Jankowske
Senior Member
Hey guys and gals! Long time no Drummerworld.
I may or may not have come into a bit of foam. Not your regular old two-foot-square 2" thick panels you can get for $15-20 a pop at guitar center, but, maybe it's like two-by-two 12" and 18" spikes. Like the stuff they use in anechoic chambers and acoustic testing labs. Maybe I have a few hundred square feet of it.
I may or may not be in the process of lining the entire ceiling of my basement/ tracking room/ practice space with them to see how it works out. So far my hypothetical problems are twofold; first, I have a feeling that my foam placement might be sub-optimal, so I'll put up some pics here of the first installation or two once it's done and hopefully those here with understanding can guide me in the right direction.
Second, I have no idea how much this foam that, um, a friend of mine might have is worth. I googled around for about five minutes and I could only find one site with 12" thick wedge foam that wanted $200 a panel. That's stupid, right? This hypothetical mountain of foam in my basement is also definitely not new; it has wear and tear from obviously being installed at some point with the old adhesive on the back and the occasional torn-off pyramid point. It's not rotten or crumbling or anything but it is pretty dense and easy to cut with a knife. I'm not exactly sure how supple it's supposed to be and I don't know if its efficacy gets reduced with age.
So any input is welcome and I hope this thread will hold me accountable to make reasonable progress on the new Föam Zöne™©® and also the rest of the recording studio which is long overdue.
I may or may not have come into a bit of foam. Not your regular old two-foot-square 2" thick panels you can get for $15-20 a pop at guitar center, but, maybe it's like two-by-two 12" and 18" spikes. Like the stuff they use in anechoic chambers and acoustic testing labs. Maybe I have a few hundred square feet of it.
I may or may not be in the process of lining the entire ceiling of my basement/ tracking room/ practice space with them to see how it works out. So far my hypothetical problems are twofold; first, I have a feeling that my foam placement might be sub-optimal, so I'll put up some pics here of the first installation or two once it's done and hopefully those here with understanding can guide me in the right direction.
Second, I have no idea how much this foam that, um, a friend of mine might have is worth. I googled around for about five minutes and I could only find one site with 12" thick wedge foam that wanted $200 a panel. That's stupid, right? This hypothetical mountain of foam in my basement is also definitely not new; it has wear and tear from obviously being installed at some point with the old adhesive on the back and the occasional torn-off pyramid point. It's not rotten or crumbling or anything but it is pretty dense and easy to cut with a knife. I'm not exactly sure how supple it's supposed to be and I don't know if its efficacy gets reduced with age.
So any input is welcome and I hope this thread will hold me accountable to make reasonable progress on the new Föam Zöne™©® and also the rest of the recording studio which is long overdue.