How To REDUCE ECHO With DIY Sound Blankets
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How To REDUCE ECHO With DIY Sound Blankets
AMAZON LINKS FOR PRODUCTS MENTIONED IN VIDEO:
➜Grommet kit: https://amzn.to/2LgEVTG
➜Moving Blankets (Pack of 12): https://amzn.to/3q2AU3Y
➜Moving Blanket (Single): https://amzn.to/3nBiJAY
➜Ceiling Hooks (20 pack): https://amzn.to/2XqjuC1
How To REDUCE ECHO With DIY Sound Blankets: In this video, Will teaches you how to reduce the echo in a room with a do it yourself approach by adding grommets to moving blankets and hanging them from the ceiling. It works really well to reduce the echo in a room making your audio sound much better in recordings!
AMAZON LINKS FOR PRODUCTS MENTIONED IN VIDEO:
➜Grommet kit: https://amzn.to/2LgEVTG
➜Moving Blankets (Pack of 12): https://amzn.to/3q2AU3Y
➜Moving Blanket (Single): https://amzn.to/3nBiJAY
➜Ceiling Hooks (20 pack): https://amzn.to/2XqjuC1
GENERATED CAPTIONS:
Welcome back to another video in this one i'm gonna teach you how to reduce the echo in a room. Right now we're on the third floor in Alli's soon to be office. So i'm gonna take a DIY approach to help reduce the echo in this room so that the audio sounds better when she's recording videos.
This is my daughter Emilia; four months old, you can see she's uh drooling pretty heavily, but uh she's gonna be my office assistant today, thank you for rubbing all your saliva all over my shirt! so that's what we're doing today let's jump into the video.
She was actually making a little bit of noise and getting cranky, so we put her to bed. The first thing we're going to do is put up a blanket like this these aren't professional sound blankets you can buy sound blankets they use them on film sets to reduce the echo we're using moving blankets they're a little thinner and they don't come with the grommets installed but on amazon they sell a grommet kit we'll link it down below so you can turn your moving blanket into essentially a professional sound blanket overall it's fairly simple to do we'll start with installing the grommets the grommet tool is really sharp so when you're using a hammer to cut out a little hole into the fabric make sure you put a piece of wood under it so that you're not damaging the surface you're working on find the corner you place it onto the piece of wood the grommet comes with three tools you have the first one that has the sharp bottom that is used to cut out the hole so we'll do that first you just go enough times until it punctures a hole into the fabric and then you have these next two tools one goes at the bottom and then one goes at the top so we'll set that underneath so you grab the two pieces the larger one goes on the bottom and then you feed your hole through and then you put this piece on top and then you grab the other tool and what that does is it folds the edge of the bottom piece around the top one and you then have one grommet complete so i'll spare you from having to watch me do all eight of the other grommets on the two moving blankets let's just jump into the next part of the video now that we have all of the grommets into the other two sound blankets we're gonna start drilling holes into the ceiling in order to put the hooks in and then we'll start to hang the sound blanket so i have my drill here and it's much smaller than the actual thread size of the hook and that's important because we just want to make it enough that we can start to screw the hook into it but we don't want it large enough that the hook falls out so it's just enough for it to grab now i've already figured out the measurements for the sound blankets and this room for where i want to place things let's go over here and drill this and then i've already drilled the other two holes at around 71 inches which makes sense for the sound blanket size that i have next we will grab our hooks and you just screw them up into it.
All right now let's hang the sound blanket into the four hooks that we just put into the ceiling we'll have the black side facing down.
All right so now we have two on the ceiling so how it works for example if you're recording a video and you're talking to the microphone the microphone is going to pick up whatever sounds are in the room when you're speaking the sound of your voice is going to come up hit the sound blanket then there is an air gap between the ceiling that'll help dissipate the audio even more and by that point it's a lot less of an echo than if you had no sound blanket in the room at all so i have four sound panels hung up now on the ceilings and walls of ali's office here on the third floor now this should help quite a bit with absorbing a bit of the echo that was in this room initially if you're at the desk here try to think about the way you have your room set up the way you're going to be filming and work around that setup so that you're not showing the sound blankets in your shot this isn't the best looking solution but it's cheap and it does work pretty well and it's uh pretty easy to do now of course there are many different ways you can reduce the echo in a room and it's very different from soundproofing a room i did another video on soundproofing a room where i used acoustic board and layers of drywall and insulation and that works really well from the sound traveling in and out of the room however it won't decrease the echo in fact having just bare drywall will increase echo because flat surfaces like drywall will do a really great job at bouncing sound back into your microphone and of course that is not a good thing so the solution to that is by simply filling up the room with a lot of stuff such as adding a carpet a couch a chair a desk a whole bunch of cabinets and as much large items as you can that aren't really hard and reflective in terms of the sound bouncing off them so softer materials you could put up large curtains around the window.
Basically the more stuff you have in the room the better and then beyond that you can do the diy approach which is what we did in this video by creating our own sound blankets and hanging them or you can go the professional route of building sound panels or buying sound panels and hanging them on the wall we're actually doing that in our studio we're building about 35 or so sound panels and it's gonna take a while to build them and hang them all in the wall so i'll say that for another video but you get the point there are so many different ways that you can reduce the echo in a room i can hear amelia crying downstairs so i think we'll end the video there i hope you found this helpful it's really easy to treat your room and it's pretty inexpensive i'll leave links in the description for the things we used in this video hit the subscribe button to stay connected with us we have over 70 other filmmaking tutorials on the channel thanks so much for watching and we'll see you next time
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