- How much can a rug reduce the echo in a room?
As you can see, I'm building out a new podcasting studio
here at the WeWork in San Diego, California,
and it sounds terrible.
I wanna run a couple test and have you and I both hear
We're gonna test sort of a regular carpet,
we're test a shag carpet against zero carpet
which I'll test with this handy 6-H recorder
in just a minute.
But is it actually worth putting rugs down
to help reduce echo in your room?
My prediction is partly based on a bias
because I love shag carpets.
I have them all around my house
and I know that it reduces less.
(laughing)
Just kidding, I don't own any shag carpets,
but I'm expecting that one to work better
just because there's more space inside the sort of fibers
for the sound to get absorbed into.
We'll see, but I wanna show the space a little bit
to show you what we're working with
and the challenges that we have.
All right, so in a previous video I shared
some of the plans for this space.
This is the desk that you might have recognized
that's gonna be my podcasting, my live shooting space
and obviously I don't want echo in that content.
Now, we are a little bit challenged
with this big glass paned window here
and this hallway of course.
You might have windows in your space
that you have to deal with too
so we're gonna deal with that later,
but for now let me walk you over
to the other podcasting space.
We're also gonna be doing some live videos
from here too.
This is where we're gonna do some interviews
and stuff like that which is really exciting,
but let me just give you a quick rundown
of how echo actually happens.
So if I'm recording in a microphone, for example,
yes, sound is going into the mic, it's picking it up,
hopefully we have a great microphone,
but a lot of that sound gets passed over the mic
and around you.
It bounces across the walls and the ceiling and the floor
and it comes back into the microphone later,
which is why you hear that sort of repeated thing
that you just said later on and the sound,
it just doesn't sound very good, especially when it comes
to the higher level of standard you should have
for your audio in your podcast and your video.
Now, one of the biggest surface areas here in this room
is look down.
It's the floor.
So, yeah, we're gonna see if we can just cover
this whole surface area with carpet
and what kind of difference that makes.
That, with a regular kind of carpet and a shag carpet,
we wanna compare.
We're gonna start with a test with no carpet.
So I'm gonna put the audio recorder on,
we're gonna test some clicks and some claps,
something I'm gonna say, I'm gonna repeat that
throughout the whole process here,
and we'll be able to tell which one actually works better
or if at all.
Okay, so let's start with test number one
with zero carpet whatsoever in this room.
So we're gonna switch to the audio, the zoom right now.
Now you should be able to hear the bassline audio
for what we're testing and it should sound
even more echoey because I have a gain turned up
and it's sort of capturing the ambia sound in the room
in general, so here's what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna do three claps, do a click with my mouth
'cause I can do that, then I'm gonna actually bring
the microphone up to my mouth and just say
a little something and I will repeat that
throughout the whole process, so here we go.
(clapping)
(clicking)
Hey, this is Pat Flynn from SmartPassiveIncome.com.
All right, back to the other mic now.
That's a good baseline.
Well, let's put carpet number one in
and then we'll test them against each other,
so here we go.
(upbeat music)
So we just placed a 10 foot circular rug
right underneath me.
It doesn't cover the entire space,
but already I can tell there's some sound differences.
We're gonna do the official test in just a moment.
Well, let's switch to the H-6 as you'll be able to hear now.
(clapping)
(clicking)
Hey, this is Pat Flynn from SmartPassiveIncome.com.
(clapping)
(clapping)
(clicking)
(clicking)
Hey, this is Pat Flynn from SmartPassiveIncome.com.
Hey, this is Pat Flynn from SmartPassiveIncome.com.
So as you probably heard,
there's a little bit of a difference, which is nice.
It just shows you that you don't need to go all out
with covering your entire hardwood floor with carpets
or buying the most extravagant, nicest-looking rugs
in order to help reduce the sound.
As you can see, this is just a 10 foot circle
that's right underneath me right now
and you can get them at a very discounted price
at thrift stores or discount stores and things like that,
even online like at Overstock.com for a pretty cheap price.
So we heard a little bit of a difference
with, again, a 10 foot wide circular rug.
What happens if you cover the entire thing
and have a little bit thicker material like shag?
That's what we're gonna actually install right now.
(upbeat music)
All right, now we have the shag carpet installed.
It's a little bit bigger.
It's 10 foot by 14 feet, so it almost extends
all the way across the room and it covers
most of the surface area on the floor.
But right now I'm gonna switch to the H-6 recorder
and then we're gonna run the same test and we'll compare.
So here we go.
(clapping)
(clicking)
Hey, this is Pat Flynn from SmartPassiveIncome.com.
(clapping)
(clapping)
(clapping)
(clicking)
(clicking)
(clicking)
Hey, this is Pat Flynn from SmartPassiveIncome.com.
Hey, this is Pat Flynn from SmartPassiveIncome.com.
Hey, this is Pat Flynn from SmartPassiveIncome.com.
All right, so I think it was pretty obviously that when
installing rugs or carpet in a room,
you're gonna reduce the echo a little bit
because it's one whole surface area,
a large one, the floor, that no longer reflects
the sound anymore or absorbs most of it at least.
However, as you can tell, there's still some echo
in the room and we have a lot of work to do
both on the ceiling and the side walls as well,
plus the sort of glass panel behind you too.
So we still got some work to do and we have some options.
So make sure you hit subscribe because in the next video
we're gonna test some DIY things and we're also gonna test
some of those cheap egg crate looking acoustical panels
versus some high-end ones from Audimute
and we're just gonna compare and keep running tests
as we build out the space.
And, yes, you might be looking at the corner here
and seeing that the carpet is a little too long,
that's okay, we'll cut it with a box cutter.
I've cut the rug before.
(dancing)
Cutting the rug, uh uh uh uh.
Okay, no, but seriously, let us know,
did you hear a difference between the different tests?
Let us know in the comment sections below
and we still have some work to do.
As you can tell, there's five different flat surfaces here
with nothing on them that still needs some treatment.
And in the next upcoming videos we're gonna treat them
in different kinds of ways, so make sure you hit subscribe
and now maybe you're more informed to understand
that a carpet can help or a rug can help,
but not all the way.
So, make sure you subscribe.
Looking forward to serving you in the next videos
and Team Flynn, you're amazing.
Team Flynn for the win, cheers.
So this is another test that has me very close
to the carpet.
I just wanted to see what it would sound like.
I think it sounds pretty good.
I think I'm thinking about maybe doing podcasts
like this in the future plus if the interviewee
is boring, I can just kind of fall asleep.
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