Soundproof Home Studio for Recording

For any musicians, voice actors, screen actors, and podcasters they must have a Soundproof room which is useful for recording audio at home. There are various ways to soundproof your room to turn it into a suitable home recording studio.

Before you change and modify your Home Studio / Recording Room you must understand the concept of Soundproofing and Sound Absorbing. Soundproof means to protect both unwanted internal sound [should stay inside, and don’t disturb your neighbors] and external sound [should stay outside, and don’t disturb your recordings] where as Sound Absorbing means reduce the reflect of sound and noise.

Sound-absorbing and Soundproof materials –

Sound-absorbing materials will absorb most of the sound energy that collides with them and will not reflect much. These qualities make them useful in the control of noise within a enclosure room. Where as the Soundproofing materials involves in adding mass, damping, decoupling, and absorbing. These soundproof materials are usually dense and heavy, which allows them to decouple structures. And because of there density, instead of sound waves penetrating through the structure, they are reflected back into the space.

So if you are planning for using any materials for your recroding room, you need to consider all four walls , floor and even roof of your room.

Home used materials that can be used as sound absorbers –

1) You can use Soft and thick cloth / cotton Wall hangings like any paintings or desgining in side your room .

2) Floor Carpets and area rugs that you can use inside your room. Even if you have a good budget, installing wall to wall carpet will be a best option.

3) You can keep Sofa Cushions and pillows inside your room. Their soft surfaces, and porous material can absorb soundwaves.

4) For windows you can use thick cotton screen to protect sound inside room.

If you have budget and want a professional absorber materail you can use Acoustic Foam Panels. These materail have great sound absorption capabilities. These are made of with soft materail that are covered with porous fabrics which act as sound absorbers. You can use these panels in your room walls, doors , or ceilings.

Sound absorbing is a form of soundproofing. As we’ve learned above all the materials that used for mass, damping, decoupling, and absorbing.