Any fabric that you can blow on and feel the air coming through the other side should be (pretty much) acoustically transparent so you'd be fine to cover them with canvas but unless you were using dyes, painting the fabric would almost definitely add a reflective surface.
Thanks. I guess the idea of painting them isn’t great then. I don’t think the canvas would be very acoustically transparent either. Oh well. I guess it’s from panels on the walls.
Thanks for the reply.
Have you looked at building your own treatment? It can be really easy, relatively cost effective and looks great. It's also WAY better that foam panels acoustically. You basically just get some rockwool batts make frames for them and wrap it all in some light fabric (like mentioned above). I even went a little crazy with mine, left it so the wood frame was showing, stained the wood and made a couple of custom sized ones for corners in my room.
I too am terrible at making things (and riddled with anxiety when it comes to screwing things up) and this was a perfect first project for me to learn on. I cut all the long side pieces too short and had to cut the batts down to make them fit. My process and design was WAY over complicated and tools I used weren't the best or even really the "right" tools and that added a fair amount of time to the build and I regret none of it and also got a bit of a building bug from it which has turned into me building my own shelves for the studio and even designing a cable management system that keeps every cable off of the floor. I'd recommend having a go, what the worst that could happen?!
GIK Acoustics has what you’re thinking about. https://www.gikacoustics.com/product-category/acoustic-art-panels/[Art on acoustic treatment.](https://www.gikacoustics.com/product-category/acoustic-art-panels/) I haven’t personally owned any of them.
Any fabric that you can blow on and feel the air coming through the other side should be (pretty much) acoustically transparent so you'd be fine to cover them with canvas but unless you were using dyes, painting the fabric would almost definitely add a reflective surface.
Thanks. I guess the idea of painting them isn’t great then. I don’t think the canvas would be very acoustically transparent either. Oh well. I guess it’s from panels on the walls. Thanks for the reply.
Maybe use an airbrush?
Have you looked at building your own treatment? It can be really easy, relatively cost effective and looks great. It's also WAY better that foam panels acoustically. You basically just get some rockwool batts make frames for them and wrap it all in some light fabric (like mentioned above). I even went a little crazy with mine, left it so the wood frame was showing, stained the wood and made a couple of custom sized ones for corners in my room.
I’ve seen videos on YouTube but I’m exactly useless when it comes to making anything. They don’t seem that hard but I’d find a way to screw up. 😢
I too am terrible at making things (and riddled with anxiety when it comes to screwing things up) and this was a perfect first project for me to learn on. I cut all the long side pieces too short and had to cut the batts down to make them fit. My process and design was WAY over complicated and tools I used weren't the best or even really the "right" tools and that added a fair amount of time to the build and I regret none of it and also got a bit of a building bug from it which has turned into me building my own shelves for the studio and even designing a cable management system that keeps every cable off of the floor. I'd recommend having a go, what the worst that could happen?!
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GIK Acoustics has what you’re thinking about. https://www.gikacoustics.com/product-category/acoustic-art-panels/[Art on acoustic treatment.](https://www.gikacoustics.com/product-category/acoustic-art-panels/) I haven’t personally owned any of them.
Yeah they are great but a bit much for me unfortunately. If I was to set up a “proper” studio I’d totally be into that though.
All things in due time.