TerraMortim
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I cook, and cook well. Oh, the ignorance.
I cook, and cook well. Oh, the ignorance.
Freudian Slip
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Greg_L
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Then get your fairy ass over here and make me some pancakes.
Freudian Slip
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He's Canadian Greg! He has know what pancakes are
Try using flapjacks. I think that's Canadian for pancakes????
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Greg_L
Banned
Okay...
Then get your mullet-headed ass over here and cook me some flapjacks, you homo.
Then get your mullet-headed ass over here and cook me some flapjacks, you homo.
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chugheshc
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hi Greg,
I have a little (11' X 11') pocket studio.
I have acoustic drums, a 1 X12 guitar amp, a 1 X15 bass amp, a 21" CRT & PC,
a 16 channel mixer going into 2 motu 2408's. I also have 10-14 mics hooked up, and three or four mic stands, the res of the mics are hanging off of amps, the ceiling, or are attached to drums. I have (2) stools, and a small bookelf my preamp, power amp, monitor, leyboard annd mouse sit on. The pc sits on the floor.
On two of my walls I have 4" thick oc703 from the floor to about 36" in height, spaced 3" off the wall (this is becasue I hav a shelf on two walls about 9" deep at 40" height, covering the top of the foundation walls); I have 5 panels of oc703 that measure 2' X 4' X 3", (3) hanging off the ceiling 2" and (2) leaning against a wall. I also have two tightly wound rolls of r19 bat covered in fabric as bass traps.
Imho, you can always add reverb; my room is pretty dead frankly, but it seems to be working for me. The other thing i wanted to comment on is that I don't see how in the world you can have room for a couch: I just have room for myself and another guitar player since I added drums, There is just not enough room for anything that is not 100% related to music. You do have 4 more square feet than I do, but still......
It's not that the "corners" benefit from having bass traps in them, it's just that corners are often wasted space and you can fill them up with bass traps and not impact the useable space available.
Not that there is a formula, but I have 121 sq ft room, and I have 100+ sq ft plus of absorption/bass trap in there - If you get my drift, to have a seriously tangible effect on the acoustic properties of your room, you have to do a whole lot of work - every little bit helps, but chamfering a couple of corners with bass traps/oc703 is not going to make the kind of difference you hope it will.
To sum up, I can record anything I want in my little space and I am pretty happy with it, but there is not room to swing a dead cat, and it took another couple of months of experimenting with the acoustic treatment before I was satisfied with it.
Best of luck to you, and keep studying/experimenting.
Feel free to contact me off-forum w/questions.
cheers,
Chris
I have a little (11' X 11') pocket studio.
I have acoustic drums, a 1 X12 guitar amp, a 1 X15 bass amp, a 21" CRT & PC,
a 16 channel mixer going into 2 motu 2408's. I also have 10-14 mics hooked up, and three or four mic stands, the res of the mics are hanging off of amps, the ceiling, or are attached to drums. I have (2) stools, and a small bookelf my preamp, power amp, monitor, leyboard annd mouse sit on. The pc sits on the floor.
On two of my walls I have 4" thick oc703 from the floor to about 36" in height, spaced 3" off the wall (this is becasue I hav a shelf on two walls about 9" deep at 40" height, covering the top of the foundation walls); I have 5 panels of oc703 that measure 2' X 4' X 3", (3) hanging off the ceiling 2" and (2) leaning against a wall. I also have two tightly wound rolls of r19 bat covered in fabric as bass traps.
Imho, you can always add reverb; my room is pretty dead frankly, but it seems to be working for me. The other thing i wanted to comment on is that I don't see how in the world you can have room for a couch: I just have room for myself and another guitar player since I added drums, There is just not enough room for anything that is not 100% related to music. You do have 4 more square feet than I do, but still......
It's not that the "corners" benefit from having bass traps in them, it's just that corners are often wasted space and you can fill them up with bass traps and not impact the useable space available.
Not that there is a formula, but I have 121 sq ft room, and I have 100+ sq ft plus of absorption/bass trap in there - If you get my drift, to have a seriously tangible effect on the acoustic properties of your room, you have to do a whole lot of work - every little bit helps, but chamfering a couple of corners with bass traps/oc703 is not going to make the kind of difference you hope it will.
To sum up, I can record anything I want in my little space and I am pretty happy with it, but there is not room to swing a dead cat, and it took another couple of months of experimenting with the acoustic treatment before I was satisfied with it.
Best of luck to you, and keep studying/experimenting.
Feel free to contact me off-forum w/questions.
cheers,
Chris
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Greg_L
Banned
Haha. Thanks man. I appreciate the nice response. I don't know, maybe I'm a master of space management. I have everything set up and mic'd right now, but I can still comfortably lounge on the couch and watch football all day without even noticing the equipment everywhere.
My main goal is to get the very basics covered first and see how it goes. I can definitely notice the "holes" in the sound as I move around the room and bass stacking up in the corners. I'd like to get the basics covered and go from there. My main priority in treating this room is for mixing. I'm pretty happy with how the tracking usually comes out. I'd like my drums to track a little drier, but that's what I'm hoping the cloud over them will help with.
Freudian Slip
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If you want a little drier drums cheap. You can get a gromit kit at wal mart and buy some thick heavy comforters at some garage sales. Put gromits in the top of the comforters and a few nails in the walls on each side of that corner. Ya hang the comforters only when recording and walla. another thing I do is I take a boom stand. Put it all the way up and center the boom so the whole stand makes a big T. The I take a (you guessed it) big heavy comforter and hang that over the stand in front of the drum set. Along with those things and the cloud It seems to work pretty well with minimal treatment elswhere in the room.
Everything but the cloud can be taken down when not recording.
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Everything but the cloud can be taken down when not recording.
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Greg_L
Banned
Good ideas. Thanks. 
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chugheshc
New member
you're welcome Greg.
Grammar Nazi alert - it's "grommet", not "gromit".
You must have digital drums, or just a smaller kit for that to work.
Mine is a 5 piece, w/ 2 cymbal stands - it takes up soooooo much frickin real estate. one day, I will have a much larger space.
cheers
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Grammar Nazi alert - it's "grommet", not "gromit".
You must have digital drums, or just a smaller kit for that to work.
Mine is a 5 piece, w/ 2 cymbal stands - it takes up soooooo much frickin real estate. one day, I will have a much larger space.
cheers
C.
Freudian Slip
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I wasn't aware this was being graded
At least you admit your affiliation to the party
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PS the "grommets" are in the camping section most of the time, for reparing tarps and such.
Freudian Slip
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I forgot to mention an easier way to hang the stuff. I used grommets because I strung a cable and made a curtin I could pull across but, if you just want to put them up and take them down spring loaded wood clamps would be a lot easier. They are just like a giant cloths pin with a lot of pinch power.
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chugheshc
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everything gets graded, sometimes I pass along the results.
I don't know how much time Greg_L has wrapped up in this, bu I suspect he is just getting started....... This might be worse than owning a boat, since you canworry about it and work on ti anytime you feel like.
Party? No Party, just a few friends having drinks. and Drums, and a P.A.
ok, it;s a party.
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I don't know how much time Greg_L has wrapped up in this, bu I suspect he is just getting started....... This might be worse than owning a boat, since you canworry about it and work on ti anytime you feel like.
Party? No Party, just a few friends having drinks. and Drums, and a P.A.
ok, it;s a party.
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Freudian Slip
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Dude you have slipped a frig'n cog! With you earlier post and now this one I don't know what to think. One can only hope that the drugs were off and you once again become lucid. If in fact you're lucky enough to be on dope and not this way permenantly you may want to revisit this BBS when sober so you can see how fucked you have become when on what ever it is you are on.
If you're not on something and you're thinking everything is cool, you may want to seek help.
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If you're not on something and you're thinking everything is cool, you may want to seek help.
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Gorty
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Freudian Slip
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I'm marking your grades from this post!
Gorty
Noooooooooooooooooooo! What ever you do, please don't pass on the results
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Gorty
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Noooooooooooooooooooo! What ever you do, please don't pass on the results
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Too late! Greg_L's has got them already!
Freudian Slip
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Too late! Greg_L's has got them already!
Damn yooooooooooooou!
You better watch your back. When you least expect it I'm going to grade you and you can bet I'll pass on the results!!!!
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Gorty
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Greg_L
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Digital drums? Are you on crack?
Mines a regular 5pc. 12 & 13" rack toms and a 16" floor tom. 2 crashes, 1 ride, and the hi-hat. It fits just fine.