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Hi, this is Joe Bennett here from StudioDoctors in the UK, just to let you know we've joined your very impressive webring.

We're an independent studio consultancy, specialising in home studios and workstation setups. If you're in the Bath or Bristol area, please get in touch for more info. Unfortunately, we don't provide technical support over email (has any web-based business found a way to make this cost-effective?!) but we'd certainly be interested in making contact with other UK home studio users.

The service we provide (i.e. buying advice, installation and training) appears to be unique in the UK - have any overseas companies had success in this field that we don't know about?
 
So you've joined the web-ring but you won't take part in discussions? I guess I didn't quite understand what you were talking about there... Hopefully you'll answer/ask questions like the rest of us and enjoy the free knowledge. There's nothing better than hearing from someone with experience.
-Later
 
Re: discussions

Don't get me wrong!

Sorry, didn't make myself clear there. Absolutely we want to take part in discussions, and will post/receive advice on this BBS with the best of 'em!

No, what I mean is we don't answer email queries directly and individually at StudioDoctors, because it takes away from the on-site work we do (just trying to avoid a flood of email at the office!)

Still, we're looking forward to hanging out here and seeing what happens... free knowledge is, as you say, one of the wonderful things about the http://www.
 
well welcome aboard studio doctors , im sure we're all looking forward to many good wonderful discusions with you. In fact , i believe u could help me with a small querie?? Im building a small vocal booth , about 1m x 3m ..i know how bad the spot is , but this is what i have to work with .. Its behind a large cabinet the space i have .. What i need to know is the most cost effective material , also space concious, to use to cover the full backing of this cabinet. Its about 3m high (well to the ceiling anyway) by the 3m in length ... What would u sugest? also , how dead should i make the space ?? im using a rode nt1 , i need i very quiet area to record vocals ..please note this space is in the control room .. any help will be much apreciated ..cheers ..
spider
 
Welcome!!

Welcome to homerecording.com, Joe!
I appreciate your willingness to share your experience with us!
See you around ...
 
Vocal booth

Reply to Spider's query about vocal booths.

>Im building a small vocal booth , about 1m x 3m
So presumably you'll need some sort of rotary arm fitted to do the cat-swinging for you!

>What i need to know is the most cost effective
>material... to cover the full backing of this cabinet.
Depends where you want sound PROOFING or sound DAMPING. I'll assume that your studio will be mainly used by you, and that you'll have headphone monitoring in the booth (BTW I'd advise putting some tape transport remote control in there too to save you nipping backwards and forwards between takes...)

If the studio itself doesn't generate much noise beyond the fans from the kit and perhaps the odd leak from outside, then your main issue is really damping rather than soundproofing. Personally I would make the vocal booth as dead as possible, so a basic wood/chipboard/plexiglass construction with some simple thick curtains around the inside is probably your cheapest option. In my own home workstation room I actually pinned curtains all the way around the walls.

Hope this helps...


[Edited by studiodoctors on 08-18-2000 at 08:26]
 
Re: Doh!

studiodoctors said:
Oops - last message should read "inside" i.e. the curtains should go round the inside of the booth!

Joe
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You can just edit the message you screwed up by hitting "edit" below your message.
 
Re: Vocal booth

studiodoctors said:
Reply to Spider's query about vocal booths.

>Im building a small vocal booth , about 1m x 3m
So presumably you'll need some sort of rotary arm fitted to do the cat-swinging for you!

>What i need to know is the most cost effective
>material... to cover the full backing of this cabinet.
Depends where you want sound PROOFING or sound DAMPING. I'll assume that your studio will be mainly used by you, and that you'll have headphone monitoring in the booth (BTW I'd advise putting some tape transport remote control in there too to save you nipping backwards and forwards between takes...)

If the studio itself doesn't generate much noise beyond the fans from the kit and perhaps the odd leak from outside, then your main issue is really damping rather than soundproofing. Personally I would make the vocal booth as dead as possible, so a basic wood/chipboard/plexiglass construction with some simple thick curtains around the inside is probably your cheapest option. In my own home workstation room I actually pinned curtains all the way around the walls.

Hope this helps...

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hey cheers for that ,
Well the problem i have is that it wont be me im recording , itll be other people ... i was really worried about leakage from the control room monitors .. i would like to be able to monitor through these while recording vocals..though if leakage is going to occur i would just use headphones while recording vocals .. all other instruments are recorded in different rooms where no leakage occurs ... just the vocal booth is in the control room .. But i think i will just have to do my best to sound proof it ..
I have some thick chip board and some fairly thick soft foam .. are these any good ?? Plus i was going to try and just pack out the inside of the cabinet with something ... but what ?? whats really cheap yet a lot of it gives you good results ... any ideas ?? well thanks for your help joe ... like the kahunsta said , look forward to many great posts from the studio doctors ... great to have you aboard
cheers all
spider
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RE: Vocal booth

Basically, with any form of soundproofing, the best way think of it is to start from the point of view of the physics. Sound absorption is maximised if the sound has to travel through materials of different densities. An ideal would be, say, breeze block, air, foam, wadding, foam, air, breeze block.

Obviously this is not appropriate for a vocal booth (!) but if you use that philosophy and combine dense materials with less dense ones, that will achieve most of the results you're after.

The other issue, of course, is how loud you choose to monitor in the control room. Technical tip - don't have anything on in the control room that you ABSOLUTELY don't want as part of the final mix. The classic example here is the click. I've heard loads of recordings where a click has been used to keep a vocalist in time over, say, an unaccompanied vocal intro. On the final mix, the (exposed) vocal ends up with click all over it, not because of poor soundproofing exclusively, but because of poor anticipation of the nature of the final product.

So, if your vocalist can hear what they're doing through phones, you can afford to monitor really quietly just for the duration of that take. All you need to do during a take really is monitor levels, which you can do visually. You can check the take for 'p' popping and the like later, when you haven't got a live mic in the booth.

Hope this helps

Joe
 
Hey

I don't participate much in this forum but I'd just thought I'd say Welcome! and I'm sure we'll see a lot of eachother if you visit the other various forums.
 
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