the more I'm studying how to treat my room the more I just want to use headphones :D

You know my broke ass does? I buy a whole bunch of eye hooks and screw them into the stud all around the top perimeter of the room, and then I string up a clothesline. Then I use clothes pins to hang up a bunch of towels, old blankets, and/or whatever I can find. It works well.

Kyle, I have to give you MASSIVE props for taking such an astronomical leap in your production quality and depth of your content, visible in many of your recent videos, but particularly in this one as well. Writing, animations, sound design and voice quality, everything...👏

Being an uni student in audio engineering and film sound design for the last 5 years I'm still baffled how only you and Jesco Lohan (from AcousticsInsider) can be the only ones on YouTube, who actually take the time to not only glance over, but properly dive deep and visually explain so many scientific aspects of home studio acoustics. Nothing that new really learned from me on this video, but I'm sure it will be extremely helpful for many starting out! (maybe a bit more emphasis on the critical importance of choosing the listening position in the room regarding the modal behavior would've been the icing on the cake for this comprehensive guide, but I can't complain too much 😉).

Keep up the high quality!

maybe acoustic treatment on an absolute budget and using old cloths. like; towel. thick blanket or stuff

listen. i don’t know how you know that i was presently communicating with the potential maker of my treatment… but this video comes in at a KEY moment in the decision making process.

and the key points about varying thickness which i was trying to make a point about to a colleague saved a lot of arguing 👍🏾

My studio is covered in a mix of GIK stuff and DIY stuff. I have to say, the GIK stuff is amazing. Theyre pretty affordable compared to other products, and the look and quality are impeccable. If you have the money, their stuff is totally worth it.

5:51 I'm so glad that you mention this. Straight outta Toole's book! :D
Really good video overall, I'm glad to see such an accurate and informative video among all the nonesense on youtube.
The only thing I'd change would be to normalize the waterfall graph. Sure, resonances show up in the magnitude response, but this can be fixed with EQ, so I think it's more interesting to look at temporal anomalies (decay) isolated from the magnitude effects.
I'm hoping to see a segment on MMM and room EQ in the follow-up video. Your room EQ can only be as good as your measurements are, and single point sweeps certainly aren't it ;-)

I've been waiting on this subject from your channel!

Hmmmm... I have added additional rugs or even a sound blanket under my mic so its good to know this info.

nice ! i can see you're improving as an engineer and that benefit for all of us. This channel will hit the million !

I freaking love this channel

diyourselfperks made a good video about this: folded towels on wooden planks in the corners are a great and cheap audio-treatment option. It works much better than the most commonly used tiles by people who have a bigger YouTube channel.

That decay (waterfall) is bloody impressive - it’s pretty much the same as the kh120’s you’re running!

So far I only do voice over for YouTube videos in my “studio”, so a lot of this is overkill, but it’s really interesting to learn about and it gives me a better understanding of what actually would be beneficial for me compared to what’s more aligned with someone working with more complex audio work. Thank you so much for the easy to follow tutorials for a complete noob to the audio world!

Love the rail idea

I’m definitely doing that

That is a terrific explanation of absorption thickness and its relationship to wave length. I really like the idea of an air gap behind the panels also. Thank you

Thanks for your channel!

was just wondering this like yesterday lol, thank you

acoustic treatment is good for when you want to add synthetic reverb, but if you have a big ol' room with tons of reverb, just record in it! But don't mix in that room! Mix in a dead room.

Your waterfall graph is so clean down to 200 hz. Really impressive.