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Those colorful throw rugs... was that the side where you stand and sing (I will call that the inside) or the other (out)side?



On the gobo, the rug is just for decoration primarily - I bought them at IKEA in Chicago many moons ago simply because I liked the colors.

The nap on the rug is only perhaps 1/4" deep, so it doesn't really do much for absorption when placed against a hard flat panel. In this case, the rug is up against 1/4" plywood.

On the wall, the rug is stapled to a framework that I made from 1"x2" material and hung from the ceiling by picture hanging wire. It stands out about 4" from the wall - making it actually effective as a means to stop the flutter echos that were present in the room. Reason: the high frequency waves have to 'work' to get through the weave of the rug; the energy that does get through hits the wall 4" behind and reflects back into the rug, where it has to work again to get through. That nearly completely killed the flutter echo in the room. Before the rug, you could clap and hear a sort of pinging sound as the waves bounced back and forth between the parallel walls. After, nothing.

Regarding your room - do you hear issues in the room? What happens when you clap in the locations where you want to do your recording? What does it sound like when you record with a cardioid condenser mic in the room, if you have one? Do you get a 'small room' boxy sound to acoustic guitars? If the answer is 'no', there might not be much that you have to do. Getting a full band in there and recording without significant bleed is going to be quite tricky.

I can say with absolute confidence that the monitor speaker location you have in the pictures is about the worst place you could put them in the entire room. Nearly guaranteed comb filtering at the listening location. Pull them out away from the wall at least a foot or two if you can, and then also get some absorption on the sloping ceiling anywhere you would be able to put a mirror and see the monitor speaker in the mirror from where your listening location is. Also, as rharv pointed out in the other thread, the speakers shouldn't be so far away from each other horizontally.

-Scott

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