Track Rat
Just Your Average Sized Member
Looks GREAT so far sir. Makes me want to re-build my rooms just to have something cool to do. 
M
Mahem
New member
Hey
T-Mix thanks for the response, and your studio is lookin very good by the way. But as far as this 3rd leaf thing goes... if everything is tight i dont see how it could not work... I agree with you though on the weight of the drywall, that was somthing i didn't consider... Im not exactly trying achieve 100 percent isolation, just enough so that the neighbors dont hear me during late-night sessions. The house itself muffles the sound quite well (i mostly hear bass when im outside) but im on top of a hill so... i dont want to project sound down throughout the neighborhood. I'll test it out before i drywall over it and i'll take pictures to give you a better idea once i've made some more progress. thanx
T-Mix thanks for the response, and your studio is lookin very good by the way. But as far as this 3rd leaf thing goes... if everything is tight i dont see how it could not work... I agree with you though on the weight of the drywall, that was somthing i didn't consider... Im not exactly trying achieve 100 percent isolation, just enough so that the neighbors dont hear me during late-night sessions. The house itself muffles the sound quite well (i mostly hear bass when im outside) but im on top of a hill so... i dont want to project sound down throughout the neighborhood. I'll test it out before i drywall over it and i'll take pictures to give you a better idea once i've made some more progress. thanx
T
tmix
Well-known member
more pics
Well,
I moved into the main room last night and took some crappy pictures.
I am just excited I guess.
Here is what the main recording / mix room looks like.. with crap everywhere.
In the mix nook the 4 side panels lift off the rails and reveal the vocal booth windows and drum booth windows when I am tracking.
On ward to the drum booth!
Tom
Well,
I moved into the main room last night and took some crappy pictures.
I am just excited I guess.
Here is what the main recording / mix room looks like.. with crap everywhere.
In the mix nook the 4 side panels lift off the rails and reveal the vocal booth windows and drum booth windows when I am tracking.
On ward to the drum booth!
Tom
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EdWonbass
pull the goalie
You just think you're so cool with your new studio. I have a studio too and it has 2 rooms plus the control room. It has a kitchen and a bathroom. It's way better than your crappy little studio.
OK actually it's my garage and the two rooms are the kitchen and the bathroom.The garage is right off of the kitchen, and because it's in my house there is technically a bathroom.
Your studio is way cooler than mine and I'm sorry I just got a little jealous.
It looks great!! I keep telling my wife that she needs to work a part time job along with her regular job so that we can move into a bigger house with a huge basement so I can build a bigger studio. I would get the part time job but I would be way too busy with the studio.
OK actually it's my garage and the two rooms are the kitchen and the bathroom.The garage is right off of the kitchen, and because it's in my house there is technically a bathroom.
Your studio is way cooler than mine and I'm sorry I just got a little jealous.
It looks great!! I keep telling my wife that she needs to work a part time job along with her regular job so that we can move into a bigger house with a huge basement so I can build a bigger studio. I would get the part time job but I would be way too busy with the studio.
scrubs
Not of sound mind
So, how does it sound in there? 
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tmix
Well-known member
ha ha ha !
Ed !
You made me laugh! Yeah mine does not have a kitchen, but is does have a restroom. My wife was so sick of stinkin" musicians trailing through the house at all hours to stink up our bathrooms.
Scrubs,
It really sounds different.
For one thing, it is incredibly quiet. You has hear the blood rushing in your ears.
My old place was very dead, this one is on the edge of being really live.
Because of that, I am not confident yet as to how that is going to translate yet to what the mics hear. The mixing nook sounds excellent. The imaging is excellent, 3 dimensional, a huge phantom center image. It is a more live so I can't stand putting much reverbs on stuff. I have yet to mix something and see how it translates.
Hopefully pretty quick I'll get the chance to record something meaningful and post it.
One thing for sure. The impact of how vibrant acoustic instruments sounds is very noticible. You can clap your hands and set the drums and cymbals to ringing. Since everything is mostly airtight and walls so thick the energy inside the room is startling. I hope it translates to a powerful sound as opposed to a messy sound.
I'll get back with my verdict.
Tom
Ed !
You made me laugh! Yeah mine does not have a kitchen, but is does have a restroom. My wife was so sick of stinkin" musicians trailing through the house at all hours to stink up our bathrooms.
Scrubs,
It really sounds different.
For one thing, it is incredibly quiet. You has hear the blood rushing in your ears.
My old place was very dead, this one is on the edge of being really live.
Because of that, I am not confident yet as to how that is going to translate yet to what the mics hear. The mixing nook sounds excellent. The imaging is excellent, 3 dimensional, a huge phantom center image. It is a more live so I can't stand putting much reverbs on stuff. I have yet to mix something and see how it translates.
Hopefully pretty quick I'll get the chance to record something meaningful and post it.
One thing for sure. The impact of how vibrant acoustic instruments sounds is very noticible. You can clap your hands and set the drums and cymbals to ringing. Since everything is mostly airtight and walls so thick the energy inside the room is startling. I hope it translates to a powerful sound as opposed to a messy sound.
I'll get back with my verdict.
Tom
VSpaceBoy
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tmix said:
There is your answer.
Mics will make whatever your ears hear that much worse. Chances are that you'll need room treatments to tame the flutter echo and (probably) bass trapping to deal with the bass thats caught in the room.
pandamonk
Well-known member
You not seen his pictures?VSpaceBoy said:
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tmix
Well-known member
Thanks Pandamonk
I was going to point that out....
I have acoustic treatments (about 30 pieces 6 to 8 foot panels), and 2 superchunk bass absorbers.
It is not reflections bouncing, it is displaced acoustic energy causing other things to excite (except me that is).
I am sure there is more to be done, I just need to see how things record and go from there.
Tom
I was going to point that out....
I have acoustic treatments (about 30 pieces 6 to 8 foot panels), and 2 superchunk bass absorbers.
It is not reflections bouncing, it is displaced acoustic energy causing other things to excite (except me that is).
I am sure there is more to be done, I just need to see how things record and go from there.
Tom
pandamonk
Well-known member
I actually thought you might have too much absorption... That it might be too dead. But yeah it looks really good. With the drums ringing, why not dismantle the drums when they're not in use/try a large heavy sheet or curtain over them.tmix said:
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tmix
Well-known member
That is pretty much what I decided to do.
Since it is a rack set up,
I can pile up the toms and cymbols in the storage room when I am tracking other stuff.
Another thing is , once the drum booth is done I'll probably throw them in there when I am not rehearsing with the band I play with.
Off to start on the vocal booth!
Since it is a rack set up,
I can pile up the toms and cymbols in the storage room when I am tracking other stuff.
Another thing is , once the drum booth is done I'll probably throw them in there when I am not rehearsing with the band I play with.
Off to start on the vocal booth!
VSpaceBoy
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pandamonk said:
Oh..
I only saw the ones posted in the thread, not the ones attached.
I see you have alot of panels on the wall. I wouldn't guess you're getting alot of flutter then. If your hearing other things resonate in the room, thats not going to be because of the energy trapped in there with all of the 703 panels.
I guess I'm not sure what you're talking about when you say that you can set the drums to a handclap.
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tmix
Well-known member
VSpaceBoy,
I am not really good at explaining my thoughts some times.
But here is my theory anyway.
The room is really airtight, I mean you open a door and other doors in the room pop open and closed.
I can open the front door and the vent flapper in the bathroom flutters.
Couple that with the fact that there is over an 1 and 1/4th inches of drywall and texturing on top of that and it seems that all the energy of the sound stays inside affecting everything else in the room rather than moving out through the walls to the out side world.
Hopefully I will be able to trap the stray acoustic energy from bouncing around and making it back into a mic, but I can literally hum a note, and when I reach the note of an open guitar string nearby, the guitar string resonates. Likewise when I make a sharp transient clap it starts the drums heads to sympathetically resonate like I softly hit them.
I guess my old place leaked like a sieve and I never had this problem.
I say it is a problem, it really isn't, I just need to take it into consideration when tracking . I need to move unnecessary things out of the room.
Anyway, enough boring stuff!
Thanks for looking!
Tom
I am not really good at explaining my thoughts some times.
But here is my theory anyway.
The room is really airtight, I mean you open a door and other doors in the room pop open and closed.
I can open the front door and the vent flapper in the bathroom flutters.
Couple that with the fact that there is over an 1 and 1/4th inches of drywall and texturing on top of that and it seems that all the energy of the sound stays inside affecting everything else in the room rather than moving out through the walls to the out side world.
Hopefully I will be able to trap the stray acoustic energy from bouncing around and making it back into a mic, but I can literally hum a note, and when I reach the note of an open guitar string nearby, the guitar string resonates. Likewise when I make a sharp transient clap it starts the drums heads to sympathetically resonate like I softly hit them.
I guess my old place leaked like a sieve and I never had this problem.
I say it is a problem, it really isn't, I just need to take it into consideration when tracking . I need to move unnecessary things out of the room.
Anyway, enough boring stuff!
Thanks for looking!
Tom