Foam party

Most of the acoustic foam is attached to the walls now.  I didn’t want to mess the walls up; it’s possible the studio could change or move in the medium term.  Mastic would have been the quickest, cheapest and easiest option, but it would have messed up the walls.

Some “no more nails” removable adhesive strips caught my eye at B&Q, so I trialled it on a few tiles and it has (so far) worked really well.  I also used some of the permanent strips on the heavier bass traps and the tiles on the ceiling.

They have held well so far, and should be fairly straight forward to remove.

The two sliding doors in the room are providing a challenge.  For the moment some foam tiles attached to movable vertical baton seems to be the best solution.

As I started to move some of the foam into the room, I noticed it had a really dramatic effect on the acoustics, so I didn’t cover as much of the walls as I had originally planned.  The plan isn’t to have an unnatural anechoic chamber (which would be tiresome to work in), but to eliminate the majority of the reverberations so that audio from the speakers is clearly heard and accurate mixes and editing can be performed.