Mount Corner Bass Traps and Acoustic Foam with NO WALL DAMAGE 

What do you think of this kind of video? Probably not going to go out of my way to make videos like these, but should I shoot em real quick when the opportunity arises? Or should I stop it right now? Let me know!

I'm looking forward to Lyle's Foam Adventure

came for the knowledge, stayed for the humor. Thank you.

Pro tip: you can put the painters tape with the non sticking side onto the double sided tape bofore putting it on the wall and then just put the entire thing onto the wall.

Man I'm sure glad dad taught me this, I don't think I woulda figured it out on my own. It makes me so happy to know dad cares about me

This is EXACTLY what I did for my foam. It works perfectly and is great if you need something less permanent. You could even just stick the painter's tape to the double sided tape and then slap it on the wall. Works like a charm

I'm surprised at how genuinely helpful most of your advice is, I kinda expected this channel to be a bit of a goof-around and make music type of deal, but the videos so far have been really great for people like me who are very interested in voiceover/voiceacting, music production, video editing and the like. Thanks Uncle Lyle!

I'm glad we're getting some foam content. I started foaming at the mouth when you showed us the foam in your studio tour and this wasn't quite enough to satisfy my foam cravings. Keep up the great work Lyle. Oh also this video kind of blew my mind and made me realize I could probably even use this method for other stuff too. Legitimately good advice.

Command strips also works, expensive but works

thanks dad, this is a life lesson i can actually use

This is good advice for hanging anything on the walls that tape can hold.

looks neat, tho careful with painter's tape stuck a long time : the glue turns to goop and leaves a sticky mess

I don't like pins, or glues. This is the best way to get this job done.

Painter’s tape!!! Thnx a lot 4 sharing!

Im looking into moving into my first home. My girlfriend is a musician and we want to have a room where we have sound foam mounted. This video will save me from a repaint.

I'm FOAMing at the mouth with excitement for more FOAM content

"if you are viewing this I'm assuming you are renting" How accurate!! 😅😅

Genuinely useful information but the commentary is fantastic

This is the best tutorial I’ve see in months

Masking tape! Brilliant! I've already put four tiny holes in my wall with drywall hooks and the foam just hangs off and looks ugly while tearing up the foam. Will do this right away!

Oh frick, never thought of using t-pins for the normal foam. Finally something easier. Big McThankies!

This is the best video about cubes on the internet

As long as the footage is at a good enough resolution and the audio quality stays top tier, these kinds of videos would be good.

Wow, I seriously did not think of this. There goes my paint.

Love the idea. And thanks for the laughs lol.

You're a genius. Thanks.

Well done 👏🏼 👍🏼 Good demo and info Thank you from England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

As somebody who attached his foam to hardboard and then attached that to the wall with command strips I wish I'd known this trick before hand. Cool video in general, would love a follow up that's more of a general overview of like how to treat a room

Super helpful, I’ve been resigned to a closet for decent sound

Hearing Lyle say "boop" was not something I ever expected in life

actually very informative

Pro-tip for taking off adhesive without damage! Take a blow-drying and use it on the adhesive, and warm the *shit* outta it. Hot adhesive loses all of its stickiness and comes off super easily. I do this all the time on video games that have stickers on the labels to avoid damage.

Wow, I can’t believe I’ve had these materials for so long and never once thought to do this.

I watched this video when you first posted it and I have returned as I shall soon be renting an apartment and, while I won't be setting up a studio, I do intend to do some soundproofing simply because I often play games and watch television late at night and the place has a fairly strict sound policy.

Great vid Lyle! Looking forward to more vids on this channel man!

I love this idea! Using two different types of tape together is genius!

thanks for the tip! gonna hang my corner traps up today and this is exactly what i was looking for

Enjoyed the video thank you sir for the idea works great for the Bass Traps i put up.

Awesome idea, about to start foaming my home office where I deliver online training courses from, thanks mate.

from the people that brought you The Orb "The CUBE" (good call with the painters tape tip!)

Super handy, thanks

This is really helpful brah

I always love to hear about your foamy exploits Lyle. Keep up the great work.

Command Strips worked well for me.

personally (for the corner blocks), I cut and hot glued coroplast to the top of the foam. Then, I used 2 command strips to stick the coroplast to the wall. I then put T pins on the bottom on an angle. My foam has been up for about a year now. My issue with your method is that when you go to take the double-sided tape off the foam (when you move), you're gonna take some of the foam with it. With my method (stolen from EXOcontralto), you just replace the command strips on the coroplast.

This is a great tutorial, I live with my dad so I don't really like the idea of damaging the walls in general so this is great advice. Really it seems like pretty good advice for anything lightweight that needs to be mounted.

This is super helpful, definitely saving the video when I build a studio! Thanks Lyle🤘

Damn, what the hell. I started a shitty Metal channel a year ago, then discovered OneyPlays a few months ago, then tried using Pro RU-vid channels to learn but found a lot of it goes over my head, then discovered that Lyle is making audio content for dumbasses like me. It's like it's.. fate. Keep it up dude, love the content so far.

This is legitimately amazing advice and I wouldn't have considered doing it like this. Thanks Lyle :)

Lile techular tippers. Need that audio magic

Scary hovering cubes :0

I've had no idea how much I needed this. Thank you very much Mr. Goodish.

Fun tip when playing with tape on anything, use an old PLASTIC giftcard to really press the tape against the surface to ensure no air bubbles and a strong bond. Plastic gift cards also make great scrapers, for pots, stickers on glass, whatever.

NICE. I'm making a poor man's table top vocal isolation station out of cardboard. I plan on adhering 11"x11" cardboard tiles on the back of each acoustic tile, but then putting velcro on the back of the cardboard tile so the tiles are modular. Hope that makes enough sense. My question is, what do you recommend using to attach the cardboard "tiles" to the back of the foam acoustic tiles?

thank you for the foam tutorial father, where would i be if i did not have PROPER FOAM OPERATION INSTRUCTIONS

Oh heck, thats actually brilliant! Thanks for this advice, Ive been needing to know how to do this exact thing!

You just reminded me to turn on notifications

This is great

Sicc, good thing i didnt gorrila glue my wall quite yet.

Really helped me a lot, thanks for the advice Lyle :)

This was so useful and entertaining! I'd love more like these!

i like your noodlin videos, they inspire me to play more often. uhh do you have any suggestions on websites that sell music stuff orr websites that have good music sheets, i use songsterr and gtab and check reverb once in a while i only recently heard of reverb though. maybe like suggested techniques or useful ways to hammer in muscle memory?

Thanks for the advice I really appreciate it!

For a solid bond with the foam and the tape, try scoring the area on the foam with a razor or roughing up the area with a piece of sandpaper (dremel tool would be solid). My experience with this method is for prop building with foam and not for sound so I don't know if it would affect the properties of the foam for studio purposes or not.

The glue in painter's tape will perish given enough time (maybe a year or two). You will find that it either rips the paint off your wall in the end, or it just falls off. I would recommend making a wood panel, attaching the foam to it and then standing it up in the room if you're a renter or something. You can make it look relatively decorative.

Pro tip I learned in design class: stick the painters tape on your arm first to weaken the adhesive. Otherwise it'll peel some paint off when you take it out.

That is wildly useful. Thanks Dad does this mean your home from the cigarette store and will stay for a while?

I'm not bothering with painters tape is it's my studio. Paint is new but these panels will be there a very long time. My problem is the tape not sticking to the bass traps. Fibreboard it works fine with just tape. I used gorilla double side carpet tape on the foam but I spray foamed it to the tape stays on the foam Then spray glued the tape onto the foam

Show us how you mix your voiceover audio please for the love of god give us the goods

Honestly I could use a video running down effects - reverb, treble, etc. Just got an interface but have no idea how to use it make the cool rock noises

So good old lylebert has graduated from orbs to cubes? How the times have turned

I was going to comment about the double sided velcro that my theater teacher put around her own studio but you mentioned the cons and now I'm laughing thinking about how shes going to see her room wall's just whiter away

I wouldn't even care if it wasn't music related, I'd totally be down to watch a bunch of videos where Lyle just talks you through some basic life skills. Imagine a video where Lyle teaches you how to hang a picture frame evenly or change a flat tire or budgeting your money on a trip to the grocery store.

Hey you ever plan to have oney on this channel? From what I’ve seen from his Twitter and weird second channel he seems to be a big audio nerd too

1:53 Important. Make sure to go "boop" or you will make it harder on yourself.

Make a playlist. Title it "weird reality." 11 songs total. Leave it as unlisted on your RU-vid channel. Leave a link(s) hidden somewhere on the web. The songs don't have to fit a theme, but keep it varied. I'm counting on you. You got this.

You posted this a year ago, are the foam blocks still up?

I am here exclusively for the foam

does those work in absorbing 60-150hz ?

People who are afraid to miss these videos suffer from serious FOAMO

Nifty!

Here's one for textured walls with regular foam panels and just generally if you want it to look pretty clean, I bought these cheap ass "wood grain" panels from home depot and added picture frame hooks on them so they can be easily removed and hung wherever I want, it's definitely a hell of a lot less work than t-pins, does less damage, and you can get the panels in whateveer the fuck size you want or just get a huge one and cut it up yourself. I have some wood that I'm going to cut up and build like a box frame for them (just because I want them to look nicer and sit completely flush to the wall, but different mounting hardware would also do it) but that's just extra work if you're looking for something simple and easy. It cost me like 20 dollars for four 2' x 4' panels + mounting hardware, normally just command stripping would work but like I said the wall's textured so this shit will not stick. I decided this is pretty sweet because I can just pull the whole panel down without doing any damage to the wall or foam and move them wherever tf I want. I imagine you can do the same with bass traps, but that's a lot of extra steps when this method would work on most textured walls, too, but might be way more effort than its worth to do a bunch of individual pieces of foam.

When you're making music, how do you know when a sound is good enough? Like how do decide if this note sounds better than that note?

my personal experience the double tape always fail on the foam side rather than the wall side.

Lyle's Foam Acoustic emporium, Coming to a Channel Near you!

I see we've upgraded from Orb to Cube.

Pleeeeeaze do a guitar video of some sort idc what it is I just love guitars lol

How is this holding up?

Fuck this is genius

how much does that cube weigh?

H E G O T F O A M

Oh my god actually thank you, my acoustic foam is acting up and keeps on falling down

future beehive

Lyle the one eye gamer???

this is fuckin awesome

i have enough guile to travel a mile for lyle,niall, and kyle

dont you need a gap?

When will dad post more audio-themed content?

How about egg cartons??

Foam does not do much for bass traps at all. You need something with mass to absorb the waves and won't resonate on the wall. Fiberglass is like the minimum you should use for bass traps.