DIY ACOUSTIC CURTAIN
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- My DIY Acoustic Curtain
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One of the more enjoyable things about building my studio was trying to repurpose items from Home Depot to solve whatever issue I had. Numerous times an employee asked “can I help you find something sir?” My response was often “I can’t tell you what I’m looking for but I’ll know it when I see it.”
FYI: I did this to my old spot on the windows & those blankets deteriorate over time.
The backing ends up turning all dusty & blue & will drop particles everywhere.
If you can, cover the exposed side asap.
Sun damage really destroys the original covering.
Thanks for the info! Fortunately this curtain will only be up when I’m shooting video, or for 20 or 30 minutes during sunset
Would tinting the windows help reduce the sun damage?
@@benchang3908 I reckon it definitely would help for sure!
same experience with like 5 of them i put up for a remodel and did not look until to late. its is horrible and ruins them as well. i think a used rectangle sleeping bag unzipped is best. goodwill $10-15.
@@charliechan578 excellent idea with the sleeping bags especially if I can get them from local thrift stores. My planned budget just decreased exponentially which is a needed break for the situation. Thx Greg!
FUN FACT: 4 layers of towels actually deaden sound more than traditional acoustic paneling (and moving blankets.) I attached several layers of towels to my curtains with giant safety pins. Make sure you have strong curtain rods for the extra weight...Easy budget friendly solution!
Really? What size panel would you say is stronger than four layers of towels (or what I’d assume is about 3/4” of towels).
@@kirkyardley761 I don't know the details, I couldn't find the original video where the guy compares it to panels, but here is one comparing it to foam ruclips.net/video/2eKwb58vvFI/видео.htmlsi=Z5-YLQ-F26tjPqmD
I'm totally in the same situation now! But my plan is to get speaker / lighting stands and a pole to sit on top, so I have a non-permanent set up. I can then move it, or even use it as a room divider, amongst other things.
Hey Colt, bang on, I have to deal with the same situation but at at larger scale, the window to treat is 20'x8'. That being said, I have done some measurements with a calibrated mic (Dayton audio), measurement software (REW, free). The blankets starts to make a difference around 180 hz, the difference is higher as we are moving higher in frequencies. At 1Khz and higher, each layer of blanket gives a 5 db reduction. I have tested with 2 layers. Nothing fancy, usual moving blankets from the hardware store. If you guys wants to see this, I can share screen captures of the measurements.
A tension shower curtain rod would work also. They make heavy duty ones.
I think the light remaining is framing you and don't look that bad, in fact for me seems very cool, like you have 3 large leds ligths...like a frame within a frame...but if the porpoise is remove completely the light well just cover all up. jeje
Great video Colt! I've been in some form of a basement studio with no windows for almost 15 years. Just purchased a new home and I said no more dark, dingy basements. I need natural light! So I will probably be making something like this. Thanks!
Congrats!!
That burst sunlight is gorgeous.
Check this out: I also bought myself a $100 Gazebo / Pergola (200cm x 200cm) and placed it in my basement on a noise absorbing rug. I left the outside "walls" off and placed moving blankets on all five sides. Got myself a 10M led strip for the inside and some bass traps in the corners and foam on the inside off the blankets. Super easy set-up for recording with my D18 and singing at the same time straight into my iPhone using the Roland Go Pro mix. Call me cheap but I just love my little "tent" inside my basement. Nice and cozy. Love your channel man!.....
I have some blackout curtains from Ikea that do the trick, but definitely aren’t as acoustically controlled...packing blanket quilt is a great idea!
Literally just moved into a new home and need to put an acoustic curtain in... it's like you read my mind! Thanks brother. :)
I was going to make a fabric wrapped piece of mdf to put inside my window frame, but this looks way classier! Thats for sharing the gip, I'm gonna make this
cool man. couple of suggestions for anyone doing this themselves: Don't make the curtain the exact size of the window. make it notably bigger. there's nothing wrong with it being close and wavy. that way you have excess to cover those gaps in the sides. 2, if you can; don't put the rod inside the window well. that makes it hard to get rid of light coming in around the edges. instead, mount the rod above the window, and going past the outer edges of the window well. that way no light creeps in from the sides. making two panels instead of one is also going to work a bit better for functionality. of course, Colt would've had to get a special masonry drill bit to drill into that brick work, and special anchors to put in there. so it would've been a slightly more expensive and technical job had he done these things.
That's really cool that you could hear the difference immediately though! very cool. I was curious what sound material you were going to put in there.
As someone that just started basic filming in my studio space that has two full size windows, i totally understand why it's more important for video than audio! luckily i already had some home made curtains. Just trying to get the level of lighting coming in the windows to stay the same on my cheap camera's was completely a wash. looked like someone was standing outside my window strobing a helicopter searchlight!
love your videos man.
I have kind of a similar situation, but two smaller windows right behind my desk. Probably going to do something very similar to this! Good video!
Removable inside rod: shower curtain rod. :) They generally stay by pressure pushing out on the walls and don't need much (or any) mounting hardware. Might want some if the curtains are super heavy, but shower curtain rods can hold a surprising amount of weight.
Dude you couldn’t have timed this video any better. I’m literally at the end of a studio build and I have a huge window almost exactly like yours set up and was thinking hmm I wonder what the best way to do this is. Seriously love your energy and content. Can’t wait to follow along with your journey as I continue along mine 🔥🙌💛much love, ya boy kobi.
Awesome! I’m so glad it helped! Appreciate the kind words and you following along!
Check out Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios - he does windows & glass in a big way and hasn't done him too bad ruclips.net/video/nZObMvBZjKw/видео.html
@@colinmcskeane4703 awesome I'll be sure to check it out, thanks Colin, hopefully it all goes well haha :)
You could double up, ask your mother in law to sew another blanket & then use curtain tie hooks on each side, so you can have balance. by opening the bottom of the blanket curtain and let light in, but also be able to unhook them from the side & block most of the light out as well.
Cool idea about the packing blanket sewed into the fabric!
That is exactly what I did for my Bass Traps in my studio. who wants to spend 100's of dollars for bass traps and sound panels. I took 4 heavy duty moving blankets layered them, making sure that there was thin air pockets between the layers sewed theme together then sewed them to the backing of the bass traps then covered them with a thick micro swede material. The room sounds great and I saved a boatload of money. ***Note*** The material you use must have air flow through it. No leather or vinyl products, all you have done then is built another reflective surface.
An added plus to your window location is some of those troublesome, omni-directional low frequencies behind the monitors will walk and wave goodbye right through that glass.
the light spill looks cool tho
Everything you hate about working in the dark is everything I love about it :)
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Really great idea! Are you a kind of visionary? 'Cause yesterday, I started to think in an acoustic treatment for my window (is too close to the street ) and to day a found your video! hahaha ... thank you so much, from Argentina!
Colt, how's this working out for you now in September 2023?
I did a search on RUclips for this exact same thing, and boom!...there's your video. I suppose you can use something similar to drape over a door, right? I'm working out of a "bedroom studio" so nothing fancy. But I'd like to minimize as much sound for the exterior of the house as well as the hallway that leads to this "bedroom studio."
I'm going to make a room divider curtain out of mass loaded vinyl or vinyl shower pan which is extremely heavy, covered with packing blankets and breathable fabric on either side
Jacob Smith isn't that stuff bad for you to breath in
Ju1ce Audio not that I'm aware of. The vinyl shower pan I know is fine. It's just freaking heavy vinyl that seemed odorless
I got one for ya. I took a peice of drywall and cut it a few cm smaller then size of the inner window. wrapped it like a present with a moving blanket and stapled it to drywall. Then took a nicer looking simi plush throw blackent and stretched and stapled it to drywall. then simple put it in window. done, cheap,remoable and effective. On my latest studio I had a window with plantation shutter. same proccess just within the plantation shutter frame, except now i can angle large plantation flaps like diffuser.
¡Notificacion squad! Great content as always. Keep it coming! :D
Appreciate ya!
what about sewing pockets of sand or some other dense material into it?
I don't do any audio recording, but the street noise through my bedroom window is bonkers sometimes. I have industrial sewing machines and lots of heavy duty fabric. I think if I used quilted blankets on the outer layers and had an inner layer with 2"-3" square, sand filled pockets it should kill a lot of the noise, I just don't know how much. Either, it would definitely work as a thermal insulator in winter.
Cool 😎 project 👍 another great video for ideas!
Thanks for watching!!
Colt Capperrune always bro! You do an excellent job on your videos!
Cool project, I would have went with a barn door setup or 2 removable panels.
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I was one of the billions to ask about the windows :) I was actually curious about sound leakage, especially when you’re recording vocals or acoustic instruments...has neighborhood noise ever been an issue for you?
a shower curtain rod might of worked as well cuz can extend or re-track them by turning them.... if didn't want to put brackets or if anyone who is renting and can't screw into the frames.. just a suggestion lol
This guy is some kind of acoustic super nerd lol - rock on dude
I noticed the camera is constantly going in and out of focusing (especially near the end when the curtain is up) due to autofocus being on I guess. Also, I couldn't find any of the links to the fabric he mentions ..anyone?
Damn this popped up at the perfect time, bout to get some curtains made myself! I want them for sound absorption/deadening in my home studio, but I also get some city noise coming in from the window. Do you recommend the same curtain concept for sound proofing as well? Maybe a couple more layers of packing blanket?
Certainly not for soundproofing, I have a video from a few months ago on soundproofing versus acoustic treatment. I would recommend watching that video, should help you out a bunch. Thanks!
@@ColtCapperrune Thanks man!
funny how this video comes out right after I used a green screen... but not for background replacement. XD
i was in a really echoey room and there was no need for background replacement. I instead used the cloth to dampen the reverb, and it really worked well :)
Starts at 2:22
awesome vid man will use can you make a vid on tempo and lining up like guitar bass and drums
I wonder what this curtain weighs. There may be wood frame on that part of the window so hopefully rod will hold well.
Would you say in hindsight you would rather have put a rail up outside the recess to cover the entire aperture?
Best video on the topic!
This may sound like a dumb question, for which I apologise in advance -
but why not just fix a curtain rod above the window and hang curtains from it, that you can draw, like you would in any other room?
A couple reasons honestly. First, there isn’t a flat even surface to mount a traditional curtain rod to because of all the stonework. Secondly, since I am always filming, and always posting photos, etc. I didn’t want curtains to stay up all the time. I wanted something that I could remove and have very little of the curtain system remaining visually. Also, in order for a curtain to have any legitimate acoustic properties it needs to be fairly thick, so it’s not going to slide across the curtain rod very easy like you would open a traditional set of curtains. Hope that helps!
@@ColtCapperrune that's fair enough. To be honest, I would prefer the clean lines you get without curtains.
Always look forward to your videos man! Hope to work with you sometime.
😂 I was literally looking up sound curtains
Since you were mainly concerned with light, did you consider an adaptive window tint?
smart choice for getting that Vitamin D going on.. hey how quickly you kept flashing those curtain holders in front of the camera makes me think you were using the Sony ZV-1 which I just bought that has a cool quick focus feature on it.. wondering if I can guess from just a video focusing lol great vid !
Vitamin D requires sun hitting your skin directly.
But 15 minutes when the sun is not at too severe and angle, per day -- all you need.
Or, take Vitamin D3. Is that the same? I'm not sold, but it is supposed to be absolutely effective enough.
Stil...no substitute for time in the sun ofcourse.
Hi buddy.. Sorry, what’s the name or type of that curtain? And what brand?
Super eerie timing
What lights do you use?
How about the Opals?
I love your vids... even if I don't need what you're selling!
txs good advice
Thanks for watching!
When you said 18 years 2x I thought of Kanye
Lmao me too!
Super cool.
so.. is that just regular curtain! may i have the link to this stuff ?
Dammit, Colt...I was just about to run out and buy me one of them DeWalts when you said it wasn't necessary...what about my GAS, man?
Hahaha
How heavy (pound per dozen) of a moving blanket did you use?
Hey Colt! I'm just starting getting everything together to begin doing voice over work, unfortunately I'm limited to setting up in an open space, being a corner in my basement. I have my interface, mic, boom, reflector and everything setup on my desk near my PC, not ideal, right?
I'm looking into cheap affordable acoustic treatments, and for any advice you can give me to reduce background noise and reverb.
Would you recommend hanging sound dampening curtains around my desk? and would it be necessary to also install some acoustic treatment on the drop ceiling?
If so, could you recommend any curtains that won't break the bank? (budget $400 CAD/ $300 US)
Hey Colt, btw what's that little yellow module on your 500 series to your left? (right in the video). Would be nice to check it out, it intrigued me
Hello hey man, thank you so much for this video! So what is the name of the company you ordered the curtain from again? Thank you!
Great video!Can you give me a piece of advice, please: what XLR microphone you'd recomend for Zoom H4N PRO. I need it for streamin' an' recordin' some podcasts (reasonable price for me +\- 200 €). Mbe Audio-Technica AT875R, akg p220 or rode nt1a?
Hello , could you tell me please what website did you buy ECO pannels which is a safe analogue of rockwwol for your acoustic treatment? Cant find any in the Europe area\\\
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There are tension curtain rods that would be exactly what you were looking for. Maytex 6099 Twist and Shout Smart Drill Tension 7/8" Window Curtain Drapery Rod, Oil Rubbed Bronze, 48-84 Inch, 48-84-Inch www.amazon.com/dp/B00TV26BXI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_guRwFbBPJXY2R
I'd use a shower curtain rod
All the great studios have Windows
this is hilarious. do you need a video to explain putting on warm clothes to go outside? Jeez I guess people just love watching you talk. weird. dope gear and facade wall.
Two words...tension rod
I disagree. Just take a break, step outside, get some light, and breathe fresh air.
It will make your content better if you go straight to the point.
"diy acoustic curtain" goes ahead and let's a professional get it done and at the same time doesn't even show the process what so ever lmao.