mshilarious
Banned
Well I think the latest round of upgrades are done, and to celebrate, here's my happy home:
It's an 8.5' x 11' room in a tiny house, so that's all I'm ever going to get. The major construction was done 5 years ago (before I found this site
), but I managed to get most of the basics done OK. The walls are offset stud, further buffered by utility rooms and closets, so the isolation from the rest of the basement is good. The ceiling isolation is nonexistant--just a drop ceiling with 12" of insulation above. Thus I don't allow stomping in the bedroom above 
and next winter I'm hoping to rebuild the ceiling.
The wall surfaces are 1" rigid fiberglass insulation and the floor is carpeted. Bass trapping is provided by the ceiling, as well as the soffit and that little notch in the corner, all of which are filled with insulation. I need to measure the response, but I think it sounds pretty good.
The key for me is preserving floorspace, and to that end, I racked everything in a glass door stereo cabinet. I built in patch panels on the side of the rack, so I don't have to access the back of the rack, and I can close the door once levels are set. With the door closed, the rack is quiet enough for cardioid condensers on quiet instruments.
I have a little 16" x 26" control desk that holds an LCD monitor, wireless keyboard, and mouse. I can place it anywhere in room--it's pushed against the wall in the picture, but for mixing I turn it around to the 'sweet spot' in the room. Guitars and monitors are wall-mounted--soffit mounting wasn't possible for the monitors without sacrificing precious floor space.
Other than that, I can configure the room any way I need--right now you see my portable rig in the southeast corner, which I can roll into the room to transfer tracks to PC for mixdown. Alternatively I set up drums or the keyboard in that corner, or even the trusty ol' Tascam 488 sitting on top of the rack.
Well, that's it, thanks for visiting!
(Oh, in the layout, up is west)
It's an 8.5' x 11' room in a tiny house, so that's all I'm ever going to get. The major construction was done 5 years ago (before I found this site
), but I managed to get most of the basics done OK. The walls are offset stud, further buffered by utility rooms and closets, so the isolation from the rest of the basement is good. The ceiling isolation is nonexistant--just a drop ceiling with 12" of insulation above. Thus I don't allow stomping in the bedroom above and next winter I'm hoping to rebuild the ceiling.The wall surfaces are 1" rigid fiberglass insulation and the floor is carpeted. Bass trapping is provided by the ceiling, as well as the soffit and that little notch in the corner, all of which are filled with insulation. I need to measure the response, but I think it sounds pretty good.
The key for me is preserving floorspace, and to that end, I racked everything in a glass door stereo cabinet. I built in patch panels on the side of the rack, so I don't have to access the back of the rack, and I can close the door once levels are set. With the door closed, the rack is quiet enough for cardioid condensers on quiet instruments.
I have a little 16" x 26" control desk that holds an LCD monitor, wireless keyboard, and mouse. I can place it anywhere in room--it's pushed against the wall in the picture, but for mixing I turn it around to the 'sweet spot' in the room. Guitars and monitors are wall-mounted--soffit mounting wasn't possible for the monitors without sacrificing precious floor space.
Other than that, I can configure the room any way I need--right now you see my portable rig in the southeast corner, which I can roll into the room to transfer tracks to PC for mixdown. Alternatively I set up drums or the keyboard in that corner, or even the trusty ol' Tascam 488 sitting on top of the rack.
Well, that's it, thanks for visiting!
(Oh, in the layout, up is west)
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What's worse is the little notch in the corner is the water supply & drain, so there's a wee bit of noise that leaks in if somebody flushes a toilet. I usually work so late at night that I haven't bothered with better isolation there.
A 12 hour project turned into 36 hours. Just because of lack of one piece of knowlege. Pulled the transmission TWICE because of it. Once I found it on the net...ha...one minute later...VOILA!! A ratchet mechanisim up behind the dash on the..."quadrant"... fuck me. I could murder car designers. 
