DIY Acoustic Panel and Bass Trap Frames
Do-It-Yourself Acoustic Panels and Bass Traps… To Frame or Not to Frame Often people decide to build their own acoustic panels and bass traps for reasons ranging from budget constraints to needing entire customized setups. GIK Acoustics offers a wide...
Audio Examples of Treated vs Untreated Room
We are often asked what are the real effects of a treating a room with acoustic products. For some customers, reading charts and test graphs don’t always illustrate the benefits of proper room acoustics. With that in mind, we put...
Understanding Decay Times and Waterfall Graphs
Decay time waterfall graphs and frequency response charts are tools to measure the acoustics of a room. This article looks to demystify and explain what these graphs and charts really mean. Most of us have seen frequency response charts before...
The Basics of Room Acoustics: Bass Traps, Diffusors, Acoustic Panels
This video explores the basics of room acoustics and also how to treat the acoustics of a room. Most of us are in smaller, residential listening spaces which are on average 12ft X 15ft X 8ft in size. We usually...
Diffusors are used to treat sound imperfections in rooms such as echoes and are an excellent complement to sound absorption because they do not remove sound energy. In this video we’ll examine How Diffusion Works. Diffusion is often a misunderstood...
Understanding Different Bass Trapping
Bass Trapping: The Low-Down on Low Frequency Absorbers by Alexander Reynolds There are many types of different bass trapping and low frequency treatments available for recording studios, control rooms, home theaters, and listening rooms alike. Whether you’re looking at tuned...
Acoustic Treatments in Listening Room
Zalan Schuster, a GIK Acoustics dealer and acoustic technician in Slovakia, places acoustic treatments in a Listening Room in Pardubice, Czech Republic. Zalan Schuster Acoustics alansch@hotmail.com www.facebook.com/ZalanSchusterAcoustics www.zs-acoustics.com The room is 5.5 m x 4.1 m x 3m high; which...
Video: Testing for Corner Bass Trap Placement
This video illustrates a simple method to determine corner bass trap placement using a flicker noise (also called pink noise) audio file. As illustrated in our previous GIK Acoustics educational video “Bass Traps and Understanding Lower Frequencies,” bass reflects off...
Bass Traps and Understanding Low Frequencies
GIK Acoustics continues our educational video series with Bass Traps & Understanding Lower Frequencies. This video examines how low end frequencies move in a room and how bass traps can solve these problems. Before we can identify where frequency response...