Help with room noise

[mithra6]

I saw sort of a similar topic as this a few days ago, but my situation is a little different.

After a while of doing direct recordings, I've decided on entering the wonderous world of miking my guitar. I've been experimenting on my acoustic. I'm using a Tone Port UX2 and an SM-57. The recording itself is fine, but as you've guessed I have alot of background noise.

I only have the option of recording in the same room as my PC. The closet in my room is smaller than a phone booth, so I don't have room to record there. I'm thinking the main culprit is my PC. It's a relatively quite PC, but when my mic is on, I can hear alot of air in my headphones.

I live in an apartment, so I don't want to do any construction and my funds are limited as well.

Do you think that putting blankets on the when I'm using the mic would help? Are there other simple ways to limit that "air" sound?

 

[Zetajazz44]

I've went through the same problem... There are many ideas on how to accomplish this in the "Studio Building and Display" forum. One thread there contains pictures of how I built my booth using moving blankets and PVC pipe it's located here:https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=181729

There are some simpler designs out there... Surf through the "Studio Building and Display" and I'm sure you'll find what you need...

 

[Creamyapples1]

I use an Alesis 3630 with gate to cut out that ambient "room noise". You could also pick up a few PS/2 cable extentions for your keyboard and mouse, and a VGA extention for your monitor and set your PC in the hall or the closet when you are trying to record. Depending of course on your setup. I usually record mic'd amps or guitars in my bathroom, with my g/f manning the PC in the "nerd room" as she calls it, to hit record and stop, etc.

The problem with putting blankets over your PC is the interuption of the airflow which could lead to heat issues within the PC and from there you have system crashes IF it gets that far.

You can get sound dampening stuff for inside your PC case, I'm going to try this soon as well.

http://www.frozencpu.com/noi-02.html

 

[mixsit]

...The problem with putting blankets over your PC is the interuption of the airflow which could lead to heat issues within the PC and from there you have system crashes IF it gets that far.

Section off around the recording area and then just some loose fitting barriers and/or heavy blankets around the p/c.
I glommed on to some 1/2" foam core board that works well enough to block down to the midrange and it's light and handy for various chores like that. Add some blankets or padding...

 

[Creamyapples1]

Hopefully within the next week or so I'm going to be getting the padding for inside the PC case, as well as the dampeners for the PSU and fans, I'll post about the results if anyone is interested.