Isolation to the next level?

[darkecho]

a sealed cube with a mic and speaker mounted inside.

what do you think for recording?

 

[RAK]

a sealed cube with a mic and speaker mounted inside.

what do you think for recording?

That's how you make an echo chamber. Of course you won't get much in a cube that size

 

[darkecho]

if the inside was lined with foams would it work better?

I want to have a box that i can setup a mic in relation to a speaker, find the sweet spot, and not have to re-setup everything every time i want to record, it would always be ready, and in addition, would be isolated.

would be nice for live performances too...

 

[Adam P]

I believe Randall makes (or made) one, but I don't recall what it was called.

 

[FALKEN]

plenty of people do that. I haven't tried it.

 

[chessrock]

In all likelihood, it would sound like absolute shit.

If I ever got to that point, I would simply go direct and use a Palmer speaker simulator. Wouldn't have to worry about setting up mics ... you'd get near perfect isoloation, and the sound would at least be somewhere between decent and good.

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[darkecho]

ive yet to hear an amp modeler that i would want in my own recordings.

 

[daav]

check out
http://www.homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=224357
THat is pretty much the idea i used for my iso box, which i am pretty happy with, but for isolation, you really need to think box-within-a-box in my opinion.

I doubt if a literal cube shape would be the best for recording. If i were to do mine again, i woud definatly want there to be some length to the box, so there is wall-speaker-mic- 2 or more feet of space behind the mic for absorbtion and breathing room. Someone with a real undersatnding of acoustic physics could probabaly be able to verify, dispute or calrify that.

Daav

 

[Micter]

http://www.homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=212819&highlight=Isolation+Cab

Here's one I built a while ago. I used a 10" speaker and a small encloser. I am surprized how well it works. Better than a modeler that's for sure.

 

[chessrock]

ive yet to hear an amp modeler that i would want in my own recordings.

A PSM is not an amp modeler. You run direct out of your amp, and it does a convincing job of mimic'ing the sound of a mic against a speaker ... which is much less difficult than trying to simulate the sound of tubes being driven.