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Post by gwlee7 on Jan 23, 2022 10:47:20 GMT -6
I have hard flooring (wood laminate stuff) on my music room floor. I keep going back and forth between putting my area rugs down and rolling them up against the wall. I get in my head about if my room is too “chirpy” when recording acoustic guitars or not. The walls and ceilings are good. Just wondering about whether you guys use anything on the floor or not. There is a lot of conflicting opinion about this and since I need to really straighten up in there again, I may put the rugs back down.
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Post by srb on Jan 23, 2022 11:22:23 GMT -6
Rugs here on maple floors in two of the rooms here. I've actually added a second one to my "big" room last couple years (I needed one for drums anyway initially). It works well for me. Can't say that things are less "chirpy", necessarily, but there is less short slap.
Overall an 'improvement', but I like the look/vibe, too. Win win.
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Post by Ward on Jan 23, 2022 12:29:32 GMT -6
Mine are always up and down and up and down over and over again. Just tuning the room!
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Post by gwlee7 on Jan 24, 2022 18:50:01 GMT -6
Man, I had to put a bunch of shit back in its proper place in order to get ready to put the rugs back down. I am like kudzu.
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Post by Ward on Jan 25, 2022 6:42:45 GMT -6
Never being satisfied just shows your passion for your art!
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Post by svart on Jan 25, 2022 15:27:38 GMT -6
Rugs. Keeps drums from sliding. Vocalists always take their shoes off for some reason too.
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Post by gwlee7 on Jan 25, 2022 16:05:39 GMT -6
Rugs. Keeps drums from sliding. Vocalists always take their shoes off for some reason too. I won’t be doing drums in my room. But I do walk around barefoot sometimes. It's mostly just me recording I go back and forth about which way my room sounds better. That said, I am unrolling the rugs and putting them back down since I just did a good job of straightening everything back up. |
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Post by Bat Lanyard on Jan 25, 2022 23:02:09 GMT -6
Rugs. Keeps drums from sliding. Vocalists always take their shoes off for some reason too. I won’t be doing drums in my room. But I do walk around barefoot sometimes. It's mostly just me recording I go back and forth about which way my room sounds better. That said, I am unrolling the rugs and putting them back down since I just did a good job of straightening everything back up. What do you have going on on the walls and the ceiling? |
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Post by gwlee7 on Jan 26, 2022 5:55:59 GMT -6
15 DIY OC 703 panels I made and then finished out with some traps and diffusers that I got from GIK after sending them REW measurements. They told me how and where to place everything. The guy after the last measurement said “make music”. I am probably just over thinking things (again).
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Post by Bat Lanyard on Jan 26, 2022 22:42:29 GMT -6
15 DIY OC 703 panels I made and then finished out with some traps and diffusers that I got from GIK after sending them REW measurements. They told me how and where to place everything. The guy after the last measurement said “make music”. I am probably just over thinking things (again). Seems if you went to that level of getting things right with GIK then you're probably fine all around! That's great. Maybe try running cables to another room or closet or something? Or try out other spots in your room. So much of that is probably going to be reflections as well, so maybe back-to-the-wall in a corner or face-to-the-wall in a corner, that type of thing. |
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Post by thehightenor on Jan 29, 2022 4:06:02 GMT -6
I say definitely rug - I've always had lovely rugs in my acoustically treated studio spaces.
I went through the same thought process for my head - and decided the opposite and I'm sticking with being proudly bald :-)
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Post by soundintheround on Jan 30, 2022 19:30:13 GMT -6
Hard floors fan here! I prefer that sound for whatever reason.
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Post by gwlee7 on Jan 30, 2022 19:51:46 GMT -6
The rugs I have cover about half of the floor so it’s not like wall to wall. I certainly liked how some scratch acoustic tracks for a song I am working on are sounding. So, for the time being they will stay down again.
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Post by Omicron9 on Feb 2, 2022 11:40:18 GMT -6
Hardwood oak floor here with heavy Oriental (is that the proper PC term these days?) rugs covering 3/4 or more of it. I like the sound and the look, too.
-09
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Post by stratboy on Feb 2, 2022 12:10:15 GMT -6
I had a rug. Now I don’t. My ceiling is well-treated. Rug or none didn’t change the sound, but my studio chair rolls around a lot easier.
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Post by theshea on Feb 3, 2022 13:45:30 GMT -6
rugs on my wood laminate. but only partially. i have a one room recording mixing room and the rugs are in the recording part. in my mixing part i have the bare laminate. its ceiling has a absorbing cloud though. i have a big woody diffusor in the back of the room.
i record everything over the big rugs. drums, electric and acoustic guitars, vocals etc.
my room is threated and its rather dry. sometimes with acoustic guitars i even put absorbers to the left and right and record it really dry. i figured if my room does sound nothing special i better record dry and put some nice room reverb on while mixing.
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Post by thehightenor on Feb 5, 2022 12:08:36 GMT -6
I had a rug. Now I don’t. My ceiling is well-treated. Rug or none didn’t change the sound, but my studio chair rolls around a lot easier. Yep, my rug is off to the side under my amps and pedal board. Where my studio chair is I'm free wheelin' on wood. |
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Post by gwlee7 on Feb 5, 2022 15:52:26 GMT -6
I had a rug. Now I don’t. My ceiling is well-treated. Rug or none didn’t change the sound, but my studio chair rolls around a lot easier. Yep, my rug is off to the side under my amps and pedal board. Where my studio chair is I'm free wheelin' on wood. I have put a little rug under my chair but it’s getting aggravating. |
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Post by thehightenor on Feb 6, 2022 15:55:35 GMT -6
Yep, my rug is off to the side under my amps and pedal board. Where my studio chair is I'm free wheelin' on wood. I have put a little rug under my chair but it’s getting aggravating. It can be annoying if you like to push back and roll away from the desk bit - which I need to as I have my 88 note keyboard controller on a sliding drawer. But I'm not keen on a large area of just wooden floor as it feels to stark and cold both acoustically and environmentally speaking so that's why my big rug is under my amp and pedal board zone. |
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