I’m looking into treating my bedroom home studio and I was wondering if diy panels and bass traps created by gluing hundreds of wine corks together would be a good idea?
The room is 15 by 19 ft with a flat ceiling 9 ft high. There’s a giant 6 ft by 6ft window on one of the long walls.
I secured a deal to collect free used wine corks from the local wineries.
I looked up tables of sound absorption coefficients, but the data is only available for lower thickness 25 mm cork panels. There’s no data available on wine corks close to 2 inches thick.
I used to do some live sound and I think the surface coefficients would sound pingy and bounce a lot of 1K to 4K…almost stucko/gyprock like. I mean there would be some diffusion from the uneven surface but I can’t imagine it would be a good solution or it would be employed in studios. But who knows I mean I’m just guessing, its not like i have a degree in acoustic treatment. Knock yourself out enjoying all that wine though…
…will look, smell and work fine, depending on how u assemble and place them for diffusion purposes and all frequency damping beyond 400 hz…
anything beneath needs mass to work for real…
in a smaller room, corner traps will do the best job for dimming out low frequency reflection and room modes…and any cork constructions won’t do that trick…
while diffusion panels attached to sidewalls (best positioned on earlevel) and free hanging from above (best positioned over ur head) will dry out ur room pretty good, if placed destinctively…
be aware of the fact, all that cork elements need to become shuffled and ruffled surfaces…
if it’s all same size flat, it’s just another refelction panel again…
aaaaaaaaaaand u’ll need lot’s and lot’s of cork for this…
I live in California where wineries depose of hundreds of used wine corks weekly during the summer. I have an agreement with tow wineries to pick up their used corks.
I’m looking to create a big diffuser piece for my back wall.
Does anybody have good ideas for a diy corner bass trap that isn’t tacky looking?
Nailing a scrap wood frame and skinning some rockwool insulation all together sounds like less time, if slightly more expensive for the vastly more effective.
I saved hundreds of wine corks for the kids to use for crafts. They never did. Fortunately, the Ontario government wine/liquor monopoly stores will take back corks for recycling.
