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Harvey Gerst
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Well, I'm flattered but our "B" studio is hardly a $30K investment - it's two small 10' x 11' bedrooms, converted to a studio and drum room, in a doublewide mobile home.chessrock said:It all depends on the accoustics of your room, Rush.
It's easy for Harvey and others like him to gush over the sound of a small-diaph. omni-directional condenser because it brings out the lush sound usually achieved by a substatial investment (well over $30K, I would imagine) in accoustical design, treatment, and reinforcement.
We tore out the dividing wall and replaced it with 2"x6"s, heavily reinforced, and tore apart a couple of sliding glass doors to make the window between the rooms.
My son Alex found some almost new carpet in a dumpster behind a big hotel, and we covered the 6" thick wall after putting 3/4" MDF particle board on the studs. The ceiling is only 7' tall. We mounted six 6' office divider panels (we got for $5 each) to swingout "L" brackets I bought at the hardware store for $1.79 each. The panels have Corning 603 sound deadening insulation in them.
I was pretty creative in the control room, building a 6" raised floor (that was open at one end to act as bass traps). We used some old wooden pallets that we found in back of a store and covered that with 3/4" MDF.
We've cut some serious stuff in the small room and had some serious radio play nationally off a few records.
But our room treatment didn't cost $30K; it was probably less than $300.