Acoustic Room Treatments

I have a small cube dedicated room, 11.5 x 11.5 x 10.  I have an 8x10 carpet.  GIK is great, but their suggestions for my room were basically to cover the entire room and ceiling with panels at $$$$.  I was so confused about what to do that I have done nothing.  Even within GIK's suggestions, there were many choices of bass traps, diffusion, etc. such that I became paralyzed.  I am going to give them a call and may they can guide me on some basics like the bass traps, and first point reflections.  What I would really like is someone local (in Miami) who will just tell me the specific products that I need for starters and work from there!  Any suggestions?

I used the following to acoustically treat my room:  I purchased the housecurve app and ran a sweep of my room using my iphone (yes, better mics will get better results, but as a starter this was very good.). I captured the results as well as a photograph of my room and loaded them into ChatGPT.  ChatGPT analyzed the results and identified opportunities to improve and offered suggestions.  I followed the suggestions (as well as my ears) moving speakers, adjusting sitting position, toe-in,  placing acoustic treatment on first reflection areas as well as bass traps and an overhead soundcloud.  Every time I made an adjustment, I would re-sweep the room and load it into ChatGPT.  At least for me, the results were significant.  It was a great place to start.

Moto_man I get you, I had the same experience when first contacting GIK, but then I made an appointment to talk to them on the phone, the guy who’d made recommendations and that was very helpful.  I started out with a few panels (bass traps as they call them) for the front wall and front to side wall corners, with great effect, over time I added first reflection point dampening and a rear wall panel with a diffusion face on it…..my room is very small, has lots of hard wall surfaces and this ha created a very good listening space. 

Curious on this thread b/c I will soon be moving to a new house with hopefully a dedicated listening room. What budget/investment are you guys talking about to treat a room, with and without consultants? Thanks

@cooperdude6 if you're handy with woodworking, you can make the Bass panels yourself following existing material from Warp Academy on YouTube and you can make the wrapping very aesthetic enough for your listening space's vibe

"Higher density rock wool can be effective in depths from very thin to about 12"/30cm.  Beyond that it becomes increasingly reflective.

If you only have a minimal amount of room volume that you're comfortable losing, you can get some really good results by building modules that are 5.5" thick with ComfortBatt R22 rockwool batts inside of 1" x 6" x 8' framing lumber, floor to ceiling, and then air gapping them by 1" from the wall.  You get a pressure effect from the small amount of air in the gap that shifts the absorption lower than a non-gapped module.  Floor to ceiling is essential here.  If you're doing smaller modules, that are, say 2' x 4' with the same material, you'd need a larger air gap and a completely sealed enclosure behind the panel to shift the absorption lower.  Plus, with the smaller modules, your wall/ceiling/floor seams are left untreated.  Floor to ceiling all the way."

this video should help - https://youtu.be/mxFPKJeu5dk?si=QUJoVWADuzfGH141&t=405

and this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl2YqHURMB0

and - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1mO5p0W384

and - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lk8xoSHF7g

The above is what taught me all the woodworking I know now lol but I had the help of a carpenter friend. As for the measurements and DSP, did myself cos "self taught engineer who is an audio science nerd :)"