Originally Posted By: Mike Halloran

My experience is similar to Ray's. Bookcases don't so much as absorb (they do a little) it's that they diffuse in a very healthy way.

The key is not to fill them up.

That'll be my problem with bookcases ... I find it almost impossible to stop them filling up!

It does occur to me that an open-backed celular structure like a bookcase, with curtains/drapes on the back and a set of castors, could be a very effective way to help manage sound in a room that isn't a proper dedicated studio. It can be stored ahainst the wall, pulled across the room to help both diffusion and damping of standing waves, use before or behind the mic/monitors/singer/listener. Physical stability of such a structure may well be a concern unless it's quite deep. It might be interesting to experiment.

Last edited by Gordon Scott; 05/16/23 12:19 AM.
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