Hi all !
my current apartment has the most dreadful noises, I can hear the general building ventilation through the walls, cars out the window, the fridge down in the kitchen, there's a lot.
now I used to record at a nice studio space I was renting but with covid this became a difficult keep so I just moved my stuff at home.
now while I live here I'm only gonna be recording ideas and demos but the noise is a tad too much to make the process of recording my vocals enjoyable, plus there's the sound of the room which isn't too bad because the other noises are badder.
I know a lot are just gonna say to move elsewhere and I get that!
but this isn't possible right now, sometimes life is hard and you just gotta do with the cards that you're dealt, so I consider this a challenge.
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what I have :
4 pieces of rockwool 40 (or 60?) that are 24x24inch lying around, forgot which ones, it's been a decade I built acoustic panels.
also: fabric, cardboard, things you find around the house.
my first idea was to use them to build a sort of box that would wrap around my head and the microphone, each positioned in a corner, then I would suspend something from the ceiling above it to cut some of what's coming from atop (thick sheets?) like a tent ceiling.
-BUT-
my experience with anything that's a box is that it sounds boxy and thus just creates a new problem, albeit a lesser one.
perhaps I could curve the 3-4 square sheets to create a semi circle, or a complete circle, maybe that's better with possible boxiness.
another -uneducated- guess gets me thinking perhaps what is source to much of the comb filtering is the actual box frame that's holding the material in place and so maybe I can just wrap the square panels into fabric so there's not actual solid wall *behind the rockwool, I guess the fabric could be sewed in such a way to get the desired shape.
of course, there would be nothing helping floor reflections, but yea reducing *ANY* amount of noise at this point would be a good source of serotonin so I'd take it, especially if I already have the materials.
so yea I'm sure a lot of you experimented with different ideas, pretend you're a poor schmuck for a minute, what would you do with what I have.
my current apartment has the most dreadful noises, I can hear the general building ventilation through the walls, cars out the window, the fridge down in the kitchen, there's a lot.
now I used to record at a nice studio space I was renting but with covid this became a difficult keep so I just moved my stuff at home.
now while I live here I'm only gonna be recording ideas and demos but the noise is a tad too much to make the process of recording my vocals enjoyable, plus there's the sound of the room which isn't too bad because the other noises are badder.
I know a lot are just gonna say to move elsewhere and I get that!
but this isn't possible right now, sometimes life is hard and you just gotta do with the cards that you're dealt, so I consider this a challenge.
--------------------------
what I have :
4 pieces of rockwool 40 (or 60?) that are 24x24inch lying around, forgot which ones, it's been a decade I built acoustic panels.
also: fabric, cardboard, things you find around the house.
my first idea was to use them to build a sort of box that would wrap around my head and the microphone, each positioned in a corner, then I would suspend something from the ceiling above it to cut some of what's coming from atop (thick sheets?) like a tent ceiling.
-BUT-
my experience with anything that's a box is that it sounds boxy and thus just creates a new problem, albeit a lesser one.
perhaps I could curve the 3-4 square sheets to create a semi circle, or a complete circle, maybe that's better with possible boxiness.
another -uneducated- guess gets me thinking perhaps what is source to much of the comb filtering is the actual box frame that's holding the material in place and so maybe I can just wrap the square panels into fabric so there's not actual solid wall *behind the rockwool, I guess the fabric could be sewed in such a way to get the desired shape.
of course, there would be nothing helping floor reflections, but yea reducing *ANY* amount of noise at this point would be a good source of serotonin so I'd take it, especially if I already have the materials.
so yea I'm sure a lot of you experimented with different ideas, pretend you're a poor schmuck for a minute, what would you do with what I have.
