Baby HexaTile 12" Hexagon Acoustic Studio Foam Tile Pack

Advanced Acoustics 12" x 10" Baby HexaTile Acoustic Studio Foam Tile Pack

What's In The Box?

Contained in one box of tiles are 22 individual hexagon tiles.  Each acoustic tile is sized 12" (300mm) by 11" (260mm) and they have a peak thickness of 2 ¹/₈ (55mm).  One box of tiles will cover an area of 14.3sqft (1.26sqm).  The tiles are precision CNC cut and on average will absorb 95% of the sound waves.  The colour of these studio foam tiles is dark grey.

What Are The Benefits?

The Baby HexaTile is the shrunken down version of our very popular HexaTile Acoustic Tiles. Who says acoustic tiles have to be square?  By installing small clusters of these hexagon shaped sound absorbing acoustic tiles in a random orientation around the room at first reflection points or at other key areas you will increase acoustic clarity and remove unwanted distortion.  These acoustic studio foam tiles work hard at controlling mid to high frequencies to help remove echo and control reverberation.  There are so many different layouts you can create with these acoustic tiles that the possibilities really are endless.  Care is taken in optimising size, profile, foam cell structure and foam density to present a studio foam product that offers high visual and acoustic value.  Durability is high on our list of priorities too, we manufacture a foam that won't crumble and turn to dust and won't change colour as soon as you've mounted them to the wall or ceiling. The bottom line is that the Baby HexaTile Acoustic Studio Foam Tiles will assist both you and your room in working to it's full potential.

Where Can I Use Them?

There are a wide range of applications for our acoustic products including:

• High End Professional Studios
• Home Studios
• Rehearsal Rooms
• Home Cinemas
• Dedicated Listening Rooms
• Public Buildings
• Professional and Home Offices
• Server Rooms
• And more

How Much Acoustic Treatment Should I Use?

This is a very difficult subject to address. This is because every room is different. There are a lot of factors to take into consideration. As a generalization most rooms will need between 25% and 75% of coverage. This is only for the walls and ceiling. Most people forget when treating a room that the ceiling is just as important when it comes to treating a room as the walls are.

Here is a brief overview of suggested quantities of acoustic treatment:

• Control Rooms for rock, pop, rap, hip-hop, R&B, country, techno, MIDI music, etc. usually benefit from 50% to 75% coverage and mostly absorption. Bass Trapping is also an important part of acoustic treatment for this type of room.
• Control Rooms for jazz, art (classical), choral, acoustic, world and other forms of ensemble music usually benefit from 35% to 50% coverage.
• Mixing rooms usually call for quite a dead area around the mixing desk itself from 50% to 85%. Around the rest of the room it needs a little absorption between 20% and 40% along with some diffusion.
• “Live Rooms” will vary a lot. Some well-designed live rooms can get by with 20% coverage (or even less!). Most fall into the 25% to 50% range. The most successful Live Rooms usually have some degree of variability. This is done so that a studio is not limited to a certain number of styles of music. By making the room adjustable it gives the studio a high ability to accommodate different styles of music.
• Isolation Booths usually call for quite a bit of absorption – 75% or more. If the booth is to be used for very tight vocal booth then near 100% absorption may be necessary.
• Home theatres and dedicated listening rooms do require quite a large area of absorbing foam on the walls. This is mixed with some diffusion on the ceiling also.

Almost never will 100% absorption be needed and neither is it suggested. The room, no matter what it is going to be used for will still need some ‘liveliness’ in it. If 100% absorption is used the room will feel very close, tight and very very un-natural. The room could come to feel quite claustrophobic and extremely difficult to work in. By leaving a percentage of the area of the walls bare the exposed part can be reflective thus helping to stop your recordings or practise sessions from being overbearing. This will have the outcome of much better performances and recording results.

What Are The Technical Details?