GLASS

[smellyfuzz]

I saw a great pic of a vox booth... looked like it was mostly glass.

Anybody know what kind of glass it would be??

Where to get it???

How does it get installed???

[John Sayers]

Can you show us the picture?
if you can't post it send it to me
Cheers
John

[smellyfuzz]

HERE IS THE PIC JOHN.

Notice the mic behind the glass.

http://www.musicrecording.com/stills/jpgs/mission2.jpg

[ola]

I'd guess thick sheets with a completely airtight cavity in between. Different thickness on the two sheets could probably help against resonance as well. If you're going for something like this, make sure you get hold of "safety glass" or whatever it may be called. You know the stuff that shatters into little cubes like a windshield rather than turning into a million knives if it breaks.

/Ola

[Brian Grey]

Originally posted by smellyfuzz
I saw a great pic of a vox booth... looked like it was mostly glass.

Anybody know what kind of glass it would be??

Where to get it???

How does it get installed???

Yeah smelly guy... smellyfuzz whatever...

What kind of glass would it be? Where do you get it? How would you install it? These are all questions I have answers to.

When I buy my glass I'm going to an auto glass specialist in Madison, Wisconsin (where I live). They're called Klein Dickert Glass. Since it's glass for automobiles it is shatter glass. I have two windows in my studio. A 6' X 3' control room-to-live room window, and another 3'X3' window for the vocal booth-to-live room window. From the control room you can see the inside the vocal booth. Check out mine and John's studio site for pictures of my studio. Anyway... For the actual peices of glass... I've gotten quotes and fine tuned what I'm going to get based upon cost and weight of the glass. A peice of 3/4" thick glass, 6'x3' in dimention, weighs about 200 pounds! In kilograms (if you don't know pounds) that's about 90KG, someone tell me if I'm wrong there. And that peice of glass will cost something around $300 dollars, I think it was more but I don't have the quote here with me. My original idea was that I'd get a peice of that and then a 1/2" thick peice, but because that peice costs so much and it's SO expensive I decided I'm going to get a 1/2" and a 3/8" peice. And do the same for the vocal booth window. You absolutely need two peices of different thicknesses. If they're both the same they're going to also have the same resonent frequency and you can see where this is leading.... So that answers where to get it and what kind of glass it is. Look in the phone book and look for auto glass places in your town, chances are, they can get you glass.

How do you install it? Well, you'll have to do a great deal of visualizing, just bare with me. Picture a window sill. You walk up to this sill (no glass yet) and you put your hand on the sill, your fingers are at the back of the sill and your palm is more twords the front of the sill. Where your fingers are, at the back of the sill, you put a peice of wood all the way around the inside of the sill, bottom, top and sides. This peice of wood can just be a 1"x1" peice of wood, and long enough to go along each length of the sill. Glue and screw that in place. Put weather strip tape all along the front of that to seal it when you butt the glass against it. When you get the glass ready, have a couple strong guys put it in place. You put the bottom in first, making sure that peice of 1"x1" peice of wood is stopping the glass, and when you have the bottom of the glass butted against the peice of wood bring the top into place. You'll have to hold the glass there until you get the 1"x1" peices of wood on the outside of the glass. Once you have that done the glass is secured.

Could you follow that at all? If not I can explain more if you want.

As for the bowl of fruit... you're on your own.

Later,
-Brian

[John Sayers]

Yeah smelly fuzz it's just a standard studio window. One pane of glass is attached to the control room wall frame and the other is attched to the vocal booth wall frame. The glass sheets are angled to stop internal resonances and the sheets would be different thicknesses. We used 8mm and 10mm glass in our sliding doors which has a similar effect. That much glass, as Brian said , is expensive. The glass for our studio cost around $2500.00





It's all described in my site at:
http://www.lis.net.au/~johnsay/Acous...Acoustics3.htm

cheers
John

[Brian Grey]

Keep in mind that John had a LOT of glass in his studio. The glass for my studio will probably only cost us $850. Haha... only. Yeah. When you build a recording studio, suddenly spending $1000 here and there is nothing. And then you ask yourself, "what happened to the guy who used to be anal about buying the cheaper bread...", and then you realize that man is gone now and nothing is sacred. Build a recording studio, sell your soul, they go hand in hand practically. hehe.

[smellyfuzz]

Thanks for the input guys.

This was one of those questions one has
that thougt whould have a simple and
low monetary cost answers.

Can't wait until my record hits number 1 so I can
afford it all!

Peace

[Brian Grey]

Originally posted by smellyfuzz
Thanks for the input guys.

This was one of those questions one has
that thougt whould have a simple and
low monetary cost answers.

Can't wait until my record hits number 1 so I can
afford it all!

Peace

I think we're all waiting for that...

[John Sayers]

smellyfuzz if your record hits No 1 you'll go and use someone elses flash studio. For the moment those windows aren't hard. Buy two second hand windows and just mount one on one of the walls and the other on the second wall. DONE. you can rubber mount them with old condoms if that's all you've got
cheers
john