So I've got a couple of moveable pannels and I don't really know any creative ways to utilize them. They are not anything special, just some wedge foam panneling on a stand. I'm just wondering if there are any tricks of the trade as far as putting these to use. I'm thinking more along the lines of recording an accoustic guitar or a guitar amp. The quality of the recording that I've gotten in this particular application is not bad, it's just that I'm looking for some new techniques to mess around with. I'm about to start working on a demo for this guy who says he got somewhat of a John Meyer style of playing. He's giving me a lot of room as far as the type of sound he wants in the end so I figure what better time to experiment with some new technique. Thanks guys.

I believe if ur sittin on ur stool with a guitar, you probably want a panel directly in front of you and one facing the string tuning knobs...im basing that on a theory i have in my mind, its best to trouble shoot everything... i've been troublshooting for weeks with my booth between using rug and auralex foam... good luck tho

What's the room that you're working in like? I guess what I'm asking is, why are you compelled to use foam on a stand? (IME foam won't do much beyond soak up a little bit of high end tizz/flutter).

I wasn't necessarily "compelled" to use it, it's just that I thought that it might be a convenient way to customize my sound, so to spaek. I figured that accoustic foam would affect the accoustics in some fashion. I'm in no way an expert on the topic so please let me know if I'm wrong in this assumtion. Why we're on the topic of foam, can someone explain to me why egg crate foam wont work for accoustic treatment, while some, seemingly, similar pyramid shaped Auralex foam will. I did a little test, treating the exact same room with both materials and tested the same mic, with the same settings, in each setup. Between the two tests, I just didn't hear that much of a difference.

Given the same material the shape in which the foam was fashioned won't make much difference in it's performance. In fact the sculpting of the foam lessens it's absorbtion. At some points the foam is only a half inch thick. The flat panels like the Auralex Sonoflats work better actually. So, eggcrate shape Vs. wedge or pyramid doesn't matter much. The more sculpting the less it handles lower frequencies.
Actually some foam gobo panels can do some good things for you and are more than just very high end frequency absorbers. Especially when you're talking an acoustic guitar. The foam will cover quite a broader range of the instrument, down to at least 400 hz. I'd employ them if the room you're in is either very reflective/reverby and you're picking up some boxy qualities of it's smallness, or if you need to minimize some other sound leaking onto your acoustic mic(s)...like a hard drive whine. I have some Auralex mounted to 2x4 plywood sheets on adjustable round base mic stands that I'll place for these purposes. That way I can also create some non parallel surfaces around the instrument, reflecting sound away.