What booths are you spittin in?
- Thread starter Mayo
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You can buy a booth for $1200 and $1000 is more than enough depending on how much isolation you need. If you can provide specs of your CURRENT room (the room you want to place the booth in/control room/whatever) I can steer you in the right direction. whatever you build (if you decide to build) *****DONT***** use wood as the walls.
I repeat DONT use wood.
:hgk:
I repeat DONT use wood.
:hgk:
no booth, and i get compliments on the sound quality for every song i do
technique is more important then the room in my opinion
most people have no clue where to be in the mic...how to position the mic...etc
and all it takes is practice...
i think my equip might have something big to do with it as well
the preamp i have is in my opinion one of the hottest you can have for rap recordings...
it goes from clean to warm...with a high pass filter on it...
summit audio 2ba-221
altomusic.com got mine for 480 i think...
technique is more important then the room in my opinion
most people have no clue where to be in the mic...how to position the mic...etc
and all it takes is practice...
i think my equip might have something big to do with it as well
the preamp i have is in my opinion one of the hottest you can have for rap recordings...
it goes from clean to warm...with a high pass filter on it...
summit audio 2ba-221
altomusic.com got mine for 480 i think...
TAKE MY ADVICE
Get this through your head. WOOD IS *****NOT***** TO BE USED FOR WALL'S. ***ANY*** PERSON WHO SUGGEST WOOD ***NEEDS*** TO SPEAK WITH ACOUSTIC ENGINEERS AND STUDIO BUILDERS. YOU ****DON'T***** WANT A WALL MADE OF WOOD. WHAT YOU *DO* WANT IS A "LEAF" MADE OF DRYWALL (THIS IS THE SAME AS GYPSUM BOARD AND SHEET ROCK). A "LEAF" is ***two***pieces of "MASS". Both pieces should consist of Different materials (if possible) and thickness so they don't attenuate the same frequencies. Wood is NOT a good sound absorbant as it yields a VERY LOW STC rating. If you don't know what stc ratings are hit google and type: STC RATING.
My booth walls consist of 5/8 drywall and 1/2 drywall. The drywall is connected to the studs (i used wood studs instead of metal but you can use metal), I used 2.5 Thermafiber (a certain type of insulation that will *not* be found in home depot, yard birds or OSH) between the airspace (2.5 or 3 will improve the STC rating) and went back over that with another leaf of 5/8 dry wall and 1/2 drywall. If you decide to float the floor use NEOPRENE. BTW thermafiber is the ***best*** insulation you can use.
so basically it should look like this
5/8
1/2
studs
thermafiber
1/2
5/8
I don't know anything about filling walls with sand. I don't know of anyone who has filled their walls with sand. I don't even think that would pass the firecodes and how would you run an electrical box through that?
ONCE AGAIN STAY AWAY FROM WOOD AS YOUR WALLS.
:HGK:
PS GO OVER *ALL CORNERS* (INSIDE AND OUT) WITH CORNER BEADS.
Get this through your head. WOOD IS *****NOT***** TO BE USED FOR WALL'S. ***ANY*** PERSON WHO SUGGEST WOOD ***NEEDS*** TO SPEAK WITH ACOUSTIC ENGINEERS AND STUDIO BUILDERS. YOU ****DON'T***** WANT A WALL MADE OF WOOD. WHAT YOU *DO* WANT IS A "LEAF" MADE OF DRYWALL (THIS IS THE SAME AS GYPSUM BOARD AND SHEET ROCK). A "LEAF" is ***two***pieces of "MASS". Both pieces should consist of Different materials (if possible) and thickness so they don't attenuate the same frequencies. Wood is NOT a good sound absorbant as it yields a VERY LOW STC rating. If you don't know what stc ratings are hit google and type: STC RATING.
My booth walls consist of 5/8 drywall and 1/2 drywall. The drywall is connected to the studs (i used wood studs instead of metal but you can use metal), I used 2.5 Thermafiber (a certain type of insulation that will *not* be found in home depot, yard birds or OSH) between the airspace (2.5 or 3 will improve the STC rating) and went back over that with another leaf of 5/8 dry wall and 1/2 drywall. If you decide to float the floor use NEOPRENE. BTW thermafiber is the ***best*** insulation you can use.
so basically it should look like this
5/8
1/2
studs
thermafiber
1/2
5/8
I don't know anything about filling walls with sand. I don't know of anyone who has filled their walls with sand. I don't even think that would pass the firecodes and how would you run an electrical box through that?
ONCE AGAIN STAY AWAY FROM WOOD AS YOUR WALLS.
:HGK:
PS GO OVER *ALL CORNERS* (INSIDE AND OUT) WITH CORNER BEADS.
the best known local studio has walls of stone in the studios... i always thought that was interesting
http://www.chapmanrecording.com
http://www.chapmanrecording.com
SAND *CAN* BE USED IN WALLS BUT IT'S USUALLY USED FOR WALLS MADE OF CONCRETE AND FLOORS (NOT WOOD). AS IT STANDS YOU WILL GET A BETTER STC RATING WITH THERMAFIBER. YOU SHOULD ALSO USE ******RIGID FIBERGLASS****** INSTEAD OF ACOUSTIC FOAM (FOR THE INSIDE OF THE BOOTH). IT ABSORBS TWICE AS MUCH, COSTS WAY LESS BUT LOOKS UGLY AS HELL. YOU HAVE TO KEEP IT COVERED SO IT WON'T FLY ALL AROUND THE PLACE AND INHALED INTO YOUR LUNGS.
LOOK IT UP ON GOOGLE: RIGID FIBERGLASS
ALSO HIT GOOGLE AND TYPE: USG HAND BOOK
***ANYONE*** LOOKING/WANTING TO CONSTRUCT A BOOTH SHOULD READ THIS BOOK BEFORE THEY START OR WASTE MONEY ON MATERIALS.
BE COOL.
:HGK:
LOOK IT UP ON GOOGLE: RIGID FIBERGLASS
ALSO HIT GOOGLE AND TYPE: USG HAND BOOK
***ANYONE*** LOOKING/WANTING TO CONSTRUCT A BOOTH SHOULD READ THIS BOOK BEFORE THEY START OR WASTE MONEY ON MATERIALS.
BE COOL.
:HGK: