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I've finally done something about the annoying echo in this room if you recall my original studio tour video when I moved back to the University of Louisiana where I am at currently and check that video out right here by the way I was bombarded with echoes from every which direction in this room it was clearly not designed for content creators I threw in carpet in a bunch of furniture but the echo still prevailed many of you suggested that I do it the old fashion DIY way and basically layer towels and frames and while that would certainly be effective it wouldn't have the portability I require being that I'm constantly on the move and on top of that a towel frame would weigh considerably more than foam I can't nail anything to these walls because this apartment is being rented so foam it was and at that very moment almost perfect timing actually arrow zoom reached out to the studio arrow zoom offers a great variety of panels for any style room and any content creator you can choose between pyramid hemispherical egg-crate striped or beveled tiles most of which come in either 25 or 50 centimeter lengths and widths the particular dimensions of the ones I'm using are 50 by 50 centimeters and 5 centimeters thick for this application the thicker the better and I opted for the pyramid design because it offers more surface area for which to absorb sound and that's kind of the point here I would say though that under most circumstances it's just going to come down to preference what you think will look good on camera on top of air assumes great design selection you also have the freedom of choosing your foam panel colors and as you can see black and white all the way from me what a dope Ryne white obviously complements Walter White and the black kind of fills in the gaps I've got a bit of a checkered board theme going on right now but I actually don't mind it and of course you can go with any color combo you'd like or just one color though I recommend you divvy it up a bit the foam panels themselves from a quality control standpoint are exactly what I expected them to be thick flexible and light again I want to emphasize the fact that foam panels are not the best solution for dampening sounds it's just the most ideal solution for someone like myself these required zero maintenance zero prep save the mounting tape and are very easy to store and relocate perfect for me for added benefits you can purchase arrow zooms based wrap kit to absorb even more of that unwanted feedback particularly the lows and if you have a very sensitive microphone like I do can't you can't see it it's the blue Yeti nothing new but if you have something like that the base trap kits going to come in very handy actually plan on obtaining that next so on to mounting I didn't realize this but most of these kits actually include mounting strips then little pieces of 3m tape that do the job I purchase 3m scotch tape which I still recommend for peace of mind as they're thicker and stronger one roll was enough for 12 panels and 5 pieces on each originally I plan to use only four cuts for each panel but the middle was always kind of slightly bulging adding that fifth strip into the middle corrected the minor issue now in terms of layout what you place where kind of depends on your room I spaced each individual tile out originally with about three inches in between and found that it didn't dampen the sound as much as placing large chunks of them next to each other did fix mint a bit until you find your ideal sound the good thing is 3m tape is safely removable just ensure that you're pulling the tape up from the wall and not the foam up from the tape that wouldn't really be cool so here's what it sounded like recording with the camera's microphone when I first moved into the studio if you saw my last video about the aukey keyboard then you've already kind of seen this whole set up but I wanted to show you in a first-person kind of perspective what's going on with the new setup in the new room the new apartment and here's what it sounds like now with the foam panels installed okay this is an audio test with the foam up in the studio big difference like I said I can just hearing myself talk in this room it doesn't sound like it's this small and doesn't sound like it's lined with lead paint which is just not good in general health-wise but it is so much better in here and the echo is minimal you may even be able to tell the difference just from listening to me here the blue ad does a great job at suppressing background noise especially in cardioid mode but even so I still to compress and tweak audio levels after the fact I'm doing the same thing right now in this video but I can very clearly discern between the two the audio before the panel still had a slight echo and I know that those of you with high quality headphones could definitely tell at this point I'm being held back by my microphone more than anything else but now even just hearing myself talk sounds completely different in this closed off room reverb is minimal lows or crisp and my voice stops exactly when I want it to stop something I wasn't accustomed to before be sure to check out arrow zooms website linked in this video's description build your own kit and give them a shot cheap knockoffs from Amazon a thinner lighter and overall less reliable I would know I purchased a cheap set of red and black acoustic panels from Amazon before immediately returning them for these and the difference is night and day if you liked this video be sure to give it a thumbs up give it a thumbs down if you looking good opposite and subscribe for more content like this I have a cool review involving the new g.skill peripherals well not new but they are relatively new the gschool gaming keyboard that well will be linked in that video description and then also the gaming mouse to accompany at very nice complements they complement each other very nicely so that's coming up as well as 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