorption under the ceilig.
I did use 10 cm thick bastoect for the ceiling with space between them.
It was a cool balance between dry and nice reflextions.

I think you can build a good room with try and error.
Measuering before and after each building state is essential to get a feel for the treatment.
The basic theroy behind it is not rocket science...

To bad that English ist not my first language.
Otherwise I would try to expalin more details...

if you can afford it, step up to Ultratouch cotton insulation, it's super easy to work with, and you can sleep on it, it's specs exceed fiberglass and rockwool, i do like the sound of rockwool over fiberglass and cotton, it tends to send a bit of high freq's back into the room(the air stuff), fiberglass gives a room a sucked out feeling if you use it everywhere, cotton falls somewhere in between.

I like those large egg cartons. (is it April 1 yet?)

We had a Kaotica thread last year or longer ago. John, do you still have yours? I have one, haven't used it. Gotta try it.

You could boil them !
My washing machine has a sanitize setting!

Never seen this before and was like Whoa !!! Thats Cool !!


But after listening to this video and reading that the recording level is boosted because the sound is trapped in the ball , it sounds like your singing in a dead small closet . Not that great of a sound , 

Another cool trick is to use a dynamic mic for the singer - dead as hell.
With a few wooden frames some rolers and rockwool and stage fabric you can build two big mobile absorbers.
I did use 20 cm rockwool... at 6000 rayls
I have two of them.... if it needs to be dry with UMT 70...

Some basotect can be cool to kill tangential room modes.
I have one of these over my head and it does kills base too if the sonic angle is greater than 30 degres...
Ot solved two probs at the same time a 500 Hz null and a lot off comp filtering in HF range caused by the production table....

My advise is to read some basic theory and try to write a concept based on your empty room measurements.
Good is if you have an active PA speaker to take some high spl level sweeps. 

I takes time before you start to build.
A lot of inspiration comes from watching pictures of diffrent stidios....