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chessrock
Banned
I have very limited knowlege about accoustics.
Yet, somehow, I have a room in my basement that just seems to work for me, as if by magic. It just works so well, somehow, for drums. And you'd think with a basement setup, low ceilings, etc. that it would be an accoustic nightmare, but it's not.
To give a description:
The basement is large. And it is partitioned in to these little quadrants with big stone slabs separating it in to little "rooms," almost.
Towards the back, I have a little "quiet pocket" where I like to track. The walls go something like this:
________
[___
. . . [______]
I know this is petty f&*%e'd up looking. But let me explain it to you. The bottom line (after the dots) represents my back wall, which is surrounded on either side by concrete slabs. Up and to the left you will see yet more walls, which form yet another small "room" or pocket. So you got almost two little rooms almost that are slightly off of one another - not parallel, exactly. And to the upper right where it all opens up, well, that's actually a small opening that leads in to another back room (wich is about 12 feet by 12 feet). Behind the top line, which represents the front wall (it's a thin dry wall), is yet even more empty space (actually it's a continuation of the extra room I mentioned to the right).
Everything in these two adjoining "mini-rooms" or pockets I have lined with accoustic foam everywhere. It's in such a dead-sounding area, that once you enter this "zone," it souds pretty much like a sound vaccum when you talk. Yet when I use sensitive mics, you can definitely hear a room, but it is really unobtrusive and compliments the drums to where it actually sounds big and with excellent stereo image.
To anyone who might know: is it possible that the adjoining room to the right (or the space behind the dry wall) is acting as a natural bass trap? It's big, and there's plenty of space for the bass to diffuse, I'm guessing. Yet the opening to the room is about as big as a doorway. The only thing separating that room from my drum area (bottom of my awesome illustration) is a bed mattress stuck in the doorway-sized opening.
Is it possible that my odd room configuration lends itself to natural bass traps and is immune to a lot of the standing wave problems I might otherwise get? Just curious as to how this seems to be sounding good despite my conventional that would tell me otherwise.
Yet, somehow, I have a room in my basement that just seems to work for me, as if by magic. It just works so well, somehow, for drums. And you'd think with a basement setup, low ceilings, etc. that it would be an accoustic nightmare, but it's not.
To give a description:
The basement is large. And it is partitioned in to these little quadrants with big stone slabs separating it in to little "rooms," almost.
Towards the back, I have a little "quiet pocket" where I like to track. The walls go something like this:
________
[___
. . . [______]
I know this is petty f&*%e'd up looking. But let me explain it to you. The bottom line (after the dots) represents my back wall, which is surrounded on either side by concrete slabs. Up and to the left you will see yet more walls, which form yet another small "room" or pocket. So you got almost two little rooms almost that are slightly off of one another - not parallel, exactly. And to the upper right where it all opens up, well, that's actually a small opening that leads in to another back room (wich is about 12 feet by 12 feet). Behind the top line, which represents the front wall (it's a thin dry wall), is yet even more empty space (actually it's a continuation of the extra room I mentioned to the right).
Everything in these two adjoining "mini-rooms" or pockets I have lined with accoustic foam everywhere. It's in such a dead-sounding area, that once you enter this "zone," it souds pretty much like a sound vaccum when you talk. Yet when I use sensitive mics, you can definitely hear a room, but it is really unobtrusive and compliments the drums to where it actually sounds big and with excellent stereo image.
To anyone who might know: is it possible that the adjoining room to the right (or the space behind the dry wall) is acting as a natural bass trap? It's big, and there's plenty of space for the bass to diffuse, I'm guessing. Yet the opening to the room is about as big as a doorway. The only thing separating that room from my drum area (bottom of my awesome illustration) is a bed mattress stuck in the doorway-sized opening.
Is it possible that my odd room configuration lends itself to natural bass traps and is immune to a lot of the standing wave problems I might otherwise get? Just curious as to how this seems to be sounding good despite my conventional that would tell me otherwise.
