Recent content by Dan Merrill

http://cgi.ebay.com/Studio-shades-for-Neumann-vocal-sessions_W0QQitemZ7394944708QQcategoryZ41466QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem The latest compliment to the Lava lamp, and sure to put your studio on the forefront of hipness.

I recently lost an auction to buy some high end mics, and two days later was contacted privately by the ( so called) seller that the auction sale did not go through and was offering me a "second chance" to buy them at the price I had bid. He sent it on official looking ebay HTML page with the...

I was recording an scratch overdub vocal today at the end of a session and had something happen I've never seen before. The wave draw couldn't keep up with song track as it was recording. (I only had about 14 tracks playing although the project file is almost 5GB) After we finished the take, on...

I was at a store the other day and saw Korg's triton keyboard- I think it's called the "extreme" model (I'm not a keyboard player) it's a big one anyway... The part that killed me was the window on the top of this digital workstation with clear plexiglass bubble, which revealed a tube wedged in...

Not that you'll be putting these on the back walls of the home studio, but I built some huge resonators this past week and thought I'd show 'em off. They are part of the acoustic treatment for a church I'm doing some work at. The big ones are 7'x8' and the smaller ones are 3'x8'. They vary in...

was poking around a studio on music row in nashville last week and saw these simple gobos. Liked the window idea.

especially when it's turned on

this is a pretty cool link of a sound company experimenting with using 1/2 round sonar tubes for diffusion and to tame flutter echo problems. Some before and after sound bytes of their tests. Interesting stuff. May be useful for some of you newbies who are not quite sure what flutter echo is...

I'm researching multipair cabling for my studio and getting confused by all the specs concerning OHM ratings. I know some of my mics are rated in the 50 -100 ohm range, and the multipairs are roughly in the same range. SO, what do these figures actually mean to me in terms of sound and should...

I've got three rooms to connect with snake cabling: the control room, iso booth, and amp room. Basically, I'll have three multipair cables coming to the mixer, a few Cat5 cables and perhaps a coax. I'm putting a hardwood floor in the control room and am wondering what solutions you guys have...

I'm finally living up to the title of this forum- today the first walls went up on mine.. And so the questions begin: The exterior walls are 2x6 and will have resilient channel/ drywall inside. Is there an acoustic benefit to using owens corning 703 insulation in the walls as opposed to the...

I visited a friends studio this week. the guy has spent bucks and has some nice equipment in his three room space which consists of tracking room (maybe 15'x15' with 9' ceilings) a smaller control room- 9 x 10 and a small live amp room/ hallway- 8x8. It is beautifully finished and has central...

I'm building a bunch of acoustic panels for the church I belong to, and just ordered a lot of fabric from this company. They seem to be THE leaders in this field of fire rated fabric in the US. It's also pricey as all get out, $17.50 USD a linear yard and up. The last panels I built (and posted...

I built some simple sound absorbers today for my friend's guitar teaching room. (It was loud with too much room echo) Got some pics some of you might enjoy as I know pics speak volumes when making your own. Materials 1-4'x8' sheet of 1/4" luan board 1-16" x 96" MDF board, 3/4" thick 1- 4x8...

Anybody got any they want to sell? Used is Ok, if not abused.