like the desk. I've got the Producer Station. $75? Ya lucky shite!
Yea I got extremely lucky. Craigs List can be amazing sometimes. How do you like the Producer Station? What do you put on that slide out shelf to the left?
like the desk. I've got the Producer Station. $75? Ya lucky shite!
I can't see the numbers!
IT IS ELEVEN MINUTES AFTER TEN POST MERIDIAN, EASTERN, AKA 10:11 PM!
That's a nice space!
The 688 looks pretty macho beside the rack.
You look really young for your age!
Nice loooking guitars.
I like it. I don't put anthing on it just now. I don't have much to put in/on this desk yet. It looks quite bare.Yea I got extremely lucky. Craigs List can be amazing sometimes. How do you like the Producer Station? What do you put on that slide out shelf to the left?
Why 3 booths and live room? I'd have 1 large live room and a booth and WC in the control or live room. And you have the option to not have square rooms, so why build square?Hi folks,
I have a nice separate two car garage with a workshop.
The space is about 728 ft sq or so with 31' by 23.6' dimensions.
I really want to have at least three iso booths and a main room if possible with a control room
I realize that square rooms aren't perfect for acoustics, but I can put traps in etc.
I've attahced my ideas for the room with some reasonably detailed dimensions.
The thing is, I really want to have this many isos for recording multi acoustic recordings
I'm based in Nashville. Folks love to go for that live sound, but to get a perfect recording, you don't want a bad fiddle part leaking into a good bass part etc., so its not about the separation for mixing purposes so much, but for performance.
I'd love some folks input before I start framing in the walls etc.
I really want to have the smallest iso booths I can get away with, and folks be comfortable.
Let me know your thoughts..
Here's my idea
I really want to have at least three iso booths and a main room if possible with a control room
I realize that square rooms aren't perfect for acoustics, but I can put traps in etc.
I've attahced my ideas for the room with some reasonably detailed dimensions.
The thing is, I really want to have this many isos for recording multi acoustic recordings
I'm based in Nashville. Folks love to go for that live sound, but to get a perfect recording, you don't want a bad fiddle part leaking into a good bass part etc., so its not about the separation for mixing purposes so much, but for performance.
Square rooms-- equal length and width-- would accentuate frequencies and make nodes even worse than most rectangular rooms.I know what you're getting at but tiny little rooms aren't going to sound good no matter what you do to them. The 9'x9' drum iso is close to a usable size, but the other two are way too small. And just on principal I disagree with the statement about live recordings, *especially* country and bluegrass. If you eliminate at least the 6'x6' booth in the live room and make some good gobos I have absolutely no doubt at all that you could get stellar recordings (all else being up to par, of course). If you're worried about somebody's screwup making it to tape and wrecking the rest of the groups' take, that's what punch-ins are for. No big deal.
You're also messing up your control room with that booth. The acoustics will be problematic. I'd kill that one and the small one in the live room. The 9x9 booth can stay, but I'm not sure how usable it will end up being...that's going to be a very tight drum sound. The big room might end up being much more useful most of the time.
Frank
Baffles won't provide much separation, but you shouldn't really need any. You can record all instruments individually. Drums, then bass, then guitar, then vocals for instance.I guess I could use baffles instead of booths.
How good are baffles in terms of separation?
The reason I want separation is so that for instance, I have a great guitar part, but the fiddler messed up.
Sure, I can punch in the fiddle, but I don't want the old bad fiddle part to have leaked into the perfect guitar part.
When you have five musicians playing acoustic instruments, you don't want any bad parts leaking into anything else.
That's my reason for so many booths.
It seems to be fashion these days here in Nashville to record this way.
But, some bands DO like to record totally live in the room which is why I'd like a good main room too.
So, space, while i'm lucky while I'm lucky to have it, still needs to be used wisely.
I could build triangular booths instead of square ones I guess, and just bring two walls at an angle from the back wall to the side walls.
I basically want to have the two options of separation, or live one room band recording if Possible.
I have a friend who has a 5'6" square booth that I have used, and seems to have adequate space. He carpeted the floor and walls and the room is dead. It seems to sound fine for recording. That's why I figured on 2, 6 ft square booths, just from personal experience of recording.
The same friend has a 9x10 drum booth, which is more than adequate. by that token, I figured my 9x9 would be fine too.
If I put bass traps in the room, and just basically deaden the room by the use of carpet, foam, getting rid of angles with soft matter , should the square room end up sounding okay???
The WC I need really for convenience, and not have folks going into the house with the dogs etc.
what would be the minimum dimensions for a vocal booth, or acoustic guitar booth/fiddle/ double bass etc??
Thanks
I have a friend who has a 5'6" square booth that I have used, and seems to have adequate space. He carpeted the floor and walls and the room is dead. It seems to sound fine for recording. That's why I figured on 2, 6 ft square booths, just from personal experience of recording.
The same friend has a 9x10 drum booth, which is more than adequate. by that token, I figured my 9x9 would be fine too.
If I put bass traps in the room, and just basically deaden the room by the use of carpet, foam, getting rid of angles with soft matter , should the square room end up sounding okay???
..what would be the minimum dimensions for a vocal booth, or acoustic guitar booth/fiddle/ double bass etc??