anyway,
I am in the middle of making a chamber underneath Studio G Brooklyn, and the targeted decay time is at least 2 seconds.
I have never purpose built a chamber, i have only appropriated pre-existing stairwells and basements and other assorted spaces including the live room during mixing to get a "real" ambient feel to things tracked in less than ideal spaces. (or too simply add some great sounding, unique verb).
I will update this thread as i go, including some pictures of the most disgusting space you have ever seen outside of the hellraiser movies, and what I am attempting to do with it.
I will probably wind up with a few galvanised trash cans hanging from the ceiling for diffusion and to extend the decay time a bit.
The room in the basement i am using is directly under the live room at Studio G.
It is cement and brick throughout, with some mystery nightmare of a ceiling right now along with some nasty spiders... I really just want to ask people that make swimming pools to go in and skim coat the whole thing and seal it up, but it turns out they get paid a lot of money....
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Construction wise,I also would really like to try this myself, so unfortunately for my assistant and intern: we are going for it.
Step one has been to paint the hell out of the brick surfaces. Its going to take like 39 coats where I thought it was going to take 2. The brick is old and thirsty, and stuff is flaking off as we roll the high gloss white paint onto it. Some of the cement surfaces worked fine, but the brick is barfing 100 years of neglect onto our super giant nap rollers as we paint.
This room used to have the heating oil tank in it, so it is SUPER toxic smelling in there, and not very fun to be in for more than like 30 minutes (if at all, depending on what you think is "fun").
The first coat is drying and awaits the 3 million more, but while we get that stuff happening, we are going to get some sheet metal hanging up and a few trash cans and wire it all up and just listen, because it already sounds pretty awesome in there.
I will update this when we either get the speaker/mic stuff happening or we all throw up from the fumes and say fuck it.