The Matress Trick Works!!

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Whasup folks. I finally tried the "matress trick" for recording vocals. I put the matress in the corner parellel to the wall and propped it up with some boxes. The chair in the corner acted as the bass trap, lol. I draped a heavy sleeping bag on the matress, which was behind the mic. Best sounding vocals i've ever recorded!! I got the dry sound i was looking for without the boxed up sound of recording in the closet. Perfect! The way i have the matress set up it is kinda in front of my monitors and it killed alot of reflections going on there also. Sounds great. Now all i need it some studio monitor stands. I don't have the dough for those right now, so i'm just gonna get some very sturdy tall stools to place them on. I love this DIY stuff.
 
alright...sounds like it got the results.

a mattress is a lot of dampening material, one heavy piece. I suppose if some company slapped a PRO STUDIO SOUND-DAMPENING DEVICE on the mattress Guitar Center would sell them quadruple the price.

the mattress definitely makes a "sound difference".. :p :rolleyes:


and mattresses are usually FIRE RETARDANT.

Watched the movie the Temptations and they go to the Hitsville- B. Gordy house....it was a house, with a primitive recording setup. Probably using mattresses back then???....no one had invented foam yet!?

How did people create all that good music without Auralex? :confused:



Look up the PVC Monitor stands too....their a easy DIY and about 25cents on the dollar for stands.
 
The real question is, what sleep number did you use? :D

G.
 
SouthSIDE Glen said:
The real question is, what sleep number did you use? :D

G.
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No the real question is who's made a good recording WITH auralex?
 
I use a mattress too for acoustic guitar, or just record into a closet full of clothes. Both work good, but I think the mattress works better.
 
I'd try it, but I have a California King! :eek:

No sense getting a hernia just to get a better vocal... :rolleyes:
 
Rokket said:
I'd try it, but I have a California King! :eek:

No sense getting a hernia just to get a better vocal... :rolleyes:
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Nah just lay flat underneath it and reach your mic in there with a boom stand, gives you a nice tight sound. :D
 
Rokket said:
No sense getting a hernia just to get a better vocal... :rolleyes:
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Yeah, but just think of the high notes you could hit! ;) :D

G.
 
I knew a garage band. They practiced in a...that's right, a garage. It was in a residential neighborhood where loud music was a problem. They went around and bought up all the old matresses they could find, and lined the entire garage with matresses. It actually worked pretty well.
 
dweeb said:
I knew a garage band. They practiced in a...that's right, a garage. It was in a residential neighborhood where loud music was a problem. They went around and bought up all the old matresses they could find, and lined the entire garage with matresses. It actually worked pretty well.
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I think the mattress discussion was in regards to acoustic treatment, not isolation although I'm sure they'd work great for that too.
 
I got a queen size matress so it wasn't that heavy. I can already feel the jokes coming. Anyway, it worked better than i thought i would. I'd heard of it before just never tried it.
 
I'm just relieved that you've finally decided to come out of the closet.

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the first time i saw it was some mtv thing, there was a shot of little john (seriously) crawling out of a vox booth made of matresses.
was probably a 2500$ mic hidden in thoes matresses.
 
Mattreses, pillows, heavily padded furnature, blankets... sometimes almost anything heavily padded has been used to provide the extra buffer we all need on occasion. Once we overcome the idea of "how it looks," and focus more on "how it sounds," we become open to trying all sorts of things. Pro studios have all sorts of devices for sound absorbtion, us guys at home have to use whatever we happen to have. IMO it may not be pretty, but if it improves the sound, then it is the right thing to do.
 
when I lived in a place where I could play drums, I always pointed the bass drum at the couch, and it made a huge difference in the recording if the couch wasn't there.
 
i've got a Sterns & Foster King which is super thick. I always wanted to see how much sound it would absorb in the studio, but wifee would throw a sh!t fit.
 
jonnyc said:
I think the mattress discussion was in regards to acoustic treatment, not isolation although I'm sure they'd work great for that too.
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Ya but I bet I can piss farther than you! :D
 
I recorded in a shoe box once, lined with bellybutton fluff it was.

Best damn piccolo sound I ever got. :(
 
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