12 Types of Acoustic Soundproofing Foam & Where to Affordably Buy it!
October 31, 2022
In the current day of heavily competitive content creation market where everybody needs the best quality content, ACOUSTIC SOUNDPROOFING FOAM is an essential requirement to properly treat your room in order to have the best sound for recordings, meetings, home theaters and podcasts.
However, one of the biggest issues are a few things: major brands charge way too much for their products because there are not enough “competitors” out there and other brands cheaply produce their product which leaves their customers in a frenzy when they find out they spent money trying to save a few dollars and their product is not effective, comes damaged, is a health liability and doesn’t last long.
Thankfully, we’ve been helping folks since 2011 deal with these issues and have served over 1,000+ clients and built hundreds of rooms.
Which leads us to the most important questions we get asked all the time in which we’ll help you with right here!
Curious to know about the many types of multi-purpose soundproof foam materials or where to buy it? Look no further, this blog will tell it all!
Acoustic soundproofing foam will help you eliminate echoes and diminish sound frequencies that are vibrating in your room. Sounds vibrate most off flat walls with no texture and off solid floors and ceilings. If a floor or room has ceramic, it will echo louder and the sound will carry heavier and further.
Acoustic Soundproofing Foam is used to maximize on "flattening" the sound in your room so when you record or play back music, the sounds do not echo throughout the room.
Sound frequencies are of high and low nature. Low frequencies are most deadly in squared corners so corner solutions aka bass traps are what you'll need to stop those low frequencies from vibrating all over the place.
The foam comes in various sizes of thickness and length. The thicker and longer they are, the higher sound absorption they will have.
Here are a list of all the various types of acoustic foam treatments that will help stop the sound frequencies from vibrating throughout the room.
If you'd like to be able to purchase them, feel free to click words which are hyperlinked to the merchandise display with images and description with various sizes.
1) Bass Trap Corner Cubes are used to absorb deep & low frequency waves and bass vibrations that echo most in corners of the room. These bass traps are great for any room size and are mounted at 90 degree angles.
In rooms with excess mid and low frequencies, corner cubes are ideal to pair with bass trap absorbers with fins to quickly and easily trap the heaviest form of vibration in the rooms that quickly amplify and spread across the entire space.
Any rooms that have multiple walls and extreme bass issues, we suggest bass traps in ever corner.
2) Acoustic Bass Traps are rigid corner solutions that will split up the bass frequencies as they enter the corners of the room and are the most common used in rooms, especially recording studios. Mounts at a 90 degree angle.
These are the most commonly used style of bass trap acoustic absorbers in any recording studio, engineer room or areas of heavy mid and low frequencies. The fins trap the variation of sounds so they cannot slide off and spread elsewhere.
They also pair quite nicely as general sound absorbers and with the two absorber options below.
3) Acoustic Corner Blocks can be placed in the corner of each room to stop the low frequencies (bass) from doing the most damage. Mounts at a 90 degree angle.
Ideally you’d want to keep sound from ricocheting off the 90 degree angles to spread to other walls which will amplify sound faster making it louder and more cumbersome.
They are amazing in engineer rooms, recording rooms or spaces that have long areas of un-treated space within home theaters or workspaces.
4) Male / Female Broadband Bass Trap Absorbers are long strips of ribbed, reversed cut foam that can be mounted on the walls and are best used on the opposite side of which direction the bass in the room is traveling. They are cut in a yin/yang pattern.
5) Acoustic Eggcrate Sound Treatment Foam is good for a general foam to place on walls to decently stop both high and low frequencies. It gets it's name because it simply looks like an eggcrate. It is a good option for those on a budget but for those that need precision, we suggest the options below.
6) Acoustic Pyramid Soundproofing Wedge Foam is similar to wedge foam in that it's high durability and great performance choice for deadening sound at an affordable price. It has a slightly different characteristic for absorbing sound than the wedge since it has four edges instead of two.
It absorbs slightly less sound but has different usage styles. This material is great for basic soundproofing needs for moderate sound control preferable on walls or ceilings. This material is better for basic usage for sound deadening and is not recommended for extreme audio soundproofing needs. It is most effective in mid-to-high ranges of frequencies.
7) Acoustic Triangle Wedge Soundproofing Foam is the most popular acoustic foam which outperforms and outlasts the "competition" at affordable pricing.
Because the foam is machine cut, you can expect it to be nearly identical, side to side. Wedge foam provides outstanding sound absorption qualities, a professional appearance and minimal installation effort.
The wedge foam is effective against flutter echoes and standing waves in rooms such as vocal booths, control rooms and studios.
The triangle wedge is also a great full frequency bandwidth absorber for any size of room when it's paired with corner blocks, bass traps or male/female broadband absorbers.
They can also help absorb sound frequencies omitting from the other side of doors or by building panels that can moved around instead of mounted on walls.
8) Acoustic Spade Soundproofing Sheets are the cleanest and simplest way to sound deadening because they have been aesthetically tiled to help reduce the sonic waves bouncing around the room. They have a beautiful geometric layout which eases the mind and the sound waves rippling through the room.
They are large enough to cover large amounts of space on a wall in one fell swoop making them easier to install and less hassle for mounting. If you were to expand your studio (or room), they would never lose their patterns and would still keep their visual continuity.
They are complimentary with an interlocking two-panel set, one which has a border whereas the other is borderless.
The amount of space these panels can cover when soundproofing makes them an easy choice for people deadening their rooms that want a clean look and design with minimal mounting effort.
By rotating every other panel by 180 degrees you can make up an alternate pattern or keep the pattern with a uniform design, the choice is yours.
9) Acoustic Wave Soundproofing Sheets have an amazingly calming effect while at the same time absorbing and deadening the sounds in the room.
This set of two is sold in an interlocking set where one panel has a border and the other does not.
Due to the large size of the panel, it can cover a lot of space at once making it a great choice for large areas that are meant to be treated and saving time otherwise spent with smaller individual panels when mounting them.
The "bordered" acoustic wave panels have three columns of raised ripples and the edgeless panel has four, giving the option for mixing and matching in your room.
10) Acoustic Grid Soundproofing Sheets are the cleanest way and simplest way to sound deadening which have been aesthetically tiled to help reduce the sonic waves bouncing around the room.
They capture the mids and lows frequencies very well especially in engineer or live rooms and should be placed strategically in areas where the direction of the most sound will be headed first.
They are large enough to cover large amounts of space on a wall in one fell swoop making them easier to install and less hassle for mounting. If you were to expand your studio, they would never lose their patterns and would still keep their visual continuity.
11) Acoustic Drop Ceiling Tiles are mounted on the roof to deaden any sounds from the top of roof outside from entering the room and the sounds from within the room from echoing off the roof.
Because the ceiling is often overlooked for where to treat sound, which rises, it’s always a good idea to create a cloud above where most the sound frequencies will travel and spread to other corners of the room to amplify the sounds.
12) Monitor Isolation Wedges can be placed under the monitor speakers to keep them from vibrating their sound frequencies through the objects they are sitting on and to keep them from moving as well.
The reason for this is because monitors can rattle all variations of sound frequencies and it travels through the platform they are sitting on, for instance a desk.
There are more kinds of foam panels, bass traps and sheets, yet we carry the most essential acoustic soundproof treatment because these are what most studios and recording spaces use most frequently.
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Hope to help you with your acoustic treatment and would love to see your room afterwards! Always super exciting to help and see others succeed doing what they love most!
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