Setup
We made our tests in a 18m² [21.53 yd²] room sparsely furnished with a table and a couch. The room was equipped with 4 HOFA Frames on each wall and 8 Frames on the ceiling. During the recordings we changed the room acoustics through the use of HOFA Absorbers and Diffusors. The microphone (AKG C 414 / spherical characteristic), the distance between microphone and instrument remained constant.
Result
All in all decisively is, of course, personal taste. And every room sound has unequivocal strengths and weaknesses.
For the “professional” speaker/voice-over artist there can’t be enough absorption, nevertheless a tambourine develops its potential sound at best with diffusors and/or bare walls. With low frequency sounds, the mixture of different acoustic modules shows its superiority. The acoustic guitar behaves similar whereas the naturalness of the sound increases with the number of the diffusors.
The test shows which acoustical possibilities you have in a comparatively small room. In most cases, with home-recordings, you have just one room available for recording and mixing. When using the HOFA Absorbers, Diffusors and Frames you can attune the room to the respective situation.
Furthermore the versatility of the HOFA acoustic modules still allows having a creative leeway for experimenting with sound.