High-Performance DIY Acoustic Panels (Build Guide)
In this video I'll be showing you how to build some very high performance acoustic sound absorption panels that look aesthetically superb. Consider visiting Patreon.com/DIYPerks to support what I do here on ARworlds.
50MM Hexagonal Spacer:
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3D Printable Bracket:
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Just fyi: if you need a 3D printer and or a fully equipped workshop its not exactly DIY its *I'm actually a small scale shop owner who's made [ITEM] in my spare time
What is the white material ?
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how does it compare to the blanket version?
this could also be used to make LED Light panels with a adjustments to the design overall
I was just about to go out and get those towels only to see this video pop up. now i'm confused.
Huge difference man, great job!
i’m over here making towel panels like “that’s cool tho”
Asbestos is probably sound absorbing
For anyone who sees my comment check out his other video where he uses towels, much easier to do in my opinion and just as good
Cool content!
Sir how to make DIY cheap studio monitors
1. you need a 3d printer 2. you need a friend welp i dont have both
this is wonderful, am supper excited let's go build ours
"Hon, have you seen the new 800 thread count Egyptian Cotton sheets I just bought?"
Would these help to stop noise passing through a wall to a neighbours house?
Do these also work for sound proofing?
not ideal for a musicstudio.........the triangels vibrate when the music has a high bass in it !.....to do just talinkg video's it is really good.......nice craftwerk btw ;-)
#5:30 -- Wasn't another perk that found out towels was much better than these materials ?
This ones vs the you ones you made out of towels?
would these be useful in garage for blocking road noise ?
4:39 damnit you need a friend for this build. Where can I buy one?
Thank you for the inspiration! I tried to follow a made a few triangles. The worst thing was to get all the components from e-shop(s). I also decided to go for triangles with length of a=500 mm so I need to additionally cut ALU profiles. Also facing was kind of tricky for me, but the more I created the more I was skilled. Thank you again!
I sound dead without any help
great idea for diy panels. Even owning a 3d printer, there’s no way i could get the materials to equal $5 per panel. more like $20-25 for a 16in equilateral triangle frame.
What size is the aluminum L bar you jack ass ? THAT WOULD FKING BE GOOD
What about the use of towels? You did that video in 2016.
The limey didn’t like my comments eh?
Once you made these the first thing I thought of was cheap canvas panels, I guess the canvas itself would be quite hard and cause sound to bounce?
if you have money for a 3d printer I'm guessing you have money to buy professional acoustic panels. who is this video for?
How do the insulation panels compare with the towel panels that you made in another video?
3d printer ahhhhh
I love your videos and im not knocking what you just did but these are $2 a panel www.amazon.com/dp/B08DV2HZ95/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_Bo-9FbVH2CGB9?psc=1
wait..what if the room's walls are concrete or brick?
Good grief. You can buy foam panels on Amazon for about $1 each.
you look like Ramsay from GOT and its off-putting me haha
Anybody found an alternative to that Aluminum frame? I cant fine anything like those online
I just hang a rug across the wall. Ditto for the floor. Creativity gave way to impatience. Works, like right now!
Rock wool is the best compared to any other foam
Matt you are so hot and have really nice eyes !!
i dont have a drywall or a 3d printer or aluminium guess ill buy the cheap shit from amazon thats like 50 cents a piece
I gave a like as soon as i heard this gentleman speak... this is like one of those Hi Movie intros..
Ouuu this man on a perc
SPOONGE
The band practice rooms I used to practice at had cardboard egg pallets bolted to the walls and fluffy carpet glued over that. The carpet soaks up a lot of sound and the egg pallets reduced the presence of flat surface and hard angles, thereby scattering the sound and reducing revib
Would be cool to add rgb to this concept!
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I like the idea of triangles. However, your corners are not sharp enough for my taste. Also, you are using the wrong absorption material. Foam and plain Rock Wool will not absorb as deep as high-density rock wool. You can buy this as near-solid sheets from both Rock Wool and Isover. Rockfon (not cheap) also sells these and they have acoustics graphs so you can see the performance. You can also add a little space behind the absorbers - it will let them absorb deeper frequencies.
Man.. do not touch house insulation with bare hands! Always use gloves!!!
Thanks for the video! Out of curiosity does the aluminium frame do anything other than hold everything? I would have thought that having metal would only make sound bounce around more.. Is it not possible to just sew a cover around the foam and hang it up? Essentially make wall cushions!?
You are number one! Dude. Thank you!
Ribbit insted of screws eaven cheaper
DIY with hard to obtain materials and equipments. NO THANKS
Superb project. Love it. However, you forgot the ceiling.
Sponge Really//////////// a total waste of time and money .
Would this work the same if you took a painters canvas, and filled that with the insulation instead?
Can these reduce my wife's voice also?
Holy guacamole that's a big difference! Nicely done as always!
Yes, please compare these to your towel panels! I like the shape and may make towel panels with this shape and fabric vs the original square panels
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Always superb content
As an audio engineer, definitely appreciate this. I watched some other video of yours and was wondering how good your audio quality is as compared to some other youtubers
Awesome
What a joke!!! You can’t just start making panels!!! One must measure knowing the use case of the space. Stop listening to these people and hire a professional, that is if you are serious about solving the problems!!!
Leaving an air gap btw. the panel and the wall would vastly increase LF absorbtion performance. Because of refraction and also getting quite more absorbing surface
How good is this compared to towels?
Great DIY project! You are a most resourceful bloke sir! Small point of pedantry - You only need to say "one, two" when testing a mic: the "one" is the bass, the "two" is the treble.
What about the towels you used in your other video? Why didn’t you them?
maybe a stupid question but what are the dimensions of the aluminum profiles?
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What type of Rockwool has been used? Thank you
I would expect some kind of a composite internal material would be more effective (two sheets of different stuff instead of just one).
In case of the foamy material the whole aluminum bracket seems redundant. Why not just wrap the piece of foam with fabric?
Actually, how you managed to mount it on the wall ? 😦 I didn't get it !😦
It needs to be said that you can go over board by putting up to much and completely killing any liveliness that your room may have, so don't put up to much you just want to tame the amount of reverberation in the room and not completely kill it. Nice vid as usual.
that breadknife technique tho 💯
DIY Perks never misses
Hello. 5:50 what exactly should i read to see if it is safe? thanks
Hi. How does these compare to the once you made earlier with towls ? =)
why didn't you use towels this time? which one is better?
This is DIY, with an engineering degree and 20 years of construction experience. But then, yes, it’s DIY.
Crazy difference, thank you and cheers
Could you do a DIY tutorial on a mini box style sound booth for people who do vocal recordings?
The foam looks really good just without the fabric
after watching multiple videos on acoustic panels, I realized I dont need these
If i use wood to build the same triangular structure would i still get the same result?
com as suas dicas eu fiz esse, sou teu fâ olha isso arworlds.info/video/yJihqJerm4yoiKI/fydyw
I am sajee
Which frequencies do your diy panels absorb / diffuse / trap? What's their absorption coefficient rating?
Mmmhhh... I think I already have already seen this in a different channel: Tech Ingredients almost 1yr. before this publication. See for yourselves. arworlds.info/video/3JeksHd2o4lnsHQ/fydyw
I wanted to be able to experiment easily for the space I was working in. So, I used bed sheets (clean and washed) to spray glue the foam "v" squares onto the sheets. Then I mounted the sheets with the attached foam squares on the walls around the space. I believe it helped quite a bit because they also have a little space between the foam and the walls to catch the sound passing through twice as several have mentioned here.
Thanks for this! I had to make a quick sound studio at home for my daughter who needed to record video audition songs for music school. I didn't have time for this type of project. But, now that we are done I can go back and make several of these panels to replace the not very pretty standard foam "v" shaped squares I used. Have a great day!
never know Theon Greyjoy started his youtube channel after GOT
Do I need studiopanels? No! But I really do want them now. This channel's is worse than Aliexpress
you love aluminum.. don't you? 😂😂
Those triangular panels look great! Also check out Tech Ingredients' channel, they tested quite a few diffrent materials with frequency sweeps in an anechoic chamber.
Soviet people hang up carpet on wall for same reasons.
making them triangles is a stroke of genius in itself, thats probably one of the biggest reasons this works so well
Why even start with aluminium framing? You could make an easier frame with cut plywood. Frankly, why do you even need to bother with the frame in the first place? Surely you can just cut some rockwool or foam, stick some long nails on each end, then cover it in fabric. You should be able to attach them to the wall with the same effectiveness. Use a hollow rod and a washer even to get right distance. Is it all because you just want really sharp corners on triangles?
Great tutorial, thanks! Definitely will make the same, but hexagonal.