Does anyone use wood for vibration control?


What kind of wood have you found to be best?
bksherm

michaelgreenaudio
915 posts04-26-2019 3:25pm

Hi Glupson

If you read some of Johnathan Skull’s writing (I think it was he) he used cardboard boxes partly filled with newspaper for trapping his corners. Cardboard and newspaper (not so much slick print) can be fun to play with.


>>>>Yeah, I’ve tried those. About 30 years ago if memory serves. Pretty straightforward energy dissipaters. We call those tweaks. They absorb standing waves in room corners, which just goes to show you that even acoustic vibrations should not all be allowed to roam free, if I can be so bold. The room just like the electronics and cabling requires forethought and a plan of attack. You might not have been paying very close attention, I have, to all the developments in room acoustics treatment that have occurred lo, these last 25 years or so. Really quite remarkable. Not saying your stuff isn’t good, too. But I digress. Back to the boxes with magazines, balled up newspaper, you can call them tuning if you want to. Poor man’s Tube Traps, whatever. Of course this wood and paper thing can work against you. Removing all telephone books, in fact all books and magazines and newspapers from the house does wonders for the sound. You can call that tuning, too, if you want.


"They absorb standing waves in room corners..."
Do they absorb, or not let them form?
Wow, people actually used newspapers as a part of audio manipulation.

"Removing all telephone books, in fact all books and magazines and newspapers from the house does wonders for the sound."
We must be living in the golden age of sound now. Not many phone books around, probably not even regular books. "Save the trees"


Interesting side note.

In our bands practice room/ recording studio... Yes sounds grander than it was!.

Covering all walls and ceilings I affixed egg cartons. In England used to supply eggs wholesale in eggcrates that were approx 24" square.

The SQ in the room while practicing and our humble 4 track recordings sounded pretty darn good to us for the cost invested.
They are the egg men. I am the egg man. I am the walrus, Goo goo g’joob.