As you can imagine running a studio is very expensive and takes time to make changes. I have had proposals for sound dampening the acoustics of the studio space on my desk since before the paint dried on the walls. However with time and money being an issue it never happened.
Well today the budget has been approved and the materials have been ordered. Which is a great thing! We will continue to try additional techniques till the materials arrive but the audio will get better in the future.
If you are interested, we are using duct liner to cover our ceiling which from our research is the primary reason we are having most of the echo. It is a nice 1 inch thick fiber material with a plastic backing for mounting. With a noise reduction coefficient of .75 the echo should disappear for the most part. A NRC of 0 means full reflection while a 1 means full absorption. So a NRC of .75 with a sweet spot above 1KHz of .99 makes it a great cost effective solution for echo reduction.
