GONZO-X
Well-known member
i bought a used demeter isolation cabinet.... off of ebay.....
it is very tight, and well built....
it has a brand new v30 celestion in it...
so, i gotta be careful driving my boogie into it (60 'boogie' watts into a 30 watt driver spells disaster!)
but when i got it, it had a fibery dacron insulation attached..... which i thought i could improve on, so i did surgery.... and the surgery on the iso cab was sucessful!
let me explain-
when i first got the iso cab, and first heard it, i thought "this is totally worth the money".
but i also looked at the dacron insulation that lined the entire cabinet, and i thought "i can do better".
so, i went online, purchased 36 sq ft of 2" Acoustic Wedge Foam....
12"X12"X2" squares....to treat my studio room with... and some extra for the cabinet....
so, i spent an afternoon, stripping out all the dacron insulation (man, that stuff was put in really well!) and prepping the surfaces for spray-adhesive gluing in the insulation.
i had to block off the speaker, and wrapped the cab around the access door for any sprayover, and starting cutting out pieces of the wedge foam, to fit in just right.
i cut out sections for the handles, the speaker wires, the mic cable, and the microphone mount.
every inch of the inside of that thing is covered now....
looks like a anechoic chamber in there!
and talk about a difference in the sound!!
i can crank up even louder now, and what the mic hears is more accurate, more even.....
I'll try to get some pics tonight, and post tomorrow...
this iso cab, as loud as i play it, does not completely kill the sound, of course....
it allows me to play at (almost) stage volume, but is only as loud in the room, as a casual volume stereo would be....
wouldn't work situations where you don't want any bleed over onto other mics in the same room, but is totally do-able for home and apt. situations, especially if you had a low wattage amp you wanted to crank all the way...
as it is, the boogie is still only on about 1.5.
LOL
and that's freakin' loud.....
but it's a 60 watter, 60 boogie watts, my little mark2b head is as loud as a 100 watt marshall......
i still think, ultimately, if i want to use the boogie head, i could get a nice weber speaker, and a speaker mass, and dial it in even better!
and i'm still using the pod for the different amp sounds, and i'm still to experiment with just pure boogie....
pics of the isocab, post surgery
so, i spent sunday afternoon, stripping out all the dacron insulation (man, that stuff was put in really well!) and prepping the surfaces for spray-adhesive gluing in the insulation.
i had to block off the speaker, and wrapped the cab around the access door for any sprayover, and starting cutting out pieces of the wedge foam, to fit in just right.
i cut out sections for the handles, the speaker wires, the mic cable, and the microphone mount.
every inch of the inside of that thing is covered now....
looks like a anechoic chamber in there!
a link, to a song i recorded, using the iso cab for all the guitar parts....
guitar>>podXT (set for no cabs/mic models, live mode, 2x12)>>mesa boogie mark2b (power section only)>> iso cab>>at4033 mic>>ART DPS preamp>>digital out>>vs-1880 recorder.
it is very tight, and well built....
it has a brand new v30 celestion in it...
so, i gotta be careful driving my boogie into it (60 'boogie' watts into a 30 watt driver spells disaster!)
but when i got it, it had a fibery dacron insulation attached..... which i thought i could improve on, so i did surgery.... and the surgery on the iso cab was sucessful!
let me explain-
when i first got the iso cab, and first heard it, i thought "this is totally worth the money".
but i also looked at the dacron insulation that lined the entire cabinet, and i thought "i can do better".
so, i went online, purchased 36 sq ft of 2" Acoustic Wedge Foam....
12"X12"X2" squares....to treat my studio room with... and some extra for the cabinet....
so, i spent an afternoon, stripping out all the dacron insulation (man, that stuff was put in really well!) and prepping the surfaces for spray-adhesive gluing in the insulation.
i had to block off the speaker, and wrapped the cab around the access door for any sprayover, and starting cutting out pieces of the wedge foam, to fit in just right.
i cut out sections for the handles, the speaker wires, the mic cable, and the microphone mount.
every inch of the inside of that thing is covered now....
looks like a anechoic chamber in there!
and talk about a difference in the sound!!
i can crank up even louder now, and what the mic hears is more accurate, more even.....
I'll try to get some pics tonight, and post tomorrow...
this iso cab, as loud as i play it, does not completely kill the sound, of course....
it allows me to play at (almost) stage volume, but is only as loud in the room, as a casual volume stereo would be....
wouldn't work situations where you don't want any bleed over onto other mics in the same room, but is totally do-able for home and apt. situations, especially if you had a low wattage amp you wanted to crank all the way...
as it is, the boogie is still only on about 1.5.
LOL
and that's freakin' loud.....
but it's a 60 watter, 60 boogie watts, my little mark2b head is as loud as a 100 watt marshall......
i still think, ultimately, if i want to use the boogie head, i could get a nice weber speaker, and a speaker mass, and dial it in even better!
and i'm still using the pod for the different amp sounds, and i'm still to experiment with just pure boogie....
pics of the isocab, post surgery
so, i spent sunday afternoon, stripping out all the dacron insulation (man, that stuff was put in really well!) and prepping the surfaces for spray-adhesive gluing in the insulation.
i had to block off the speaker, and wrapped the cab around the access door for any sprayover, and starting cutting out pieces of the wedge foam, to fit in just right.
i cut out sections for the handles, the speaker wires, the mic cable, and the microphone mount.
every inch of the inside of that thing is covered now....
looks like a anechoic chamber in there!
a link, to a song i recorded, using the iso cab for all the guitar parts....
guitar>>podXT (set for no cabs/mic models, live mode, 2x12)>>mesa boogie mark2b (power section only)>> iso cab>>at4033 mic>>ART DPS preamp>>digital out>>vs-1880 recorder.
