speaking of the studio floor....

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Dogbreath

Dogbreath

Im an ex-spurt
OK...
My jam room is in my garage...concrete covered with carpet.
I know that a hard floor is better than carpet but I also live in the high plains desert. Which means it gets damn cold in the winter....which is why I put carpet down in the first place. The concrete got pretty damned cold on my feetses.

I'm thinkin of rippin it back up but am wondering what options I've got so it's not so damned cold. What would you do?

Thoughts?
Thanks... :drunk:
 
Except for floor heating... if you can spare the floor to ceiling height, 10-15 centimeter insulation then hardwood floor?
Even if you'd lay down just hardwood floor on the concrete, you'd still have a rug at the listening position, for your feet, and acoustics?

EDIT: Oh, it's a jam room, you might not have a listening position then, but still, you could have some rugs here and there.
 
kingsmen said:
Except for floor heating... if you can spare the floor to ceiling height, 10-15 centimeter insulation then hardwood floor?
Even if you'd lay down just hardwood floor on the concrete, you'd still have a rug at the listening position, for your feet, and acoustics?

EDIT: Oh, it's a jam room, you might not have a listening position then, but still, you could have some rugs here and there.
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no no...you had it right....it's my "studio"...just a small one. :D

Are you thinkin insulation on the concrete then hardwood? If so, what would keep it from squishing? Even if I used the rigid stuff...?
 
You would have to build a wooden framework on top of the concrete, fill it with insulation and lay hardwood on top of that.
I'm honestly not sure how much warmer your floor would be though, might be a lot of work for nothing... well, not for nothing, the hardwood floor would give you better acoustics.
 
ahh..I getcha.
I could do that. I'll go do some googlin and see what I can see about the material itself.

Peace mang
 
And it looks pretty much like ya just said.
Build a frame, fill it with insulation and hardwood on top of that.
Yer pretty good.
:D
 
which brings me to my next question....

how much better of a quality should I expect from my tracking? mixing? 10%? 20%?
I know it's pretty subjective but I'm wondering if it'd be worth it to break all my shit back down, move it out, spend the money n time etc...

Also bear in mind, it's already trapped (6 of em) and superchunked (4 of em) with gobo's and a cloud above my desk and a 10 foot ceiling peak.

What do ya think?
 
No idea man...
All I know, a hardwood floor compared to a carpeted one, will make the room more lively, how much more lively is something you can control with rugs. Do you have a problem with the room being too dead now?
 
kingsmen said:
No idea man...
All I know, a hardwood floor compared to a carpeted one, will make the room more lively, how much more lively is something you can control with rugs. Do you have a problem with the room being too dead now?
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yeah, maybe a bit. But I'm not sure if that's cuz I'm a mixing tard :D or an inferior room.
I dunno...just flyin by the seat of my pants here....
 
Do your mixes sound muddy or lacking a bit high frequency when you check em on other systems?
Do you find you either have added too much reverb to instruments/drums/vocals, or that there's too little?
 
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that's the gist.

I'm just lookin for more punch and clarity and am still not sure if it's my mixing "skillz" or my room not translating. They DO sound better in my room tho.

I dunno.....
 
IDK DB ..... *A fare toll* didn't sound that bad at all!

Are you sure you want to go through all of that?
 
moresound said:
IDK DB ..... *A fare toll* didn't sound that bad at all!

Are you sure you want to go through all of that?
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that's just it...I dunno.

Fare Toll is drums from my sequencer. The others have live drums.
So what is it?!?
More work on my drum micing? tuning? I just mixed that one different?
My shit is so "hit n miss" it's frustrating.

I've got 2 others I was gonna load up at LF but meh....I just don't know where the problem is.
I figgered maybe I'm just not hearing it right. Hence this thread.

All I know is it sounds better in my head than whats playin back thru my stereo. :mad:

(thanks man ;) )
 
Well for drum micing you can always put down a sheet (or two) of plywood over the rug just to experiment.
 
moresound said:
Well for drum micing you can always put down a sheet (or two) of plywood over the rug just to experiment.
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and that's what occurred to me last nite. I'll try that first and see if it helps.
 
I would suggest trying to work with your neighbors, either make personal visits to a manager at each office or invite them all to an open house. Try and establish a dialog with each location, oftentimes this is all it takes to create a good working relationship.

I would warn you to be very careful about making assumptions about their prejudice. While this is common it can setup boundaries to communication that can be difficult to overcome.
 
EvelynArado said:
I would suggest trying to work with your neighbors, either make personal visits to a manager at each office or invite them all to an open house. Try and establish a dialog with each location, oftentimes this is all it takes to create a good working relationship.

I would warn you to be very careful about making assumptions about their prejudice. While this is common it can setup boundaries to communication that can be difficult to overcome.
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Cool.
Got it. Makes perfect sense.

:D
 
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