Right! Now I'm considering abandoning the foam, and just building a pvc pipe frame to support my duvets with slightly more elegance! Anyone done anything like this? I've seen a few youtube vids about it, but I often wondered if some kind of unpleasant resonance might somehow build in all that piping...

Even though panel pins would only cause minimal wall damage, I think I'm going to go with Command Strips - especially if I'm likely to find that these panels are less effective than my current duvet mess. On that subject, I know the duvets would be better at absorbing lower frequencies than the acou...

Good advice, thank you!

Yes, I just need to get cracking.

My first experiment is to get the panels up in a way which won't damage the walls.
I'm going for Command Strips.
Anyone tried this method?

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Some good replies here already!
But any more information/advice would be greatly appreciated!

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Hello folks I originally posted this in a different subforum and got some good answers, but it should really be here so I've reposted to get some further perspective. I have a very crude bedroom recording studio set up for recording my audio-description voiceover. At the moment i have duvets messily...

Forgive my ignorance, but where are these 'primary areas'? Where the poster is at the moment? But a larger area? Or are smaller 'spot' areas more effective? (so about the size of the poster there)? The corner areas? The corners from the ground up, or just the 3axis corner areas at the top? Just head...

Thanks very much!
When you say 'so that means the side walls of your alcove, the back wall and possibly the ceiling of the alcove', do you mean complete coverage of those areas?
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Oh no, really?
It's just over 3 inches thick and pretty tough - I know there's better out there but I thought this would be ok.
I'm going to try it anyway.
Good tip about the frame with space behind, but I'm still looking for guidance as to actual placement.
Any thoughts?

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Hello folks I have a very crude bedroom recording studio set up for recording my audio-description voiceover. At the moment i have duvets messily propped up on the walls around my desk and I put pillows on conspicuous desk surfaces to try and improve the room sound. My desk is up against a wall, so ...

Ok, that last problem I mentioned was my fault - I'd forgotten to put an updated VST plugin dll in the Steinberg plugin folder. I've now done that. And I can now open Play Orchestra in Cubase - AND - have mediaplayer playing. ie simultaneous playing of asio and wave sources. This is very good! But t...

I just tried something which threw up interesting results: I opened cubase and imported an mp3 and started it playing, so here was something that would normally come through Mediaplayer, now coming through asio. I then opened media player and started playing an mp3 there. Both played simultaneously!...

Hello again Tex
Are you using Windows 7 64bit?
I've explored all the various sessions - no luck.
I just tried the legendary virgin reinstall - no luck.
I don't know what on earth the problem could be.
Any other suggestions would be incredibly welcome!
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Anyone else got any suggestions on this - I could really do with some help!
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Thanks for the reply flo, and the sympathy! I'm not saying it's like ASIO is monopolised, what I mean is my 1616m - the actual audio interface - is monopolized. Monopolized by either asio or WAVE. If I have my orchestra (asio) open then my 1616m becomes monopolized BY asio - if I have Media player o...

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Hello all Finally built my lovely new PC, and just now installed my Emu 1616m and Cubase 5 and EastWest Play Gold Orchestra in Windows 7 (all 64bit). Now, like many others before me, I'm having a spot of trouble with Patchmix! I've read the splendid SOS article, but alas I remain mystified! I haven'...

Thanks for getting back to me Martin. I've already bought it now though. It was face to face - you're right it would be very ill advised to send cash through the post - I asked for him to scribble out a receipt and that was fine. In a face to face transaction, if the seller prefers cash to cheque (w...

.... Anyone?

Hello folks I got in touch with someone via the Readers Ads section here and will hopefully be buying an audio interface off them. It's a private sale and they want cash - but I just dont like the thought of a transaction like this happening without some record, so would it be reasonable of me for a...