OK, if I am off on a tangent with my construction idea, please let me know.
Here goes...
So last summer I went to the summer NAMM in Nashville and afterwards went to the Tracking Room. Well they have a really nice studio!!! I walked into the main room and saw that they have about five smaller rooms off of the main room. So I go into the first room which was very tall and lined with rock. There was some impressive sounds to be heard in there bleeding into that first room through the open door and bouncing around. Depending on where you stood you could find low frequency nulls or buildups, and some incredible sounding reverb! There was a sweet spot just inside the door and of course there was a microphone there to record all that reverb goodness.
So now I'm working on my studio and am nearing completion of the control room, and am considering what to do with my tracking room. It is a lot smaller than what I would like, but it is what I got. It is approximately 10'x12' with a slanted shed roof/ceiling. I am planning to put a drum set in the room, and use overheads and a couple of close mics for recording. The room is too small for room mics.
Unless... I use a small closet that is attached to the room and open it up to a space below the floor joists and build an echo chamber like area below the tracking room floor. This would not exactly be a true echo chamber, but rather a fancy place to put a room mic to try and get some of that one-of-a-kind mojo like they did at Motown, or hopefully some Bonham like drum sounds. My thoughts are to build a small room below the floor joists open to the tracking rood to catch some reverb to be used as a room mic. Open the closet door and expose the room below the floor joists to incoming sounds from the tracking room. You could experiment with gobo in front of the closet door, and varying the location in the room below the floor joists, etc.
So in my preliminary study of echo chambers I found the recommendation of using Sabine Golden ratio of 2:3:5. Other recommendations include a trapezoid shape, rounding off the corners, plastering the walls and painting with high gloss paint to increase reflectivity.
I need to do something with the space below the floor joists regardless of the "echo chamber space" idea. I was planning on filling the space full of sand like what is recommended in Rod Gervais's book. However, after visiting another studio, this idea has popped into my head and I want a second opinion on whether this might actually work and be really cool or is it just a kooky idea?
Ryan Earnhardt (of Creative Sound Labs) does all kinds of interesting things with his room to get different drum sounds. (See his youtube channel if you already haven't)
So what do you think? Go for it and see if I can get some unique sounds or just fill it in with sand and proceed.
Here goes...
So last summer I went to the summer NAMM in Nashville and afterwards went to the Tracking Room. Well they have a really nice studio!!! I walked into the main room and saw that they have about five smaller rooms off of the main room. So I go into the first room which was very tall and lined with rock. There was some impressive sounds to be heard in there bleeding into that first room through the open door and bouncing around. Depending on where you stood you could find low frequency nulls or buildups, and some incredible sounding reverb! There was a sweet spot just inside the door and of course there was a microphone there to record all that reverb goodness.
So now I'm working on my studio and am nearing completion of the control room, and am considering what to do with my tracking room. It is a lot smaller than what I would like, but it is what I got. It is approximately 10'x12' with a slanted shed roof/ceiling. I am planning to put a drum set in the room, and use overheads and a couple of close mics for recording. The room is too small for room mics.
Unless... I use a small closet that is attached to the room and open it up to a space below the floor joists and build an echo chamber like area below the tracking room floor. This would not exactly be a true echo chamber, but rather a fancy place to put a room mic to try and get some of that one-of-a-kind mojo like they did at Motown, or hopefully some Bonham like drum sounds. My thoughts are to build a small room below the floor joists open to the tracking rood to catch some reverb to be used as a room mic. Open the closet door and expose the room below the floor joists to incoming sounds from the tracking room. You could experiment with gobo in front of the closet door, and varying the location in the room below the floor joists, etc.
So in my preliminary study of echo chambers I found the recommendation of using Sabine Golden ratio of 2:3:5. Other recommendations include a trapezoid shape, rounding off the corners, plastering the walls and painting with high gloss paint to increase reflectivity.
I need to do something with the space below the floor joists regardless of the "echo chamber space" idea. I was planning on filling the space full of sand like what is recommended in Rod Gervais's book. However, after visiting another studio, this idea has popped into my head and I want a second opinion on whether this might actually work and be really cool or is it just a kooky idea?
Ryan Earnhardt (of Creative Sound Labs) does all kinds of interesting things with his room to get different drum sounds. (See his youtube channel if you already haven't)
So what do you think? Go for it and see if I can get some unique sounds or just fill it in with sand and proceed.