AcousticSoundPanels.com's Designwall 440 Homasote Featuring Guilford of Maine Fabric is made from a dense, fiber-based material that is effective at absorbing sound and reducing reflection. It is commonly used as a backing material for sound panels to improve the acoustics of a space and reduce noise levels.
Q: Will Acoustic Panels and Bass Traps make my studio sound proof?A: No, that is called sound isolation and soundproofing material costs BIG $$$. Adding sound absorbing panels will result in noticeable noise reduction, but not enough to completely prevent a nosy neighbor from hearing your music.
Q: How are the panels normally attached to the wall?A: Our panels come with our professional installation kit for neat and secure installation on drywall, wood, or concrete walls. You can also order our 2″ off-wall mounting kit for additional absorption.
Q: How is Roxul better than foam absorption material for bass traps?A: For bass trapping, Roxul soundproofing insulation does a great job from the deep bass and up, while foam wedges seem to do very little to nothing until you reach 250hz. Foam wedge bass traps had virtually no effect on the decay time below [...]
Q: How is Roxul better than foam absorption material for acoustic sound panels?A: While 2-inch panels are effective down to 250Hz, foam panels are useless below 500hz. You also need two times as many foam panels to match the effectiveness of our 2″ sound panels. Not to mention, acoustic sound panels just look better!Have more [...]
Soundwave® Floby Karim Rashid Soundwave® Flo is designed to be used as a lightweight sound absorber in the upper frequency range (500 Hz and above). These panels help reduce disturbing reflections of environmental noise such as voices, telephones etc. Creating Flo Karim Rashid was inspired by sound waves and digital data. Rashid believs that people today live [...]
One of the things that we recommend our customers do with their Bass Traps / Acoustical Panels is to mount them 2-4" off the wall. The absorption is 4 times higher at 500hz and below. This happens because the sound goes through the panel, travels to the wall bounces back and passes through the panel [...]
This has to be one of our favorite emails of all time...Q. "My friend and I are having an argument over the customized accoustic panels we are building for my home theater. Can you confirm the proper spelling? Are they called Acoustic Panels or Accoustic Pannels?"A. Acoustic Panels, please wear safety glasses and good luck!
Why Do You Need Room CorrectionIn an ideal world, there would not be any need for equalization, room correction, room treatment, bass management, crossover settings or level adjustment. Sound systems would be perfect on their own without any room correction and would reproduce perfect signals in all rooms. Plus, if everyone had perfect hearing and [...]
Q: How many acoustic panels do I need in my room? A: Ideally You hire a professional acoustician like Bob Hodas to tell you exactly what your room needs, for the rest of us on a budget… start with a DIY Basic Room Acoustic Measurement with acoustic analysis software like Freeware Room EQ Wizard (Win, Mac and Linux) or Fuzzmeasure [...]