Minimal Booth

[BobHaymond]

I will need to set up a place/booth to record one instrument; vibes is [are?] the larger. My little reading on studio gets me to believe that the heavy soundproofing that goes on is to keep OUT extraneous sound. Is that correct? If so, it would seem that all I need to do is prevent the instrument sound from bouncing around since I fortunately have a virtually soundless environment. Perhaps some absorbing screens would do it for me.

The absorbing materials that I have seen from vendors has been on the order of $2.60 a square foot and that seems steep to me. Are there less expensive do-it-yourself materials available?

This is not totally about the money. For over a month I have been collecting a DAW, software, mics, preamps[still being built], referbishing instruments. AND I ain't played a song yet!! Somewhere it's got to get real.

Any discussion greatly appreciated.

Bob Haymond
Clemson, SC

[Tom Hicks]

Start tracking in a closet if you have to but get going!
People put up all this sound deadening materials that only get the highs.Get a test tone generator
http://tom.artistcollaboration.com/test.exe
and record a sweep of your room.Use a frequency analyzer like the vst FFT
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homep...t/cplugs11.ZIP
to see the peaks.
Now you can see what you need to do to smooth out the room's responce curve.Do a search on "bass traps".Good luck.

Tom