We have some beautiful 60-year old pressed tin ceilings and almost 80 yr old wood floors. We love them, but our space was basically an echo chamber when we moved in.
- Angel's comments about area rugs and soft furniture and some canvas art on the walls is right on. - We've used Homasote for a couple of bulletin boards, too. We painted it and have not had much chipping, but we only cut and spread out 2 4x8 slabs, so we might not have had enough to notice the chipping yet. - The links people provided to the acoustic foam are helpful. I avoided them for awhile because I could not find them that cheap. Instead I used some carpet tiles.... - Carpet tiles: Cheap <http://www.homedepot.com/b/Flooring-Carpet-Carpet-Tile-Carpet-Tile/N-5yc1vZbo4w>! We used them for our phone rooms to cover drywall. A great trick that our carpenter discovered is to use a staple gun around the perimeter of each tile to staple to the drywall. Ignorant of such things, I had originally thought that we would have to use some noxious chemical to attach them to the drywall. We left the corners exposed to add acoustic foam when we found some on the cheap, but the sound improved so much that we have never done it. On Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 4:20:53 PM UTC-4, Angel Kwiatkowski wrote: > > Sound reflection is the hardest...I have a minor master's degree in > acoustics after setting up our shared rehearsal space: Cohere Bandwidth. > Our use is for rock bands so the construction of our space is super > specific and not at all helpful to what you need. However, these little > guys come in fun colors and are super affordable. About $31 per 3'x4' worth > of tiles. > http://www.amazon.com/2x12x12-CHARCOAL-Acoustic-Soundproofing-Studio/dp/B00ATPD9T0/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1443557641&sr=8-4&keywords=acoustic+foam+panels > > You'd be aiming for about 30% coverage total over all your > walls/floors/ceilings. Giant area rugs are spectacular. Whatever you > do--don't paint acoustic sound panels. You destroy their effectiveness. Re: > the shedding that Alex experienced, you'll get that from "glass wool" or > fiberglass panels and that stuff's not fun to clean up and it can make you > itchy. > > I'd also check on a spray-on solution for your ceiling > http://www.sonaspray.com/ this product would completely mitigate any > sound reflection off your ceiling. > > Angel > > On Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 8:59:02 AM UTC-6, Gretchen Bilbro wrote: >> >> We have a main room with a concrete floor and plaster walls with high >> ceilings. The echo is so bad when you get more than five people in the >> space. I know I have seen round 3D sound control ball type things that hang >> from the ceiling in some spaces but am having trouble finding it online. >> Any help? >> > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
