I'm curious to see what others think on this subject. I have an room in my
basement that I use just for the band equipment and recording equipment.
It's about 12'x20'. I'm planning on taking a section to the right side of
the door that measures about 4.5'x12' and walling it off for my engineering
booth. I would want to put a door in one end of it. Presumably, I would
want to put a Plexyglass window in the middle. I'm thinking either 1/2" or
3/4" thick. I figured the wall would be framed standard: 2x4's and
drywall. Should I perhaps fill those walls with an insulator, verses lining
them with Soundproof foam/tile?
I'm thinking that I will put in a shelf/work area directly in front of the
Plexiglass window. I'll have a 20" monitor just to my left, and the
Computer keyboard right in front of me. The digital mixer for recording
could be on my left. My soon-to-arrive Roland DS-90a powered monitors will
be mounted on the wall and aimed down toward me on the left and right. My
rack with the computer and 1/4" patch bay will be on the far end of the
room. On that note, I could even position my engineering seat closer to
that and set the mixer on the shelf of my rack, which would put it on my
right. The door for coming in and out of this room would be to the left of
the engineering seat.
I would probably have to purchase a short (if possilble) XLR snake, so that
I could feed the cables in the engineering booth to termination box (mail
plugs) perhaps hanging on the far end of the wall on the outside of the
engineering booth. Then I would patch everything in and out of the
engineering booth through standard XLR cables within the Band area.
This is all I have so far. I would like to start this project perhaps late
winter or early spring. Any ideas are welcome. I'm trying to keep the
costs reasonable, yet provide myself a nicely isolated area from the band,
so that noise levels out there don't mess with what I hear inside the booth.
If I keep this up, I'm going to have to find a way to make money with all of
this stuff!
Tom Kemp
basement that I use just for the band equipment and recording equipment.
It's about 12'x20'. I'm planning on taking a section to the right side of
the door that measures about 4.5'x12' and walling it off for my engineering
booth. I would want to put a door in one end of it. Presumably, I would
want to put a Plexyglass window in the middle. I'm thinking either 1/2" or
3/4" thick. I figured the wall would be framed standard: 2x4's and
drywall. Should I perhaps fill those walls with an insulator, verses lining
them with Soundproof foam/tile?
I'm thinking that I will put in a shelf/work area directly in front of the
Plexiglass window. I'll have a 20" monitor just to my left, and the
Computer keyboard right in front of me. The digital mixer for recording
could be on my left. My soon-to-arrive Roland DS-90a powered monitors will
be mounted on the wall and aimed down toward me on the left and right. My
rack with the computer and 1/4" patch bay will be on the far end of the
room. On that note, I could even position my engineering seat closer to
that and set the mixer on the shelf of my rack, which would put it on my
right. The door for coming in and out of this room would be to the left of
the engineering seat.
I would probably have to purchase a short (if possilble) XLR snake, so that
I could feed the cables in the engineering booth to termination box (mail
plugs) perhaps hanging on the far end of the wall on the outside of the
engineering booth. Then I would patch everything in and out of the
engineering booth through standard XLR cables within the Band area.
This is all I have so far. I would like to start this project perhaps late
winter or early spring. Any ideas are welcome. I'm trying to keep the
costs reasonable, yet provide myself a nicely isolated area from the band,
so that noise levels out there don't mess with what I hear inside the booth.
If I keep this up, I'm going to have to find a way to make money with all of
this stuff!
Tom Kemp