Check out the acoustical panels I made...

[purbeast0]

so after having nothing on the walls at all in my basement for over a year i finally got around to doing something about it. i basically followed this thread here to make them.

http://www.avsforum.com/t/1316623/diy-custom-printed-movie-poster-acoustic-panels-cheap

and i think they came out really good! the only thing was that i thought they were large enough to cover the window well, but it was off by like an inch. and the french cleat holding it in place is as close to the edge as it possibly can get, so no way to move it down anymore. there is like 1.25" of a gap as you can see under the redskins panel. but it still looks awesome and better than the window well there.

finally got around to hanging them up tonight and after some careful measurements i think they look fantastic. my wife picked the dirty dancing one, and i picked the saving private ryan one, and we both picked the finding nemo and avatar one. and then the 2 horizontal ones are all me for the sports teams i'm into and she was cool with that.

anyways, here's some pics. they are all 2'x3'. my favorite one is definitely finding nemo, it's just so vibrant and colorful.

 

[alcoholbob]

Nice clean setup. What speakers are you running?

 

[purbeast0]

Nice clean setup. What speakers are you running?

thanks.

the speakers are all JTR.

triple 12's for the mains, triple 8's for the surrounds, and dual captivator 2400's for the subs.

 

[alcoholbob]

The colors of the walls are very sharp...hmm I'm tempted to repaint my media room now xD

 

[purbeast0]

The colors of the walls are very sharp...hmm I'm tempted to repaint my media room now xD

hah thanks. it was all yellow when we bought the house, but i wanted it darker where the image was to be projected which is why it's red only in that area (and on the ceiling). then i put that white piece of wood to kind of "split" the color area. i just wanted something dark over there and was either going to go with a dark blue or red, and that was the color i went with.

one word of advice though if you do repaint - don't use glidden paint. it is terrible and if i had to do it again would DEFINITELY go with benjaim moore paint. but it was like 3 months after owning the house that i did it and was a noob to paints since it was my first house.

 

[s44]

Is it really just coincidence that you ended up with Redskins colors? ;-)

Nice setup.

 

[purbeast0]

Is it really just coincidence that you ended up with Redskins colors? ;-)

Nice setup.

hah ... to be honest it really is. i mean my wife and i both picked out the red color out of a possible 15-20 different shades of red, blue, and a few brown and gray colors. and that yellow was already there. then it was between the black or brown chairs, and brown matched better. and all of the white trim was already there when we bought the house, other than the white divider i added where the paint changes colors.

 

[ManBearPig]

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[gorb]

Very nice work.

 

[purbeast0]

They turned out really well, nice job. Pretty good idea. Do you notice any difference at all with these panels? I feel like you'd have to cover everything in that material to get a decent change, heh.

i finished last night around midnight heh so i didn't get a chance. the main reason i wanted to do it to be honest was for decoration and so it didn't look so plain on the walls, and i figured since they can potentially serve a purpose too, why not.

but i showed my wife the difference they actually do make, by telling her to yell into the wall, then yell into a panel. it's night and day with the sound reflection/absorbtion.

i'm going to watch Rush and Last Vegas tonight, so i'm betting Rush has some nice sound in it so i'll see if i notice anything different.

 

[007ELmO]

hey purbeast, check mine out. I want JTR for my main theater room badly, but I don't think I have the room - I'm very tight on space on the front wall. This one is my 3D room.

 

[purbeast0]

looks nice elmo, i remember seeing that in the console forum at some point.

is that whole red wall basically a big panel? if so that is pretty cool. i have heard though that wooden floors are not good for acoustics because it will reflect a lot.

how big is your main theater room?

 

[007ELmO]

Yes the wooden floor is not sounding perfect, but I needed heated floors because it's cold in the basement - the radiating heat doesn't work well through carpet.

The main theater room is only 15ft wide x 16ft back. I have an area behind the room where I can put the projector, so it's a sim2 projector 17ft back with an anamorphic lens. When I tested it, it produces 14.5ft wide 2.4 image. Hence I need to use an acoustically transparent screen. If the depth of the JTR speakers was low I might be able to get away with it, but with the image size produced I can't bring the screen too far away from the front wall because it will be too large for the seated area.

At that size I must be a minimum of 11ft from foot of seating to screen. What are you running for subwoofers? I think I need to do an infinite baffle array in the front stage area, I don't have room for typical boxed subs either.

I like your setup very much.

 

[purbeast0]

ah i see what you are saying, yeah that is kind of tight if you want the screen to be that big.

i got 2 of these for subs.

http://jtrspeakers.com/home-audio/captivator/

 

[007ELmO]

damn you rich son, that beats my epik conquest any day!

 

[iRONic]

so after having nothing on the walls at all in my basement for over a year i finally got around to doing something about it. i basically followed this thread here to make them.

Sweet!

Your space is coming along great, man. Thanks for posting all the updates.

 

[s44]

but i showed my wife the difference they actually do make, by telling her to yell into the wall, then yell into a panel. it's night and day with the sound reflection/absorbtion.

i'm going to watch Rush and Last Vegas tonight, so i'm betting Rush has some nice sound in it so i'll see if i notice anything different.

Hope you remembered to re-run Audyssey.

 

[purbeast0]

Hope you remembered to re-run Audyssey.

i actually didn't, and i thought about that on saturday too. i watched rush and last vegas friday night, and the sound in rush is amazing. i really have no clue if the panels made any difference at all, but that movie sounded really REALLY good.

sometimes on certain bass frequencies i notice some rattling of things in the ceiling like my lights vibrating against the fixtures, but during this movie i didn't notice that once. my wife never notices things like that but i do. whether it had anything to do with the panels, i have no clue, but it could have just been that movie didn't have any of those bass drops in the frequency that cause the vibrations.

 

[DesiPower]

may i ask what is the screen size and how far is the seating?

 

[purbeast0]

may i ask what is the screen size and how far is the seating?

120".

when watching and reclined, my head is about 13-14 feet away.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I really like that whole setup. Very nice. If I had a basement (not here in FL of course) I'd try setting up something like that. Where I live in FL, unless you can afford a million or more for a house, you don't get any real space for a room like that. We are just overpopulated now and overdeveloped. There's $150k homes selling for $1.5mil because of the property.

Anyway I think what you did with that is great. I like the colors a lot. I think they complement each other somehow. The panels came out great.

 

[ManBearPig]

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[purbeast0]

I really like that whole setup. Very nice. If I had a basement (not here in FL of course) I'd try setting up something like that. Where I live in FL, unless you can afford a million or more for a house, you don't get any real space for a room like that. We are just overpopulated now and overdeveloped. There's $150k homes selling for $1.5mil because of the property.

Anyway I think what you did with that is great. I like the colors a lot. I think they complement each other somehow. The panels came out great.

thanks, and yeah everything just kind of came together. color wise i didn't have much planning going into it at all since i was already stuck with the yellow walls and light carpeting. obviously i could have changed all of that, but that is how the house came. then once my wife and i decided on the red color for the walls/ceiling, i knew i couldn't get black chairs (which i initially wanted), so i went with brown. when we do a bar, i want it to be made of wood and the same shade as the chairs for the most part.

If you don't mind, since this is becoming a purbeast0 man cave worship thread, how much did that all cost you? It did turn out really nice.

it cost a lot hah, but so worth it.

you can take a guess on the total price if you want, but i did get all of the speakers used (about a year old) which saved me thousands. and i also got a deal on the chairs with a closeout deal.

mains - 3 jtr triple 12
surrounds - 2 jtr triple 8
subs - 2 jtr captivator 2400
projector - panasonic ae8000
avr - denon 4311ci
amp - europower ep4000 (powers the subs)
chairs - berkline 12000 leather power recliners
screen - elite screen 120" sableframe

the room was already finished, but i painted it the red color and made those panels and stuff. i also did all the wiring with my buddy who's an electrician so i didn't have to really pay for that (but i gave him like $150 because it took us a day and a half). i'm glad it's came along so well though. we plan on building a wet bar hopefully in the next couple of months down there back in the corner behind the seating area.

 

[richardycc]

nice, where did you get those movie poster fabric prints? no copyright issue?

 

[purbeast0]

i got the images from movieposterdb.com and then made a huge image in photoshop to upload to spoonflower and had them print them out.