$50 DIY vs $450 PRO Acoustical Panels (Worth It?) - Echo & Sound Proofing #Best Education Page #Online Earning

- Hey, what's up?

It's Pat here.

We're in the brand new studio.

Building it out,

and we're trying to reduce the echo in the room.

Now, have you ever seen these little egg crate,

sort of, foam acoustical panels?

They're really thin.

They're flimsy.

They pack really nicely.

But, do they actually work?

How do they stack up against higher-end,

more premium acoustical panels solutions?

Well, we're gonna find out in this video right now.

We're gonna run a test, and then we'll see.

So, here we go.

We're gonna go onto Amazon and show you where we picked

up 48 of these bad boys for about $49.99.

And here's what they look like.

(thud)

Okay.

Apparently there are 48 of those things here.

Just hold on a sec.

So, this is about,

so, this is 12 by 12.

So, its one square foot of surface area,

but, we have 48 here in a four-inch package.

Okay.

Let's open it up and see.

(paper crinkling)

Okay, we got 24 in here,

and 24 in here.

Just let me put one of these down.

All right.

And now it's in another bag, of sorts.

Okay, lets open this one.

Whoa!

(plastic crinkling)

(nervous laugh)

Whoa!

Like that Food Saver commercial.

Ugh, it stinks!

Ugh.

Oof.

Actually, the smell's growing on me.

All right, so let's, uh,

you can see them,

sort of, stacked here like that,

and they're sort of-

you know, the-

the teeth, are sort of against each other,

to save even more space,

so let's just

undo these

(mellow music)

Here are 24 of them.

And, uh,

so this will take some time,

for it to, sort of, grow.

But, um,

(blows air)

We'll do some other stuff while we're waitin'.

And we'll come back when they're ready,

and then, we're gonna actually set 'em up in the room.

The same surface area,

that we have,

we also got hooked up by Audimute.

Thank you, Audimute.

They gave us some professional panels.

We'll describe those in just a minute,

but we're gonna have the same surface area.

We're gonna put the same number of panels on the wall,

to cover the same amount of area, and just see.

Is there a difference?

So, first of all,

we'll put these, and, uh,

so we'll just have to wait for now, I guess.

- [Fake French Accent] One hour later.

(tape rip)

(thud)

- All right, so now that we have let these sit for a while,

they've expanded.

They're about the right size.

We're putting some, sort of,

just carpentry tape on the back to create a little

double sided stickiness.

And then we're gonna put them on cardboard,

that's the same shape as our professional acoustical panels.

And then we'll put them up on the walls,

and it will be easy to stick 'em

and see if they actually help out or not.

(whistling, "I've Been Workin' On the Railroad")

(tape rip)

Life of an entrepreneur, right here.

(peeling tape backing)

Okay, so what we're doing here,

is, we're just creating panels out of these

that are the same size as our professional ones

that we got from Audimute.

So, we're gonna just, uh,

stick them onto here,

and hopefully not get my cord in the way.

Just like that.

We're gonna have the ones next to it,

sort of at a different position, like that.

It's not perfect, but we're making it work.

So there we go.

We'll just keep going.

(foam squishing)

All right, so we finished our first panel, here, and-

Okay, its sticks.

You can see this is actually,

were chairs that we bought.

But anyway, just want to see how this works so far,

and, again, the reason why we're putting it up on cardboard,

not just up against the wall,

is because this

is probably not gonna be a permanent installation.

So, if I get up close here,

you can kinda hear there's a little bit of a difference.

I can hear it already.

So I don't know, what do you think?

Can you hear a difference?

Probably, but I'm not gonna be standing this close

to a panel when I'm recording.

This is about the echo, sort of,

all around the room, right?

So, we're gonna build five more of these.

And then we have six total.

And then we have six total acoustical panels from Audimute.

Before we finish putting the cheap panels together,

I have something special in this box,

that I want to share with you,

which comes from Audimute,

which provides professional sound management solutions.

And our friends over at Audimute

hooked us up with some sound panels,

which we'll be testing against these guys

that we've been building,

and we also need to use the cardboard here as well.

So, I'm gonna open them up and show you what's inside.

(slicing tape)

So, I've used Audimute Sound Solutions before,

in my home office.

But never for a studio like this.

So, I am very familiar with their products,

the quality, and just actually how much

it can help reduce echo in a room.

But, we've never had these specific kinds

of acoustical panels.

We also ordered some ceiling panels,

which we'll just install in a later,

at a later time.

But it will be really interesting

to compare these to the, sort of,

foam ones that we're creating.

(rip)

All right, whip out these guys.

Let me just pull one out here, to see what this is like.

Ooooooooh.

Ahhhhhhh.

Oh, okay, a little bit,

a little bit wobbly,

but that's because

there's a lot of air in here.

So, there's a air gap in here in this particular material.

This absorbs the sound and stops that reflection,

like we talked about earlier.

So, let me just put my head up next to this.

Yeah, you can totally tell it deadens the sound.

And when I do that with these foam ones,

it doesn't actually have the same kind of response.

So, I'm really excited to put these guys up,

and as you can see,

we got it in the nice SPI red color,

which is really cool.

So, we got six of these guys.

This one's a white one.

So we got white and red.

Do you hear that sound difference... this is just back here.

(laughs)

And gray.

(exhales)

So, gray, and so it will kind of be a

nice little color spectrum as we go across the studio here,

so we'll probably do,

what are we gonna do?

Like, three on this side,

three on this side.

We'll do that with the foam ones as well,

and now we have this box that we can use to cut up

and create more panels for the cheapo foams.

So, lets do that now.

Thanks bud.

So, this is my son, K'yone.

He's in the office with me today.

He's out of school for summer,

and he's hanging out.

He loves to do things that I do, and podcasting, right?

We have a podcast,

that's available on iTunes right now called

"All of Your Bees Wax,"

and he's having fun, sort of, seeing what we're up to here.

And he's helping out too, so,

that's really cool.

You having fun, bud?

- Yeah! It's pretty cool.

(foam squishing)

This is for sound proof, right?

- No, actually, good question.

Sound proofing means reducing the amount of sound

that transfers from one room to another.

So, that's another issue besides echo.

This is for echo reduction.

It's a very common thing to get mixed up,

but, sound proofing is like if we want to make sure

the people who walk in the hallways,

like, don't make sound in here,

and also, pretend we were like,

playing guitar in here or something,

we don't want that sound to bother other people.

That's sound proofing.

But this is echo reduction, or, "Acoustics,"

as it's called.

And we're on the final, sixth panel here,

that we're building out of these cheapo foams,

and it will be exciting

to compare against the more professional ones.

Thanks again for your help, bud.

All right, we just finished building the six panels here,

with the cheap foam, and cardboard,

that way we can easily place them on the wall.

We'll talk about placement in just a sec.

But, they are the exact same size, just about.

48 square feet total,

we have six of our Audimute professional panels,

and we have six of these, of the same size.

And so, we're gonna put 'em up.

Now, where we put them up matters, obviously,

we could obviously keep 'em on the ground here,

and my voice travels this way,

and that's not gonna really do anything.

And so, we wanna put 'em up on the walls

ahead of where most of the voice will come from,

and I'm gonna be doing a lot of videos here,

which is why we're gonna

sort of place them evenly across the wall,

three on each side, in this room.

However, I do wanna say that, our podcasting setup here,

is also for a multipurpose, right?

So, this table will actually be turned 90 degrees

for future videos where

we're gonna be doing podcast interviews.

So, it's gonna be really important for us

to also treat this wall as well,

which we're not going to do in this video,

because, usually, you're only going to have one position

for most of your videos or podcasts and things like that.

So, we'll treat that wall a little bit later

with something special that Audimute also sent to us,

I'll reveal that in a little bit.

But, what we're gonna do is,

we're gonna put these up on the walls,

space 'em out, so that our voice,

as it travels across the room,

won't have as much surface area to reflect off of,

and come back into our microphones.

So, let's put 'em up.

We're gonna get some 3M,

sort of, Command, sticky things

so that we don't hurt the walls,

'cuz you know, walls have feelings, too,

and then we'll place the professional ones up there,

and we'll test it.

Here we go.

Okay, so this is a test without

any sound panels on the walls.

(claps three times)

(clucks tongue)

(speaks into microphone) Hey, this is Pat Flynn

from smartpassiveincome.com.

Okay, now, I'm positioned in the desk

that I'm gonna be doing a lot of my podcasting

and live streaming from,

so I wanna get a test here too,

again, with no sound panels on the wall.

(claps three times)

(clucks tongue)

(speaks into microphone) Hey, this is Pat Flynn

from smartpassiveincome.com.

(tape peeling)

Three, two, one.

Looks amazing.

(scoffs)

(foam squishing)

(tape peeling)

What the?

Oh, okay.

All right, so this is the test

using the cheap foam acoustical panels on the wall.

Here we go.

(claps three times)

(clucks tongue)

(speaking into microphone) Hey, this is Pat Flynn

from smartpassiveincome.com.

(claps three times)

(clucks tongue)

(speaking into microphone) Hey, this is Pat Flynn

from smartpassiveincome.com.

(light house music)

Okay, so we got the acoustical panels set up

on the wall, as you can see here,

I think they look pretty nice,

but, we did spend some time measuring them,

and playing around with different color schemes,

anyways, doesn't really matter if they look nice,

how do they sound?

Let's test it, so, here we go.

(claps three times)

(clucks tongue)

(speaking into microphone) Hey, this is Pat Flynn

from smartpassiveincome.com.

All right, and now for the sound test

in the podcasting area.

Here we go.

(claps three times)

(clucks tongue)

(speaking into microphone) Hey, this is Pat Flynn

from smartpassiveincome.com.

All right, so we just finished all the tests,

and let's just have one more listen,

back-to-back-to-back,

and then back-to-back-to-back.

So, here we go, let's listen.

(three claps)

(three claps)

(three claps)

(tongue cluck)

(tongue cluck)

(tongue cluck)

(speaking into microphone) Hey, this is Pat Flynn

from smartpassiveincome.com.

(speaking into microphone) Hey, this is Pat Flynn

from smartpassiveincome.com.

(speaking into microphone) Hey, this is Pat Flynn

from smartpassiveincome.com.

(three claps)

(three claps)

(three claps)

(tongue cluck)

(tongue cluck)

(tongue cluck)

(speaking into microphone) Hey, this is Pat Flynn

from smartpassiveincome.com.

(speaking into microphone) Hey, this is Pat Flynn

from smartpassiveincome.com.

(speaking into microphone) Hey, this is Pat Flynn

from smartpassiveincome.com.

So, I don't know if you heard it,

but the difference to me was as clear as night and day.

From zero acoustical panels to the foam,

the small thin ones,

not that much of a difference.

You could hear a little bit of a difference,

but not too much.

But wow, with these professional,

acoustical panels from Audimute,

definitely the way to go,

especially if you're gonna have a more permanent setup.

So, let's talk pricing really quick before I let you go,

and I'll talk a little bit about what we're doing

with this other side of the room here.

So, the acoustical panels, obviously,

at one dollar per panel,

we had about 48 of them,

so, you're talkin' $50 for a setup like that.

Now, there are a number of people that I know

who have taken those and have done some interesting things,

creating boxes out of wood, and other scraps

to kinda create some air gaps,

and actually have a very similar feel

to what you have here,

but, I know, if you're like me,

you don't have those kinds of skills,

so, it may be worth investing

in a more professional acoustical setup like this.

You don't need to cover the entire room,

as you can tell,

to have a significant difference with reducing that echo,

and the sound bouncing around the room,

and getting back into your microphone.

So, the price per panel, from Audimute,

was about $77.

So, you're thinking about six to have,

maybe in a room of about 150,

170 square feet.

About $450, and that's a pretty wise investment,

especially if you're gonna be doing a lot of

content creation on podcast and or videos.

Okay, now, we do have a video,

if you don't wanna spend any money,

you can still reduce the echo in your room

using household items,

or, if you, perhaps,

are recording from a hotel room or something like that,

on the go while you're traveling,

make sure to check out that video,

it's in the subscription,

or in the card up above,

so that you can get some zero cost options

for reducing echo.

But, like I said,

what are we gonna do with the other side of the room here?

It's completely blank right now,

and there's gonna be a lot of podcast interviewing

going on in person here.

Well, that's where some higher-end products form Audimute

come into play,

which we'll talk about in a later video.

So, make sure you subscribe, 'cuz you don't wanna miss that,

it's something I've never seen before.

So, let me know in the comments section below.

Did you hear a clear difference?

What are your thoughts?

Is the price worth the reduction in echo to you?

Let me know what you think.

Team Flynn, you're amazing.

Thanks so much for joining me

in this transformation of this office here,

at the WeWork in San Diego, California.

You're amazing,

and, Team Flynn for the win.

(punch sound)

Hi, how are you doing?

I don't know why I'm whispering.

(clunk)

But this is really cool because

I have a SwitchPod in the brand new studio,

and I'm gonna pick you up right now,

and I'm gonna put you in my hands

like a nice little buttercup,

and I'm gonna, four, five, six,

seven, eight, nine, ten, 11-

- We're still recording audio.

- Oh, are you? Okay, well, it's okay if you're recording,

'cuz I don't know what I'm saying

I'm just tryin' to mouth some things

that you know that I'm actually movin' and talkin',

pretending like this is real,

'cuz the camera's not even on,

but that's okay.

I like these panels,

we're not showing you the other side,

'cuz it's fallin' down,

but that's okay, we're gonna fix it later

with some double sided tape.

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