I'm currently in the process of changing my spare bedroom into a music room/studio. I'm not sure whether to get a laminate floor or a carpet. I would prefer laminate due to a better look, feel and the ease of cleaning. But I'm not sure whether in a small room it might make things a bit too 'boomy' sound-wise. Would getting a shallow-pile carpet be better in terms of deadening/softening the sound a bit better?
I'll have a digital piano, my guitars/bass, and will occasionally have my band members coming over for some little rehearsals and songwriting sessions.
Any thoughts in what would be best, or even if it would make any discernable difference?
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Laminate floor will make the room sound brighter and thus sound louder, carpet will absorb more highs.
Maybe a big rug ?
Seemed to work fine. Except in the summer when we'd have the doors open.
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Since I removed the carpet and went back to bare floorboards it's now my favourite place to record acoustic instruments. It's obviously a touch livelier than before but it no longer has any weirdly attenuated highs.
Of course the best thing most of us do with our home studios to improve damping is to fill them with junk.
When I moved back from Singapore I wanted to get back to work as quickly as possible so set up in my old workshop area before doing a remodel that would have seen some proper acoustic design going into the room.
I will still do that but when I have time- for now it is unideal in that it has plaster walls, no air gap, carpet and is pretty much oblong.
I have about 12 bass traps in the room in various places.
Sonarworks sorts out a room mode around 100hz and it sounds fine in there for now.
Sometime this year or next I'll remodel it- bass traps off the ceiling and non-parallel walls with an air gap.
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