Sound Absorbers (Ditmas Park, Brooklyn)

If you’re interested in these, you probably already know that they are NOT “soundproofing.” Soundproofing (i.e. construction measures to resolve your neighbors’ noise complaints, or to keep their incessant Zoom aerobics classes, loud TV, barking dogs, etc. out of your space) involves serious building.

The items posted here are damping devices for making a room less echoic (so, like, turning a small room into a decent-sounding podcasting studio or vocal booth).

One of the items pictured is no longer available. Here is a list of the rest:

Two burlap-wrapped wood frames housing a 2-foot by 4-foot by 2-inch-thick Auralex foam absorber.

Two open wood frames housing similar Auralex foam

Two two-foot square sheets of 1⁄8-inch plywood with same-size Auralex foam absorbers affixed to them with silicone caulk (this method of adhesion is not as strong as Auralex Tubetak Pro, but it holds, and it makes removing the foam much less of a hassle)

An empty wood frame for mounting 2-foot-wide by 2-inch-thick Auralex foam absorbers to the wall or ceiling

Three loose, 2-foot by 2-foot by 2-inch-thick Auralex absorbers

One more 2-foot by 2-foot by 2-inch Auralex absorber in two pieces (cut to fill the empty wood frame neatly)

Two loose 4-foot by 2-foot by 2-inch Auralex foam absorbers

Three additional absorbers made by affixing 2-inch by 2-inch Auralex corner fills to 1⁄8-inch plywood with silicone caulk

NOTE:
Most or all of the foam was, at some point or another, Tubetaked into place, as can be seen by the paint patterns on the back. It was all, however, carefully removed with an emphasis on preserving the foam. The foam is not in mint condition. Some of it looks near-new on the front side, and some of it looks so-so, but it is all intact and works like new for its intended purpose.