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by Uncle Dub
Sat Jul 02, 2011 8:04 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Build inside a steel shed, starting it right
Replies: 17
Views: 10638

Still waiting on a call back from the foamers, but I'm thinking, in terms of reflections, am I better building drywall walls, with inslation on the exterior, or leaving the raw steel walls, and if not foam, maybe fiberglass or polystyrene panels exposed on it?
by Uncle Dub
Wed Jun 29, 2011 11:41 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Build inside a steel shed, starting it right
Replies: 17
Views: 10638

Hmm, there is an outfit in town that do it, wonder if it's worth asking for a quote.
by Uncle Dub
Tue Jun 28, 2011 6:09 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Build inside a steel shed, starting it right
Replies: 17
Views: 10638

Damn, that really looks good and I would love to have the shed left in the round, but I'm seeing like $600 for 600 bd ft. for that insulation stuff, even if I cut back my plans to 1/4 of the space instead of a half thats $2500 gone.

Where did you get it from?
by Uncle Dub
Tue Jun 28, 2011 12:25 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Build inside a steel shed, starting it right
Replies: 17
Views: 10638

Ooh, that looks very cool, what did you use on the walls, some kind of spray on insulation? My main thing is finance, I can't afford the $6-10K for a concrete slab of such size, and it's a dirt floor. I suppose I could do a deck floor wall to wall and then spray the walls, but a twenty foot ceiling ...
by Uncle Dub
Tue Jun 28, 2011 6:47 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Build inside a steel shed, starting it right
Replies: 17
Views: 10638

I'd like to have the lofty claim of seasonal insulative reasons, but it's mainly cost. I've been in this place a few years now, and not done anything with the shed, because it wasn't floored, and doesn't have power (though that I can fix), but to even get half of it concreted looked to be an expensi...
by Uncle Dub
Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:46 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Build inside a steel shed, starting it right
Replies: 17
Views: 10638

There was the M.I.K.E. article or the Great Lake Swimmers? M.I.K.E. was a circular bin, split down the middle, and they just walled the thing with panels, it's main thing was portability I think. GLS just recorded in an old grain bin. In my case, I think the steel is more incidental, I won't be moun...
by Uncle Dub
Mon Jun 27, 2011 5:43 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Build inside a steel shed, starting it right
Replies: 17
Views: 10638

Build inside a steel shed, starting it right

I'm planning to move my recording setup from my basement, to a space to be built inside a large (40'x80') quonset hut in my yard. It'll be a practice space / open plan recording area / possible performance space. t'll be a 'deck' like construction above a dirt floor, as it's too expensive to concret...
by Uncle Dub
Sat Dec 12, 2009 9:11 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Pro-Tools Free Replacement / Substitutes?
Replies: 5
Views: 2363

Mainly because PTF will only run on the old 95 based versions of Windows, the NT based ones will not run PTF.

So it's M-Audio, MBox or nothing for Pro-Tools?

What happens if I finally buy the MOTU 24io I've had my eye on for my main setup, am I only able to use Digital Performer with it?
by Uncle Dub
Fri Dec 11, 2009 10:08 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Pro-Tools Free Replacement / Substitutes?
Replies: 5
Views: 2363

Pro-Tools Free Replacement / Substitutes?

So my little Sony Vaio laptop, which I've left running Windows ME crashed and had to be re-installed, and I can't find my CD-R of Pro-Tools free. I run M-Powered on my main machine but have been using the laptop, PTF and an off-brand USB interface for making 'field' recordings. So what are my altern...
by Uncle Dub
Sun Apr 26, 2009 4:30 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: SM57 mod
Replies: 22
Views: 16194

Today I was salvaging the transformer from a '57 for another project, I found rather than boiling it in a pan of water, after removing the capsule and XLR, I put it in the oven on a piece of foil for 15 minutes at the lowest setting the oven had, 150 degrees Farenheit, and the transformer just pulle...
by Uncle Dub
Thu Dec 04, 2008 11:51 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: acoustic 360 bass .. miking that sucker??
Replies: 15
Views: 9059

I'm sure that could be arranged, which venue do you work at, and how do they get in contact? They're looking for places to play.
by Uncle Dub
Wed Dec 03, 2008 11:00 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: acoustic 360 bass .. miking that sucker??
Replies: 15
Views: 9059

Don't know how much of a difference it will make, the Acoustic Cab is a W-Bin design, whereas the T-18 is an compact scoop, so the rear of the driver is accessible, it hangs down in front of the horn. Does that alter any of your ideas for a mic technique? Generic pic follows: http://www.copystars.co...
by Uncle Dub
Tue Dec 02, 2008 8:34 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: acoustic 360 bass .. miking that sucker??
Replies: 15
Views: 9059

I had thought maybe a PZM on a large board in a 'sweet spot' a few feet in front and ask the bass player to stand out the way if he could?
by Uncle Dub
Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:59 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: acoustic 360 bass .. miking that sucker??
Replies: 15
Views: 9059

Here we go rejuvenating an old thread. I have the same issue here, a bass player, who plays with large amounts of feedback (it's a fuzzy 70's rock kind of band), and uses a folded horn (an EV T-18 ) which seems essential to his playing style. I can get a decent signal from the DI out from the amp, a...
by Uncle Dub
Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:50 pm
Forum: Tape Op Magazine
Topic: Current Cover Art Gear Geeking Question
Replies: 0
Views: 2391

Current Cover Art Gear Geeking Question

Probably a long shot, but on this months cover is a stairway with the speakers on each stair, on the 4th step up is a speaker with a giant 3" magnet held in place by three large panhead screws (I'm guessing) and almost heart shaped cutouts in the stamped frame. Does anyone know the origin or manufac...