Best place to get acoustic sound panels?

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I built 6 4x2 panels for 1/3 of the cost myself. A 4x2 panel was better than $50 a piece IRRC from ATSacoustics.com. I think I spent no more than $120 on materials and built 6 of them. You build amps. I'm sure you can handle a tape measure, a chop saw, wood glue, nail gun and a staple gun to construct them. I myself couldnt see paying those cost vs building them myself.

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I built 6 4x2 panels for 1/3 of the cost myself. A 4x2 panel was better than $50 a piece IRRC from ATSacoustics.com. I think I spent no more than $120 on materials and built 6 of them. You build amps. I'm sure you can handle a tape measure, a chop saw, wood glue, nail gun and a staple gun to construct them. I myself couldnt see paying those cost vs building them myself.

Check my thread on it

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=115927
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Very cool! Looks like they turned out great. Thanks for the info.
 
Hit me up if you have any questions. There so easy to build.
 
I built quite a few of these in very little time. You'll save a ton of money doing it yourself. And you'll be able to make whatever custom sizes you want, for little extra cost. Most of my panels are 2'x4'x8" thick.

materials I used :

1. owens corning 703 equivalent 2'x4' insulation panels from ATS acoustics. The thickness doesn't really matter because I stacked them to get 8" thick panels. These were the cheapest I found at the time. total cost (with shipping) was about $5 per inch of thickness.
2. cheap 1"x2" lengths of some sort of wood from Home depot. I cut these up to build simple 2'x4' frames. (around $3 or so per 8' length)
3. the cheapest/easiest material I found for covering the panels were cheap bed sheets from WalMart. (something like $12 for a King Size set of sheets that covered 2 or so panels)
4. some 2" wood screws ($5 or so for a box)
5. some 1/4" staples ($5 or so for a box)
6. 2 screw-in eye loops for mounting the tops of the panel ($5 or so for a box)
7. cheap Home Depot bookshelf brackets that I used underneath the panels when mounting and spacing them about 6" from the wall. ($3 or so for a set)
8. small spool of steel wire (around $5)

My build process was very simple and quick.

1. use the 1"x2" wood to build a 2'x4'x1" thick simple rectangular frame. I screwed the frame together.
2. cover the opening of the frame with material from the bed sheet...like putting glass into a window frame, but using part of the bed sheet material. Simply staple the material in place.
3. stacked 8" of OC703 on the frame.
4. wrapped the bed sheet over the top of the insulation and pulled it somewhat tightly to the back of the frame. I then stapled the bed sheet to the back of the frame. The tension from the bed sheet is all that is holding the insulation against the frame.

The wood frame I used for my panels is just a simple, flat skeleton that supports (from the back) the insulation from bending and buckling. I didn't want to lose precious insulation surface area by building a box type frame that would cover too much of the insulation material. By doing it this way, the edges of my panel add/maintain about 50% more surface area for absorption.

I mounted my panels by setting them on cheap, stamped steel bookshelf brackets and sliding a 2" screw through the bottom of the bookshelf bracket into the panel. This let me space the panels about 6" from the wall. I screwed in 2 eye loops to the back/top of the panels and used a piece of wire to tie the top of the panel to eye loops that I also installed in the wall behind the panel.
 
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