HELP: Wall Treatment for Music/Home Theater

Hi guys!

my bedroom 10x12 was recently painted and what I would like to do now is to put up some "acoustic foam" to kill the flutter echos and to "treat" the room...is there anything I can use to stick the foam to the walls so that when I eventually take down the foam it won't rip the paint off of the walls??

I think the normal trick is to "hang" the foam panels on the wall like pictures rather than glueing them like panelling. Having a bit of air space behind the foam doesn't hurt, in fact IIRC it extends the damping effect to include lower frequencies.

While we are on this subject, are there any good DIY methods any of you have used instead of paying big bucks for mfg treatments. I would think there has to be some items one could pick up at home depot or whatever and save some change.

Randy:
I don't have links available, but I remember reading articles that basically involved making frames of 1x2s and packing them with fiberglas or cotton batting, then covering the whole thing with decor-friendly fabric. These are, of course, the type of treatment designed for reflections as opposed to bass traps!

Here's a couple of links for DIY accoustic panels....

DIY Panels 1

DIY Panels 2

DIY Panels 3

Uh oh, I dig the DIY panels but I dunno about the DIY styrofoam cup speaker wire elevating system...

Forgive a question from an audio ignorant but what do they think elevating the speaker cables is supposed to accomplish?

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Forgive a question from an audio ignorant but what do they think elevating the speaker cables is supposed to accomplish?

I don't even remember what the pseudo-technical reason is supposed to be, but the wire elevating ranks very high on the snake oil meter. Check around the internet for prices on these cable elevators.

Side story--I used to sell sporting goods. We carried some products for yoga. One such product was a yoga block--a brick sized piece of styrofoam that sold for 10 dollars. For one, mind you, not a pair. Plain old styrofoam. I wish I invented it.

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While we are on this subject, are there any good DIY methods any of you have used instead of paying big bucks for mfg treatments. I would think there has to be some items one could pick up at home depot or whatever and save some change.

I used the recipe on audioholics.com . Really straight forward to make. You just need to find somewhere to buy the rock wool or rigid fiberglass. I went to sensiblesoundsolutions.com and got a really good price. Pick up some 2x4 wood, cotton batting to cover the fiberglass, and fabric (I used speaker fabric from partsexpress.com)and you are 3/4 of the way there. You can get everything except the wood and fiberglass at Wal-Mart or Target. One panel took me a 1/2 hour to make and I am pretty useless around tools. I built 8 traps and spent less than $250 in total.