space, there is no more!!!
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Posted on Apr 01, 2003 09:47 am
MyKungFu
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ok. i just moved back in with my parents (long story). I have the basement, a rough 16x12 room, but its not a perfect rectangle, some areas of the room are a little wider than 12 feet. the walls are all this plyboard type of material with stone underneth (very thin wall, 1/2 inch MAYBE. there is a fireplace with the stone exposed, like an 8 foot wall of stone with a fire place at the bottom. The celing is kinda like the material on the walls.. little thicker, and the carpets are a thin flat 70s style rug, not a schag. This is the only room in the house i may use for my recording (drums, vocals, mixing etc) except for a few oak lined closets i stole upstairs for guitar amps:) anyway.. i was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how i can section off sound so monitor signal wont bleed into the drum mics, so on and so forth. should i build a wall? should i buy one of those isolation rooms, are they worth the cash?? very limited budget. also,, what kind of material could i use to STOP THE ECHOS!!!! like ill use a few different mics and its like i can hear two different signals. im just starting to get into the computer recording thing, teaching myself as i go along so i might not be to hip to your lingo or whatever. thanks for reading my nonsense. later crackers.
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Apr 01, 2003 02:46 pm you're not the only one with a small setup. i'm sure someone here has gone thru exactly what you're trying to do. as for monitoring, why not headphones? sometimes they're your only option in a mic'ing situation where regular speakers would certainly bleed thru. as for stopping the reverb in the room, i've had some luck hanging blankets over hard surfaces. that's about all i can add
Apr 01, 2003 03:13 pm well.. i was thinking about hanging blakets over the stone, but im also considering setting up the drum set with the bass drum almost inside the fire place and putting one of those shure 52s in the drum. kind of like a pre-made tent. i read something about how page used to make tents with a few mic stands and a quilt around the outter head. so it would kinda be a stationary tent. has anyone tried this before?
mac74Show me to the beer....Member
Since: Mar 23, 2003
Apr 01, 2003 03:16 pm About 5 years ago i played with a band that used my front room for recording. The singers girlfreind had just finished an art degree and had these huge 8f x 16f canvasses. We hung them round the room to experiment and it killed the room stone dead. Cost nothing. A little claustrophobic if you were to live in it but great for recording. If you've got a artist freind ask them where you'd get these from. I assume any specialist art supplier will do them. No idea about cost though.
Mark
mac74Show me to the beer....Member
Since: Mar 23, 2003
Apr 01, 2003 03:28 pm Forgot to mention
This method was pretty good for soundproofing as well. Not one complaint from neighbours and it was a terrace.
Mark
mac74Show me to the beer....Member
Since: Mar 23, 2003
Apr 01, 2003 03:57 pm Ha Ha
I like the carpet gig. It couldn't get anymore grotesque than the art i was singing to. Plain scary. :)
Mark
Apr 01, 2003 04:01 pm how do i nail carpet to stone. we have a ton of big scraps (whole first floor just got recarpeted like 3 months ago).
mac74Show me to the beer....Member
Since: Mar 23, 2003
Apr 01, 2003 04:04 pm That belongs in a DIY forum :)
Mark
Apr 01, 2003 04:04 pm yo, no ones hero. i live about an hour outside of philly....
DanMember
Since: Nov 21, 2002
Apr 01, 2003 04:09 pm Silicon it up
Apr 01, 2003 04:31 pm doesnt that stuff take a while to set?
Apr 01, 2003 04:45 pm got lowes or home depot and ask for masonry nails. those are beast
Apr 01, 2003 07:19 pm 1) Get masonary nails perhaps?
2) Come see us sometime. Or better yet get us a show in Philly.
Apr 04, 2003 07:13 am duct tape?