zambizzi
Platinum Member
I searched around but didn't find any solid info for my particular situation.
Some of you may have seen my thread about the drum room I built. Well, we moved to a new house and I tore down and re-built what is essentially the same room.
However, this one sounds terrible....I mean...absolutely *TERRIBLE*.
I've been putting up with it for months now but I'm finally at the point where I think I need to re-think the internal room treatments to improve it before I lose my mind.
The problem; bass frequencies are nearly non-existent. I'm playing very high-end drums that sound great everywhere else, so I'm positive I'm tuning them well. If I play in the house, my bass drum literally moves the air in the room. Stand in front of it and you're bound to lower your chances of having children. Take the same drum into my practice room and it sounds like a $10 cardboard box....wet....and filled with blankets.
Here's the old room:
http://www.drummerworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37523
The new one is essentially the same...but in a different garage. We tore down the old walls and built them into a small, detached garage at our new place. It's roughly the same size but is shaped a little more rectangular than the old one.
Here are the only differences:
- No carpet padding, just a layer of carpet over the cement foundation.
- Padding isn't wrapped around the bottom-half of the room like before, but rather in vertical strips (twin mattress size) scattered around the room.
- Celing in new room is styrofoam insulation over "sound board", old room had a flat, drywall celing.
- New room has no windows, old room had two (with padded covers to cut external volume)
I've moved some of the wall treatments around and added small foam blocks here-and-there but nothing seems to change. I can't help but think the floor is the biggest culprit? I know the ceiling is not ideal either...it wasn't my idea and was really all I could afford with what was left of my budget.
Also, the trusses are very old in this garage and they won't hold a lot of weight...so we did the best we could with what we had to work with.
Could the carpet padding have added to the "warmth" of the room? It seems that all of that warmth is completely gone now. It's a dead space.
Some of you may have seen my thread about the drum room I built. Well, we moved to a new house and I tore down and re-built what is essentially the same room.
However, this one sounds terrible....I mean...absolutely *TERRIBLE*.
I've been putting up with it for months now but I'm finally at the point where I think I need to re-think the internal room treatments to improve it before I lose my mind.
The problem; bass frequencies are nearly non-existent. I'm playing very high-end drums that sound great everywhere else, so I'm positive I'm tuning them well. If I play in the house, my bass drum literally moves the air in the room. Stand in front of it and you're bound to lower your chances of having children. Take the same drum into my practice room and it sounds like a $10 cardboard box....wet....and filled with blankets.
Here's the old room:
http://www.drummerworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37523
The new one is essentially the same...but in a different garage. We tore down the old walls and built them into a small, detached garage at our new place. It's roughly the same size but is shaped a little more rectangular than the old one.
Here are the only differences:
- No carpet padding, just a layer of carpet over the cement foundation.
- Padding isn't wrapped around the bottom-half of the room like before, but rather in vertical strips (twin mattress size) scattered around the room.
- Celing in new room is styrofoam insulation over "sound board", old room had a flat, drywall celing.
- New room has no windows, old room had two (with padded covers to cut external volume)
I've moved some of the wall treatments around and added small foam blocks here-and-there but nothing seems to change. I can't help but think the floor is the biggest culprit? I know the ceiling is not ideal either...it wasn't my idea and was really all I could afford with what was left of my budget.
Also, the trusses are very old in this garage and they won't hold a lot of weight...so we did the best we could with what we had to work with.
Could the carpet padding have added to the "warmth" of the room? It seems that all of that warmth is completely gone now. It's a dead space.