Introduction: How to Acoustically Tune Your House

House is often a place for you to come from the office and relax. The time you spend in your house is very important and noise can disrupt it. You can change the way noise and sound circulates your house through the use of acoustic panels. You can install noise absorbing panels and noise canceling windows. If installed properly you should feel the difference in your house’s environment.

Here is an instructable which should help you in recreate your house into a peaceful fortress.

Step 1: Check Room for Reflections

Clap your hands. If you hear a fluttery echo, then you definitely have an issue with reflections. You should know that a room with poor reflections will result in poor acoustic sound quality.

Step 2: Remove Hard Surfaces

Reflections are caused by bouncing sound waves, and sound waves bounce off of hard surfaces. Avoid surfaces made of wood, concrete, glass, or leather. Soft materials, like cloth, will dissipate sounds and reduce reflections.

Step 3: Install Dampening Baffles

The corners of a room tend to amplify the effects of low frequency reverberation, so place dampening baffles in the corners of your room for effective tuning.

Step 4: Install a Resonator

Resonators are effective at reducing reverberations because they capture and trap specific sound frequencies. However, because resonators are only effective at trapping specific frequencies, you'll need to do some tuning every time your room composition changes.

Step 5: Install Absorbers

There are companies devoted to acoustic tuning that create products specifically designed to improve acoustics in any room. Absorbers are engineered to improve acoustics as much as possible while remaining easy to use and install, so they are perfect for effective tuning.

You will feel much better in your house, after installing the new sound proofing equipment.