RecordingMaster
A Sarcastic Statement
Hey there,
I just finished adding some strategically placed 1x1 foam wedges on the walls and ceiling of my tracking room (drums, guitars, percussion, etc) in a checkerboard pattern. I have also added bass traps in all four corners and have the room sounding pretty good. The control room is upstairs in what I convinced my wife was to be a "home office for everyone to use in the family" so that she doesn't nag and say I'm hogging all the house for my own selfish needs
. All's I could convince her to allow me to put up in there as far as acoustical products go, are some foam wedges in front of the mix position (right behind the monitor speakers) as well as a fabric-covered dense drywall-like acoustical panel hung on the wall behind the mix position to avoid some unwanted reflections.
My dilemma (if you want to call it that):
A music store in my city that once offered music lessons went into foreclosure and the bank was selling all their stuff for half price. I went into one of the teaching rooms. The drum room had a large amount of old brown-orangish acoustical foam panels covering a large part of the walls. They let me take them for free since the bank had no idea what they were! These must be 4'x4' each and are the alternating square-type patterns like this http://img.directindustry.com/images_di/photo-m2/wall-mounting-acoustic-panel-519423.jpg
I have 5 sheets of this and I'm thinking there has GOT to be something I can do with them! Like I said, the tracking room is already where it needs to be acoustically and the control room is as good as I'm going to have permission to get it.
I am brainstorming on what to do with it. It is rather ugly and old looking, but is super thick and would be very useful for SOMETHING. I am thinking maybe I will build two portable free standing 4' wide X 6' walls (one with a window in it) out of plywood and 2x4's and cover them in the foam on the inside. Then place them in the corner to make a vocal booth using the 2 exterior walls (cement block) as the other two walls. On those walls I'd hang moving blankets to cancel out the concrete reflections. The mic would go in the treated corner (where the two walls I make meet together). Then I would treat the ceiling above and put a rubber absorptive mat on the tile floor below to reduce mic stand vibrations.
That is the plan I have in my head and I'm wondering if it's even worth it. Can anyone think of anything else I could use it for? It's ugly so it couldn't be something right out on the open but if it was, I'd cover it in some fabric of some sort. I was reading about vocal booths and that small home studios don't really need them, since you can achieve almost the same results with a small portable vocal isolation thing like this (which I could also make out of some of the foam but then what to do with the rest of it?). RealTraps - Portable Vocal Booth
Any suggestions or help from someone with experience in the acoustics field would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I just finished adding some strategically placed 1x1 foam wedges on the walls and ceiling of my tracking room (drums, guitars, percussion, etc) in a checkerboard pattern. I have also added bass traps in all four corners and have the room sounding pretty good. The control room is upstairs in what I convinced my wife was to be a "home office for everyone to use in the family" so that she doesn't nag and say I'm hogging all the house for my own selfish needs
. All's I could convince her to allow me to put up in there as far as acoustical products go, are some foam wedges in front of the mix position (right behind the monitor speakers) as well as a fabric-covered dense drywall-like acoustical panel hung on the wall behind the mix position to avoid some unwanted reflections.My dilemma (if you want to call it that):
A music store in my city that once offered music lessons went into foreclosure and the bank was selling all their stuff for half price. I went into one of the teaching rooms. The drum room had a large amount of old brown-orangish acoustical foam panels covering a large part of the walls. They let me take them for free since the bank had no idea what they were! These must be 4'x4' each and are the alternating square-type patterns like this http://img.directindustry.com/images_di/photo-m2/wall-mounting-acoustic-panel-519423.jpg
I have 5 sheets of this and I'm thinking there has GOT to be something I can do with them! Like I said, the tracking room is already where it needs to be acoustically and the control room is as good as I'm going to have permission to get it.
I am brainstorming on what to do with it. It is rather ugly and old looking, but is super thick and would be very useful for SOMETHING. I am thinking maybe I will build two portable free standing 4' wide X 6' walls (one with a window in it) out of plywood and 2x4's and cover them in the foam on the inside. Then place them in the corner to make a vocal booth using the 2 exterior walls (cement block) as the other two walls. On those walls I'd hang moving blankets to cancel out the concrete reflections. The mic would go in the treated corner (where the two walls I make meet together). Then I would treat the ceiling above and put a rubber absorptive mat on the tile floor below to reduce mic stand vibrations.
That is the plan I have in my head and I'm wondering if it's even worth it. Can anyone think of anything else I could use it for? It's ugly so it couldn't be something right out on the open but if it was, I'd cover it in some fabric of some sort. I was reading about vocal booths and that small home studios don't really need them, since you can achieve almost the same results with a small portable vocal isolation thing like this (which I could also make out of some of the foam but then what to do with the rest of it?). RealTraps - Portable Vocal Booth
Any suggestions or help from someone with experience in the acoustics field would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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