Hello chris, sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. I've been very busy with "honey can you do this"
Know what I mean?
Have you had success putting a drum kit in and recording it? What do you do about controlling
Good grief no
My wife would...ah ...lets say be not pleased. Ha! Chris, I'm just an old fart musician with a small bedroom studio to keep in touch with music. I will build my real studio next year. This is just using what I have temporarily. I'm not the person to ask the acoustical questions..I make a fool out myself enough as it is. But what I AM going to do is buy some 4" 703 panels and experiment with placement. Did you read my reply above about the patch placement. Apparently, it is true. I asked on another forum yesterday. Soooooo..given the fact that my current room is NOT a true recording environment, what the hell. I am going to go back and search all I can on the subjects of bass traps, slat absobers(or is that slot absorber
)diffusers and do a bunch of reading, ask some more dumb questions, AND THEN BUILD THEM for cryin out loud. I'm tired of talking about it. Not for here mind you. But I will bring them in this room and see. I CAN tell you this. I AM NOT an experienced person when it comes to this shit. Building yes. Acoustics no. But I learned something 2 months ago. Have you ever heard the term LEDE? It stands for LIVE END DEAD END. It is a principle whereby one end of a room is completely dead(703 or foam) and the other end is live and diffused. A lot of studios used LEDE in the 80's as it was a way to qualify the room with measurment and was certified by a company so clients KNEW it met certain acoustical criteria. At least that was the idea. Apparently, that was only one of many designs. Mr. Sayer has his own qualified opinion regarding this. Anyway, I was invited over to a local studio by the owner who is the moderater on the mic forum here. He goes by RECORDING ENGINEER. Very nice gentleman. So, I go over and walk into his control room and WOW! The sound was incredible. There was none. Transparent as glass. It was f....g amazing. I mean WOW1. Well that did it. I was convinced about 703. The front end of his control room was completely engulfed in fabric covered 4" 703 panels. The front, sidewalls(splayed) and ceiling. Right up paralell to the console. Like LEDE The rear of the room was painted sheetrock, although because of space limitations the rear wall was not symetrical. And this is NOT a critique of his room. I thought it was fantastic. Of course, I'm a nobody and am not qualified to comment on ANYTHING regarding acoustics pro or con. All I know is it was great to me. Beat the shit out of a regular ole bedroom like mine
So all I AM trying to say is JOHN SAYERS is RIGHT ON. Why spend the outragous amount of money they charge for those foam products, when you can get BETTER absorption with a cheaper product. But placement is another animal. Do some reading. Or maybe someone will offer a suggestion here...JOHN, KNIGHTFLY...someone... I hate to say anything cause I AIN"T QUALIFIED!!!
Ok, I've stuck my foot far enough in now.....wait a minute, I have an experiment for you. Go into your room. Sit where your going to sit at the console. Close your eyes.
Have someone walk over to behind you while holding a board about 18" x 24". Standing behind you, have them bring the board slowly around in front of your face left to right.KEEP YOUR EYES CLOSED. What do you hear. Tell me later. You couldn't hear that in the studio I told you about. Because there were NO REFLECTIONS. Reflections are what your ears tell you about the space around you. Go out into a forest and talk. Man, in a forest of pine or fir trees there is vERY LITTLE REFLECTIONS.
Cause of all the absorpsion on the ground and trees from the needles. They act just like 703. Its called(excuse me knightfly) interstises..I think thats it.
fitz
oh btw, my dimensions are 9'2" x 11'3" with regular ole 8' ceilings. Arggggggrrrr!!!
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