pure.fusion
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Hi all. I've had a request to post some pics and info of my new ISO both.
I've been trying to deal with the very large volumes out of my Fender Blues Jr to obtain that classic Tube sound. When I say very large volume, of couese I'm not competing with a Laney Stack, just my domestic setting.
A friend of mine has to move house, and had a home made "vocal booth" setup. he made a pine frame, covered both sides with plaster and filled the middle with insulation; I don't know what type or how dense. He, also installed 2 power points, an offset hole at the bottom to pass a multicore cable through while still being insulated and a triple insulated window.
There were only three sides made and was meant to be erected in the corner of a room utilizing two walls of the room as the last two walls of the booth.
From reading here, I think his vocal booth suffered the same as many others; it was a big cube with no bass trapping and some foam type material (pictured) to squash the top end. So I imagine it would have produced a lifeless, bass boomy vocal.
It weighed a friggin' tonne.
i installed it, as best I could in the room available, and made it air tight against the bricks.
I threw the amp in and threw a mic against it and test the sound out on a song we were recording on the weekend. Sample Here
My own fault the amp settings had been changed in the rearranging of stuff; the bass too high and the treble too low, so it sounds a bit dark. But other than this, I can't really tell the difference in sound from the amp now being in the booth.
... although It's a heap less noisy
I haven't got SPL data for you unfortunately. But to give you some idea, before the iso booth, the amp made noise well and truly over the fence, over the road ind into the park over the road. People in the house would find it too load to do anything like watch TV, or even drown it our with other music - it was invasively loud, with an element of bass vibration.
Now, my wife can watch TV with the volume up higher than normal and not "be bothered" by the amp. The neighbors wouldn't even know it's happening.
I'm actually disappointed with the amount of isolation. While I was installing it I got my hopes up on how quiet the results would be. I remind myself that it *was* free and it's got a lot of sound to squash.
Where to from here? Well, I'll be experimenting with the amp sound in the booth, mic distance from the grill etc.
I don't know if I'm that keen to start treating the room with bass traps and diffusers etc to achieve a flat(er) response and to avoid a "put the ol' foam up" dead sounding room. If I go to that trouble, it's still just a small box room. If the Blues Jr recordings sound "ok" I won't bother. Of course I am curious to see the difference if I did treat it.
I mean what would vocals sound like in this booth if it were treated acoustically, but still just a small room? Would sound like acoustically treated small boxy room I guess. I dunno.
I wouldn't mind some feedback from those who own studio's on the sound of the sample above - as deep or as shallow as you like.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
FM
I've been trying to deal with the very large volumes out of my Fender Blues Jr to obtain that classic Tube sound. When I say very large volume, of couese I'm not competing with a Laney Stack, just my domestic setting.
A friend of mine has to move house, and had a home made "vocal booth" setup. he made a pine frame, covered both sides with plaster and filled the middle with insulation; I don't know what type or how dense. He, also installed 2 power points, an offset hole at the bottom to pass a multicore cable through while still being insulated and a triple insulated window.
There were only three sides made and was meant to be erected in the corner of a room utilizing two walls of the room as the last two walls of the booth.
From reading here, I think his vocal booth suffered the same as many others; it was a big cube with no bass trapping and some foam type material (pictured) to squash the top end. So I imagine it would have produced a lifeless, bass boomy vocal.
It weighed a friggin' tonne.
i installed it, as best I could in the room available, and made it air tight against the bricks.
I threw the amp in and threw a mic against it and test the sound out on a song we were recording on the weekend. Sample Here
My own fault the amp settings had been changed in the rearranging of stuff; the bass too high and the treble too low, so it sounds a bit dark. But other than this, I can't really tell the difference in sound from the amp now being in the booth.
... although It's a heap less noisy
I haven't got SPL data for you unfortunately. But to give you some idea, before the iso booth, the amp made noise well and truly over the fence, over the road ind into the park over the road. People in the house would find it too load to do anything like watch TV, or even drown it our with other music - it was invasively loud, with an element of bass vibration.
Now, my wife can watch TV with the volume up higher than normal and not "be bothered" by the amp. The neighbors wouldn't even know it's happening.
I'm actually disappointed with the amount of isolation. While I was installing it I got my hopes up on how quiet the results would be. I remind myself that it *was* free and it's got a lot of sound to squash.
Where to from here? Well, I'll be experimenting with the amp sound in the booth, mic distance from the grill etc.
I don't know if I'm that keen to start treating the room with bass traps and diffusers etc to achieve a flat(er) response and to avoid a "put the ol' foam up" dead sounding room. If I go to that trouble, it's still just a small box room. If the Blues Jr recordings sound "ok" I won't bother. Of course I am curious to see the difference if I did treat it.
I mean what would vocals sound like in this booth if it were treated acoustically, but still just a small room? Would sound like acoustically treated small boxy room I guess. I dunno.
I wouldn't mind some feedback from those who own studio's on the sound of the sample above - as deep or as shallow as you like.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
FM
