Drum Room Acoustic Treatment

This blog has been updated to reflect new information in regards to acoustic treatment for recording drums updated on 11 11 19.

Drum room acoustic treatment.

Technically bass traps are not a technique of soundproofing but rather an acoustic treatment. What is the best acoustic treatment for a room used to record drums. It is the standing waves jumbled in your drum room. Today we re going to talk about acoustic treatment for recording drums.

Diffusers to scatter the remaining frequencies. They are placed in the tri corners of your drum room to absorb the bass sounds of your drum set. When recording a drum kit it is the overhead and room mics which capture that sense of space. Bass traps to absorb the low frequencies.

We got a lot of inquiries about people that want to record drums and usually the room is too small. Bass traps are basically low frequency absorbers. For recording drums it is nice to try and capture a sense of space by keeping as much liveness in the room as possible particularly for acoustic styles of music. Acoustic panels to absorb the mid high frequencies.

The 3 elements of acoustic treatment. Now let s learn more about each one 1. Auralex acoustics 1 036 655 views. Now that we ve increased the isolation it s time to treat the surfaces of the room so the decay time is controlled.