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The Industry Leader in Acoustic Treatment Solutions
For over two decades, GIK Acoustics has been at the forefront of sound innovation, providing acoustic treatment solutions for professionals and enthusiasts alike. Whether you're fine-tuning a world-class recording studio, designing the ultimate home theater, or improving speech intelligibility in an auditorium or office space, we offer the highest-quality treatment solutions to meet your needs. Our mission is to enhance sound clarity and performance across all environments with scientifically backed, performance-driven products. We have the widest product selection in the industry, with free expert advice for your room and circumstances.
Innovative Acoustic Treatment
As a leading acoustic treatment company, GIK Acoustics goes beyond selling panels: we provide expert solutions tailored to your specific needs. Every space is different, which is why we offer a comprehensive selection of acoustic treatments, ensuring you get the right combination of absorption, diffusion, and bass trapping to achieve balanced room acoustics.
Our solutions are designed for small rooms, live rooms, and large-scale venues. Our expert Design Team can help you get the most out of our product range.
Expert Guidance from Industry Professionals
The GIK Design Team are on-staff acoustic experts who take the guesswork out of room treatment. We provide experienced guidance to help you create an effective treatment strategy that considers room size, layout, and the specific acoustic challenges unique to your space. We'll work with you on your treatment strategy and can help with advice on low-frequency accuracy, listening position optimization, and early reflection control. Other custom treatment design strategies are also available. With over 5,000 rooms treated per year, our team delivers proven, high-quality treatment solutions.
Eco-Friendly, Scientifically Engineered Products
With GIK Acoustics' Greensafe initiative, we prioritize sustainability by using ECOSE insulation, recycled materials, and non-toxic fabrics. Our innovative designs, including U.S. patented products, ensure maximum sound control while being safe for indoor air quality. With tens of thousands of installations worldwide, you can enjoy the sound our products deliver without worry.
Take Your Sound to the Next Level with GIK Acoustics
At GIK Acoustics, we believe every space deserves expert-designed sound quality. Whether you’re treating a vocal booth, home theater, or large-scale venue, our team is here to guide you every step of the way. As an industry-leading acoustic treatment company, GIK Acoustics has a more diverse product range; with personalized expert advice and industry-leading innovation, we make achieving professional-grade room acoustics easier than ever with the perfect solution for your room dimensions and circumstances.
Get Free Acoustic ConsulationComprehensive Room Treatment Solutions
Effective room treatment goes beyond just adding panels to the walls—it’s about strategically combining absorption, diffusion, and bass control to achieve the perfect sound balance for your room's dimensions and circumstances. No matter what type of room you are treating, our diverse selection of high-performance solutions ensures you get the best results. Each treatment strategy is crafted to address specific acoustic challenges, from reducing excessive reverb to managing low-frequency buildup, with multiple treatment options for sound absorption and diffusion.
GIK Acoustics offers comprehensive room treatment solutions designed to improve sound clarity across all frequencies. Whether you need absorption panels, bass traps, or diffusion, our product lineup and expert advice has you covered.
Acoustic Panels: Enhancing Clarity and Reducing Echo
Our high-performance absorption panels are engineered to control sound reflections, manage reverberation, and improve speech clarity. They use fiberglass, mineral wool, and sound-absorbing materials for broadband absorption, ideal for offices, restaurants, and lecture halls where clear, natural sound is essential and we don't want excessive listener fatigue in the spaces. With multiple fabric and size options, including printed images on sound-absorbing panels, our acoustic panels integrate seamlessly into any space, providing an elegant blend of function and aesthetics.
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Bass Traps: Controlling Low Frequencies for Balanced Sound
Managing low frequencies is crucial for reducing standing waves, bass buildup, and low frequencies while still also controlling high frequencies. Bass traps are critical in achieving a tight, accurate sound with all music systems, especially systems with subwoofers and ample bass frequencies. Our stackable corner bass traps and mountable thick panel bass traps are designed to reduce standing waves and prevent bass buildup, ensuring clearer, more defined audio. Whether you’re fine-tuning a mixing room, home theater, or high-performance listening space, these solutions provide precise low-end control for an optimal listening environment. Low frequencies are among the hardest to control and need the most space in the room, but our high-performance bass traps effectively manage room modes and standing waves. Choose from corner-mounted, stackable corner bass traps or wall-mounted options to achieve a tight, controlled low end.
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Diffusers: Balanced Liveliness While Controlling Reflections
Sound diffusers help maintain a natural sense of spaciousness and clarity by scattering sound waves evenly rather than absorbing them entirely. Our QRD diffusers, skyline diffusers, and hybrid binary diffusion panels reduce harsh reflections and flutter echo, ensuring a more immersive listening experience with fewer distractions. Whether placed in a listening room, studio, theater, or concert hall, they add depth, texture, and balance to your soundscape. Unlike absorbers, sound diffusers scatter sound waves evenly, preserving room energy while preventing harsh reflections and flutter echo. Our QRD, skyline, and hybrid binary diffusers offer the perfect balance between clarity and spaciousness, improving room sound while maintaining an open acoustic profile.
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Vocal Booths & Gobos: Portable Sound Control
For home studios and professional recording environments in temporary spaces, our freestanding portable vocal booths and gobos improve voice clarity by reducing unwanted reflections, room tone, and noise bleed. Moveable acoustic panels are another fantastic tool in the engineer's toolbox, allowing for more focused, nuanced recordings that can be adjusted for different sounds and creative options. These are often perfect for podcasters, voice-over artists, and musicians working in temporary or rental spaces and can help improve results where full soundproofing solutions or acoustic treatment strategies can't be implemented.
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BASS TRAPS
Full Range
Broadband full range absorption bass traps.
Range Limiter
Add a membrane to your bass trap panels starting at $8.50 per panel, retaining upper frequencies while maximizng low-end absorption.
Scatter Plate
Add a Scatter Plate to your panels starting at $30 per panel and diffuse/scatter high frequency content to keep your room from sounding “dead”.
Recording Magazine
Recording Magazine's Paul Vnuk reviewed our Impression Series in the November 2017 issue.
AV Nirvana
In September, AV Nirvana's Todd Anderson reviewed our 4A Alpha Series Panels.
Positive Feedback
Read Gary Beard's full review of our Impression Series on Positive Feedback.
“We are delighted to work with GIK Acoustics. Their products and expertise have allowed us to set up one of our studios very quickly and with great results. The wide selection of colours, sizes and modularity of their panels were a major factor in our decision to use GIK products.”
“Since installing GIK treatments, the sonic difference has been really astounding.
“The GIK Acoustics Monster Bass Trap was the perfect trap to reduce a resonance that I detected in studio B.”
GIK Acoustics has received glowing reviews for over ten years. See some of them here.
The GIK Difference
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office issued utility patent US 9,091,060 for GIKs unique, proprietary design of its acoustic absorbers. The patent covers the design and construction of GIK Acoustics’ 242 Acoustic Panels, 244 Bass Traps with FlexRange Technology, and Monster Bass Traps with FlexRange Technology.
Expert Design Team & Personalized Acoustic Solutions
Having the wide product range that GIK Acoustics has is meaningless without the expertise in how to use them properly. GIK Acoustics' on-staff Design Team provides tailored guidance to help you create the best treatment strategy for your space. Our Designers have years of experience with room acoustics for various settings, from home studios to large-scale auditoriums, conference rooms to listening rooms, world-class mastering studios to full-service tracking and production facilities. Our designers have expertise in using our absorbers, bass traps, diffusion, and all our products to develop a room treatment strategy that ensures optimal sound quality for your room.
Professional Results for Any Space
From audiophile listening rooms to live performance venues, in recording studios, home theaters, conference rooms, classrooms, auditoriums, and more, GIK Acoustics products improve clarity, detail, and immersion while reducing listener fatigue in any setting.
Trusted by Industry Professionals
With a reputation for excellence, GIK Acoustics is the choice of Grammy-winning producers, sound engineers, and acousticians worldwide. Our panels and bass traps are featured in some of the most prestigious studios and performance spaces globally.
Customizable, Aesthetic Solutions
Great sound doesn’t have to come at the expense of great design. Our custom fabric options, decorative acoustic art panels, and wood-finished options allow you to create a treatment plan that complements your space’s style. Our SlatFusor Series, Alpha Series, and Impression Series give us a variety of natural wood aesthetics combined with high-performance acoustics in a wide range of wall décor and acoustic foam alternatives.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
What is acoustic treatment, and why is it important?
Acoustic treatment refers to the strategic use of absorbers, bass traps, and diffusion to manage room acoustics and improve sound quality by controlling reflections, reducing echo, and balancing frequency response.
What types of acoustic treatment do I need for my space?
The right treatment options depend on the room’s purpose and dimensions. Absorption panels reduce reverberation, bass traps control low frequencies, and diffusers help preserve spaciousness while reducing harsh reflections. Our on-staff Design Team can help you determine the best products & strategies for your situation. Complete our Room Advice Form to get started!
How does GIK Acoustics compare to other acoustic treatment companies?
GIK Acoustics is a highly-regarded industry leader that provides custom room treatment solutions, expert guidance from our design team, and high-quality materials like fiberglass, mineral wool, and ECOSE insulation for superior sound absorption and performance.
Where should I place my acoustic panels and bass traps?
Panel placement will depend entirely on the specific application, which is one reason why guidance from our design team is so valuable. In general, we want to be sure there are enough panels in the room (most of the performance is about the coverage area), and they should be evenly scattered around the room.
In other applications like listening rooms, we'll want other, more specific strategies like using absorption panels at first reflection points, bass traps in corners to manage bass frequencies, and diffusers on back walls to control reflections while maintaining room energy.
Can acoustic treatment improve my home studio or home theater?
Yes! Proper room acoustics ensures accurate sound reproduction for recording studios, home theaters, and live rooms, helping to reduce unwanted noise and enhance clarity. The difference can be hard to describe if you've never listened in a well-treated room, but improving the listening experience in studios, listening rooms, and theaters is the foundation of our business!
Do GIK Acoustics products help with soundproofing?
There is some ambiguity in these terms. In general soundproofing refers to preventing sound from entering or leaving a room, while acoustic treatment refers to improving the sound quality inside a room for music or audio. Our products are designed to solve the latter problem, though they can also sometimes help with the former under some conditions.
How do I get started with my acoustic treatment plan?
The best way to start is by using GIK’s Free Acoustic Advice Form, where our expert Designers provide personalized room treatment solutions based on your needs.
