To help someone install his home office to support video and audio
conferencing, I've been trying to find acoustic wall panels that would
be easy for a local builder to obtain and fit.

We want to end up with something that looks like an upmarket office, and
I'm thinking of 6 foot vertical or horizontal fabric covered panels on a
wall behind the desk and an adjacent wall.
I don't know why all the online literature seems to me so much gloss and
flash with minimal info about prices, suppliers and so on.

I know of Echophon and believe that Armstrong tiles used to do something
similar, and Amazon seems to sell some American panels, but I'm way out
of date with this. My initial suggestion of heavy curtains and
bookshelves is "not posh enough".

Has anyone done this sort of thing recently or knows of suppliers?
--
Bill

Bill wrote:

To help someone install his home office to support video and audio
conferencing, I've been trying to find acoustic wall panels
Has anyone done this sort of thing recently or knows of suppliers?

If you/he fancies DIYing I've seen some on youtube where they made a
frame from about 1" square timber, stuffed it full of old layers of
towels (bought from a charity shop) I think they used a clean white
towel stretched over the front like a canvas, maybe you could stretch a
print over the frame?

Found it ... https://youtu.be/pABvTWSxOes

On Sun, 5 Mar 2017 16:06:35 +0000, Bill wrote:

To help someone install his home office to support video and audio
conferencing, I've been trying to find acoustic wall panels that would
be easy for a local builder to obtain and fit.

We want to end up with something that looks like an upmarket office, and
I'm thinking of 6 foot vertical or horizontal fabric covered panels on a
wall behind the desk and an adjacent wall.
I don't know why all the online literature seems to me so much gloss and
flash with minimal info about prices, suppliers and so on.

I know of Echophon and believe that Armstrong tiles used to do something
similar, and Amazon seems to sell some American panels, but I'm way out
of date with this. My initial suggestion of heavy curtains and
bookshelves is "not posh enough".

Has anyone done this sort of thing recently or knows of suppliers?

If this is for video-conferencing it doesn't have to be real: do what
the v-bloggers do and create a studio set that gives the appearance of
whatever you want.

Something like this:
http://www.videoflypacks.com/wp-cont...-office-02.jpg
can be as lavish or businesslike as you want.

Something like this:
http://www.theinterviewstudio.com/pi...o-wide-358.gif
can be the conference room overlooking the Houses of Parliament, the
office with a view to the Eiffel Tower, the dock in the County Court
or whatever the mood suggests at the time.

Nick

On Sunday, 5 March 2017 21:42:54 UTC, Nick Odell wrote:
On Sun, 5 Mar 2017 16:06:35 +0000, Bill wrote:

To help someone install his home office to support video and audio
conferencing, I've been trying to find acoustic wall panels that would
be easy for a local builder to obtain and fit.

We want to end up with something that looks like an upmarket office, and
I'm thinking of 6 foot vertical or horizontal fabric covered panels on a
wall behind the desk and an adjacent wall.
I don't know why all the online literature seems to me so much gloss and
flash with minimal info about prices, suppliers and so on.

I know of Echophon and believe that Armstrong tiles used to do something
similar, and Amazon seems to sell some American panels, but I'm way out
of date with this. My initial suggestion of heavy curtains and
bookshelves is "not posh enough".

Has anyone done this sort of thing recently or knows of suppliers?

If this is for video-conferencing it doesn't have to be real: do what
the v-bloggers do and create a studio set that gives the appearance of
whatever you want.

Something like this:
http://www.videoflypacks.com/wp-cont...-office-02.jpg
can be as lavish or businesslike as you want.

Something like this:
http://www.theinterviewstudio.com/pi...o-wide-358.gif
can be the conference room overlooking the Houses of Parliament, the
office with a view to the Eiffel Tower, the dock in the County Court
or whatever the mood suggests at the time.

Nick

Heavy fabric spaced a few cm away from the wall will certainly
cut the reverberation considerably. A decorative rug would be a good
choice.

John

We used to use old fashioned cardboard egg boxes in the 60s, not very, ahem,
trendy, but a curtain in front was fine. Probably be a fire risk today.
Brian

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Bill wrote:

To help someone install his home office to support video and audio
conferencing, I've been trying to find acoustic wall panels
Has anyone done this sort of thing recently or knows of suppliers?

If you/he fancies DIYing I've seen some on youtube where they made a frame
from about 1" square timber, stuffed it full of old layers of towels
(bought from a charity shop) I think they used a clean white towel
stretched over the front like a canvas, maybe you could stretch a print
over the frame?

Found it ... https://youtu.be/pABvTWSxOes

On Sunday, March 5, 2017 at 4:08:01 PM UTC, Bill wrote:
To help someone install his home office to support video and audio
conferencing, I've been trying to find acoustic wall panels that would
be easy for a local builder to obtain and fit.

We want to end up with something that looks like an upmarket office, and
I'm thinking of 6 foot vertical or horizontal fabric covered panels on a
wall behind the desk and an adjacent wall.
I don't know why all the online literature seems to me so much gloss and
flash with minimal info about prices, suppliers and so on.

I know of Echophon and believe that Armstrong tiles used to do something
similar, and Amazon seems to sell some American panels, but I'm way out
of date with this. My initial suggestion of heavy curtains and
bookshelves is "not posh enough".

Has anyone done this sort of thing recently or knows of suppliers?
--
Bill

The correct mic situated at the correct distance from the speaker will solve these prob;ems

On 06/03/17 13:15, fred wrote:
On Sunday, March 5, 2017 at 4:08:01 PM UTC, Bill wrote:
To help someone install his home office to support video and audio
conferencing, I've been trying to find acoustic wall panels that would
be easy for a local builder to obtain and fit.

We want to end up with something that looks like an upmarket office, and
I'm thinking of 6 foot vertical or horizontal fabric covered panels on a
wall behind the desk and an adjacent wall.
I don't know why all the online literature seems to me so much gloss and
flash with minimal info about prices, suppliers and so on.

I know of Echophon and believe that Armstrong tiles used to do something
similar, and Amazon seems to sell some American panels, but I'm way out
of date with this. My initial suggestion of heavy curtains and
bookshelves is "not posh enough".

Has anyone done this sort of thing recently or knows of suppliers?
--
Bill

The correct mic situated at the correct distance from the speaker will solve these prob;ems

Google 'sound absorption panels' at amazon for a huge range. Including
acoustic booths that you can dismantle and store


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that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

Jonathan Swift.

In article ,
Brian Gaff wrote:
We used to use old fashioned cardboard egg boxes in the 60s, not very,
ahem, trendy, but a curtain in front was fine. Probably be a fire risk
today.

And they actually did very little, if anything. Heavy curtains would,
though.

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*I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory*

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

In article ,
Bill wrote:
To help someone install his home office to support video and audio
conferencing, I've been trying to find acoustic wall panels that would
be easy for a local builder to obtain and fit.

We want to end up with something that looks like an upmarket office, and
I'm thinking of 6 foot vertical or horizontal fabric covered panels on a
wall behind the desk and an adjacent wall.
I don't know why all the online literature seems to me so much gloss and
flash with minimal info about prices, suppliers and so on.

I know of Echophon and believe that Armstrong tiles used to do something
similar, and Amazon seems to sell some American panels, but I'm way out
of date with this. My initial suggestion of heavy curtains and
bookshelves is "not posh enough".

Has anyone done this sort of thing recently or knows of suppliers?


Google Helmholtz resonator. They (and variations on the theme) can be
bought ready made and simply wall mounted. They control LF resonances, and
HF ones are easier to deal with.

But if you want a really decent acoustic, probably best to contact a
specialist to design it all for you. It's a bit of a black art. ;-)

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Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

In message , "Dave Plowman (News)"
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Google Helmholtz resonator. They (and variations on the theme) can be
bought ready made and simply wall mounted. They control LF resonances,
and HF ones are easier to deal with.

But if you want a really decent acoustic, probably best to contact a
specialist to design it all for you. It's a bit of a black art. ;-)

I know that it's a black art and that diy solutions are likely to be
variable, which is why I was thinking of ready made wall panelling.

I'm also very familiar with the psychological effects of too much sound
deadening.

I was hoping someone had experience of panels like

https://www.cmacoustics.co.uk/cm486-broadband-absorber

http://gikacoustics.co.uk/product/gi...coustic-panel/

or the (possibly) simpler

https://www.hushacoustics.co.uk/soun...h-absorber-30/

I don't think the audio in the systems will have much bass response, and
he is adamant that it needs to be a working office with just an area for
the conferencing. It's all a bit vague at the moment, but I'm trying to
save him from his taste for plain painted walls, plain ceiling and
uncarpeted floor.

I Googled Helmholtz Resonator, but panicked on seeing masses of square
root signs and a bunch of videos from people in not acoustically
brilliant rooms blowing over bottles.

--
Bill