TAKING THE BARK OUT OF REVERB WITH wood SCRAPS

For the past few years, numerous have ended up being utilized to having online meetings in their homes. areas like kitchen area tables, couches, spare bedrooms, as well as hammocks in the lawn have all ended up being “offices”. As you can imagine, numerous of these areas aren’t well understood for their acoustic qualities. [Zac] built a noise diffusion art piece out of scrap pieces of wood to assist his office noise much better when recording.

Reverb is triggered by noise bouncing off hard, flat surfaces like drywall. These reflections are chosen up by the microphone as well as lead to a visible decrease in perceived noise quality. There are typically two methods to kill reverb in a space: diffusion as well as absorption. Diffusion is the method that [Zac] is going for, with thousands of faces at different angles as well as locations, it breaks up the severe reflections into millions of small reflections. Absorption is typically accomplished with foam as well as other normally soft substances.

[Zac] occurred to have a big stack of offcuts as well as additional material from past projects of different wood species, making it simple to make a visually fascinating piece. He utilized a table saw to rip them to a consistent width as well as a drum sander decreased them all to the exact same depth. Next, the long sticks were cut with a miter saw into 5 different lengths, leaving him with thousands of bit pieces of wood. The difficult part began when he had to glue a number of thousand pieces to a plywood backer board with CA glue. Sanding, completing with poly, as well as a french cleat made the three pieces prepared to hang on the wall.

Overall, the impact is stunning. While we’d like much more difficult data on the improvement, it definitely does noise much better anecdotally. If you’re thinking about much more woodworking, take a look into making an inlay without a CNC. video after the break.