How To Make A Bedroom Home Studio Sound Great With NO Money!
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- With the UK in lockdown, we're doing the responsible thing and working from home as much as possible. But Mark's spare room sounds AWFUL!! So what can be done? It's amazing what a vast improvement you can make to even the worst sounding spaces with a little imagination, and a few things you'll have around the house!
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Ah, so my room is not messy, it's just acoustically treated!
🤣Same here!
yeah i’m suddenly realizing why i never worried about this as a teenager in a bedroom surrounded by a total mess. as an adult with a clean apartment this became a problem. great advice sir, thank you.
A great excuse not to tidy up! I didn’t actually think of it like that, but you’re right!
There is a hell of a lot of crap on TH-cam regarding acoustics and room design. This is an exception. Although I have been involved with several builds/designs of studios and venues, I seem to pick up something new from every PresentDayProduction video I watch.
This is genuinely the best channel on TH-cam for practical information and honest advice on building a good control room. Thank you.
Mark - what advice would you give for open plan room design?
My late mother was a singer so I used her old towels and duvet wrapped in white Draylon (synthetic crushed velvet) in my vocal booth and it works beautifully! I'm glad, its a nice tribute to mum :o)
I recorded the ticking of a metronome and looked at the wave to see the reverb tail in my untreated room.
I was shocked to see the amount of Reverberation on the wave of the tick.
I remembered that my wife chose some curtains for a patio door that she did not end up using them, so I made a false curtain on the entire back wall and that alone made a huge difference
On top of having great content, this channel has a truly unique type of wackiness. Fascinating stuff.
I love your helper, the cat. I can tell he's fascinated by work--he can watch it all day long!
I have a feeling that we'll all be grateful that the pandemic happened because it brought us this quality channel, which actually helps probably 80% of musicians making their music at home and in project studios. Great stuff!
The creativity and simplicity is genius. And just plain fun!! It’s given SO MANY cool ideas for what I can do with my room and genuinely excited for the first time about room treatment (or room improvement rather!)
Dear Mark, what camera did you such an injustice with the sun behind you? Love your channel. Brutally honest, and with a few exceptions I agree with your conclusions. Comment applies not just to this video but to many other videos also, . The towel idea is brilliant., it shocked me cos I've been using a similar idea, without the wood panels, using only towels, but never dared to mention this to anyone, for fear of them thinking I was stupid. But it worked for me - been using this for about 4 years, and what a relief to hear the effectiveness in your own spare bedroom. Brilliant - one of the best videos on audio I have ever watched. Fantastic - real world - no BS advice. Well done.
Thanks for the comment! iPhone camera for that one I think... we’re using a Black Magic 6K for everything after the Pultec video 👍
Thanks PDP! I have been meaning to do something about my square bedroom studio for ages...and never got around to it. This has given me the inspiration I needed. I hated the thought of spending money on accoustic treatment but you have shown me that it's possible to achieve freat result for minimum outlay. Fantastic!
Instead of making wooed frames with all the trouble and work with saws guns sanders screws brackets and glue etc., I went to my local DIY store and bought 6 flatpack cardboard packing boxes. Once home all that is needed is to cut of the top and bottom flaps off with a stanley knife Then i drew a line all the way round the four sides then cut round this line giving me two boxes 6ins thick.I then filled them with a wool like insulation and simply tied them together with a thin cord. Job done. Cover them if you like i didnt and just stacked then around my room, never sounded better.
That's the channel I've been seeking for a long long time! Great job, guy! Thanks ❤
Extremely well done...unbelievable difference!
Great video! People spend too much time doing reviews of gear (nothing against it, I watch quite some of them) but not enough of "How to" and DIY videos of acoustics! Most people, me included, have a crappy room that they have to work with sometimes, this is great content for all of us. Cheers!
Fantastic video! Well done and fun to watch and listen too! Thanks
Love the cat watching you build frames, so entertained by your work.
Awesome vid, picked up some tricks on going cheap which is always really nice.
Very nice advice and proves that it is possible to improvise a solution for free. Cheers
Great video. Loved the scene where the cat was supervising as well!
Wow, I know from experience what a challenge a small cube room is to treat. I can't believe how much better that sounds. Towels instead of rockwool? Just wow.
Thanks for this fantastic video! I’m just setting up my home studio mix room properly and purchased a prime acoustics room panel kit and it’s been sitting in the box for two weeks. I’ve been going down rabbit holes and getting totally confused with where to start and place things. This video was very helpful at identifying the critical areas and cheap and effective ways to treat the room.
Man that's a different room to my ears! Great work!
BRILLIANT! I'm about to do something similar myself. Thanks!
I use heavy moving blankets that I can get for $10 a piece at a local hardware store on the walls of my live room and it does great for cutting down reflections.
Great little vid Mark. There will be a few critics but they are not seeing the great point you are making which is you can have basic and almost free acoustic treatment done to your space without the need for forking out a shed load of money! Will be great for home DJ's and Producers who haven't got the money to spend. New subscriber on board. Will check out your mastering service too. Cheers
Thanks for the great simple tips.
Great video and nice to see the subs growing on this great channel 😀😀😀
3:23 made my day :) "I've found some wood, I've got a saw and I have a massively overexposed head, but who cares..." Thank you for the video !
Thanks so much for all smart advices 😀
All your Videos are just awesome! Keep it up please :)
Very inspiring, thank you
Very inspiring. I really enjoyed this video. Thank you for sharing. Time to go get some wood, fabric and the densest towels I can find 🍻
great work men! have a great day! I used paint frames with stuff inside and a big curtain and a sofa, that worked out for the moment :)
Love these guys. Keep doing what you’re doing I’ll share some videos for you.
Thank you very much Nate!
Sounds great quite an improvement!
You’re a good chap, sir. Great video.
Thank you so much I really appreciate this video I am new to your channel I have all of my equipment I need for a home studio now I just need to properly treat my room I’m eventually going to get better monitors studio monitors
Very inventive, cool! Subscribed :)
Thank you for this I’ve been struggling for so long
Thanks Mark. Great content.
Really appreciate this.
Really nice results!
This was very entertaining thank you
Thanks for this great video! For my studio space, when recording, I plan to move my mattress onto the back wall, put some jumpers and clothes in the corners and hang up a thick duvet on the last untreated wall. My question for you is: What is the best way to temporarily hang a duvet up on the wall? I have two mic stands, one large and one about half size, and permanently installing hooks or something to the wall is out of the question as we're putting our home on the market very soon (my new home will have a treated dedicated studio hopefully!).
Additional: I mix on headphones almost exclusively as I cannot afford monitors at this stage, so it's only when recording that I need treatment! Although now I think about it, I will probably use my iMac speakers for reference points.
Great stuff
The thumbnail is so goddamn hilarious 😂
Just came across a couple of your videos and quite enjoying your content. Cheers from a fellow music maker.
wow, what a great thumbnail.. so original!
Great vid bud, thanks heaps
With a mixer like that, nothing can go wrong 😁
You're killing me with the handsaw . Carpenter for 38 years . I think I would have used 1x4 pine or 31/2 strips of decent stable plywood . 2x4s have a mind of their own especially after a period of time . And heavy. But room sounds great now.
Quality video really useful for bedroom producers.
Great video 👍👍
thanks. Great, inspiring video
Brilliant, I’m just about to try and tame my square room too!
Nice video! 😁
Wow Mark, it sounds like a completely different room! I’m about to move into a rectangular room (apartment) with concrete walls/ceiling, carpet on floor and big loft style window behind my desk. Hoping I can treat it with your tips!
Hey Ryan, yeah it sounds generally great now - a few issues in the low end, but that’s to be expected in a square room, and bumps are mainly in the corners and dips are in the middle, so behind the listening position. Try and get your speakers firing down the long end of the room when you move, and try to get your listening position about a third or two thirds down. Avoid the middle. Let us know how you get on!
I love the production of the video. Liked and subscribed. I don't think my wife would be very pleased, however, if I were to stack bags of compost in the back bedroom and put a mattress up against the wall.
Still very relevant over a year later. Thanks.
pillowcases stuffed with rockwool then sealed with duck tape can be put in various places
Heck yeah, I have lots of rock wool just laying arround on my loft 😁💪💪
@@DIFY Where do I find bulk rock wool?
I got my box room to treat. Thanks for your tip.
Very usable information on this channel.
Thanks Marin!
Neat tips! Thx
great vision for improving a room!
Thank you 🙏
I'm currently stripping all the heavy stuffing out from a futon mattress i'v had laying about for years.
Extremely dense fibers,
and you can find them second hand on FB marketplace/Gumtree etc usually for £10 or so. If you're lucky, free to collect.
I plan to use the material in acoustic panels.
You forgot the Yeti, imagine what difference this would have made as well.
love this guy. mad beast. great writer
Best Rockwool cutter? An electric carving knife, from any thrift shop, or any charity shop. Soft up front with your speakers, middle of the side walls, not of soft, and the wall behind you, acoustic wooden dispensers.
Wooden pallets and stacked, plastic milk crates, stuffed with clothing and linens (salvaged from the waste stream of thrift stores and donation centers) ... GOOD books, for free, from the waste stream of half-priced book re-sellers.
Thanks for this, Mark. Great combination of succinct info & humour. So helpful!
Can you believe that my absorbers filled with towels and foam from an old couch sounded better, than now with rockwool?? I was a quitw dissapointed of the result. I couldn't messure it, but the treated area was subjectively very dry an well balanced (nearly no thump while talk, like the air was thinner in thaz spot) compared to the rest of the room. It was magical. 😃 rockwool does his job, but this complete dry effect is gone.. 😔 is this possible, or do my ears trick me ?
Btw, your video inspired me to built my first absorbers .. it was a game changer!! Thanks a lot 💚
Wicked job.
Thank you!
I'm in a rental house, I like this idea, though I would probably have to just lean the panels, because I would not be able to drill holes or any thing, though I have acoustic foam and used belcro and command strips. they hold a little but I need some thing better because they tend to fall off at times.
Great Video! What type console/mixer is that ? Is it audio AND video? Thanks!
Nice to see Wonkie helping out!....
By ‘helping out’ you mean sitting there watching, until my face is within swiping distance?!
Thanks a lot for this Mark, this really helps me. Question: do you think the plants are doing anything acoustically?
7:50 nice variation on the classic “TH-cam background iMac flex”; the disused Mac as prop for stuff.
Got any decent ways to do DIY testing on any more serious attempts at sound treatment one might build (without access to an anechoic chamber)? I do have a UMIK-1 and REW.
Hi Mark. Noticing the blinds on the window behind your desk, I was wondering what effect blinds would have? Like ceiling to floor vertical blinds, especially fabric ones. Just curious ?
Thanks for the great video! What headphones do you master on?
When redoing my home "studio" I got exactly that same IKEA desk! But in black :-)
Great Video
I had a question about the window in the back behind the speakers do you need a curtain back there or are the shutters enough to absorb sound ?
Immediate thumbs up for the dedication to social distancing. Nice DIY skills too!
Can you talk about the board and monitor you are using what DAW thanks great job
thanks
Awesome tips! That unmask a bit a room treatment, from headache to nice solutions :) BTW what are those white speakers there? Thanks
They’re LD Systems Dave 8 XS
@@PresentDayProduction Thanks a lot for the reference, looks nice, wonder how they sound.
i used towels a couple of years ago in my studio, i didn't even bother with frame, i just put up a couple of towel racks and draped about five towels over each of the racks, plus i got an air gap behind the towels.
That's so cool!!!
How well did it work???
@@zachary963 I put the towel racks at the reflection points of the room, I also made a couple of rockwool corner panels, but ran out of rockwool, so I used the towels, I think they work quite well, better than nothing . Thanks for great content.
Nice work. What’s your desk there?
Any advice on speakerplacement? Soooo many people are hammering on keeping the perfect triangle. How do you experience this?
Can you rank which items were most important?I have 20 x 25 foot room with wood floors, and ceiling going from 8 to 12 foot and having a heck of a time killing echoes. we have rugs, couches, and some sound absorbing panels but still have issues.
Great video and such a difference! I'm about to start on a similar room. Currently.the setup is against the long wall with a big window to my left (which is where my first reflection is).
Is it better to out it all in front of the window instead? Or keep with the slightly longer wall? Thank you!
@@MattStory1024 You have posted this unnecessary reply on shitloads of comments, Are you alright do you need someone to talk to? Go make some music and stop being such an English word for cigarette.
thanks!
How did you hold the towels inside? And did you put a backing on the panels?
Out of interest, how did you get on with using the DAVE 8XS for monitoring? On paper, the system response curve is smiley, and the subwoofer could go a bit lower, but the mids seemed quite detailed when I tried it.
any changes to the recording mic untreated vs treated? if not that's a pretty impressive change
It sounds like you switched to a lav mic for the "after" portion of the video.
Great video brother. Btw which desk you have there?
It’s a PreSonus StudioLive 32 Series III
Can I ask what Speaker stands they are in this video? Can you vary the hight on them ?