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Wood floors in studio good bad or depends?
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in spite of the idea that many up and coming "auralex" studios might present..
wood is awesome.
playing in a properly tuned wood room sounds amazing. it's the sound of many awesome records for the past 50 years.
wood is awesome.
playing in a properly tuned wood room sounds amazing. it's the sound of many awesome records for the past 50 years.
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Oscar Wilde
Failed audio engineer & pro studio tech turned Component level motherboard repair store in New York
Wow, that makes me feel A LOT better. I was reading some article and some guy was going off about how wood was bad and it really did not make sense and this guy had a lot of odd ideas.I did not really take it seriously but I like playing my guitar in a room thats fully wood floors. It is real maple flooring, not the laminated garbage either.
About the correctly treated room part. I have another post that I put up with my very artistic diagram of the area I have now, to setup and record but I do not know how to treat a room. I have a lot of foam and some sound blankets. I know I will need bass traps, but in ever corner? I think I am going to build my own bass traps.
I think foaming out a closet and doing vocals in it should be good (at least rick ruben thinks so hahaha).
I was also thinking about building an iso booth.
Should I do anything with the ceilings?
Thanks for the help
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About the correctly treated room part. I have another post that I put up with my very artistic diagram of the area I have now, to setup and record but I do not know how to treat a room. I have a lot of foam and some sound blankets. I know I will need bass traps, but in ever corner? I think I am going to build my own bass traps.
I think foaming out a closet and doing vocals in it should be good (at least rick ruben thinks so hahaha).
I was also thinking about building an iso booth.
Should I do anything with the ceilings?
Thanks for the help
Cheers
The Wolf
booHoly Wolf wrote:I think foaming out a closet and doing vocals in it should be good (at least rick ruben thinks so hahaha).
fuck foam.
use carpet. it sounds more natural, IMO, than that auralex garbage that adds a boxy, honky, dead quality to every room covered in it.
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Most of the frequencies that come from the average human voice get eaten up by carpet. There will be minimal reflection. Thicker carpet is better, but when you're going for a dead space the science is way less important than understanding reflections in a live room. Don't crunch the numbers just toss some carpet up and sing in there. You'll probably be set.
If you have hard floor (good), then you will definitely want absorption on the ceiling above it. For more on this, see the Hard Floor, Soft Ceiling section of Ethan's Acoustics FAQ.
Wood sounds good when used correctly, it is mostly reflective. Wood floors generally don't sound too different from concrete floors or linoleum. Many old-school studios use slot resonators built from wood, which adds another tone entirely.
I disagree that most of the frequencies that come from the average human voice get eaten up by carpet. Most carpet does nothing at all from somewhere in the upper midrange on down (depending on how thick the carpet is, and what the material is). No carpet that I know of has any effect at all from the midbass on down.
If you want to treat a vocal booth, I recommend bass trapping and full range absorption. Though in most instances, I don't recommend building a vocal booth for the average home studio.
Wood sounds good when used correctly, it is mostly reflective. Wood floors generally don't sound too different from concrete floors or linoleum. Many old-school studios use slot resonators built from wood, which adds another tone entirely.
I disagree that most of the frequencies that come from the average human voice get eaten up by carpet. Most carpet does nothing at all from somewhere in the upper midrange on down (depending on how thick the carpet is, and what the material is). No carpet that I know of has any effect at all from the midbass on down.
If you want to treat a vocal booth, I recommend bass trapping and full range absorption. Though in most instances, I don't recommend building a vocal booth for the average home studio.
So in a closet, I dont have much room to bass trap it, can I just use foam and foam the hell out of it? thanksJWL wrote:If you have hard floor (good), then you will definitely want absorption on the ceiling above it. For more on this, see the Hard Floor, Soft Ceiling section of Ethan's Acoustics FAQ.
Wood sounds good when used correctly, it is mostly reflective. Wood floors generally don't sound too different from concrete floors or linoleum. Many old-school studios use slot resonators built from wood, which adds another tone entirely.
I disagree that most of the frequencies that come from the average human voice get eaten up by carpet. Most carpet does nothing at all from somewhere in the upper midrange on down (depending on how thick the carpet is, and what the material is). No carpet that I know of has any effect at all from the midbass on down.
If you want to treat a vocal booth, I recommend bass trapping and full range absorption. Though in most instances, I don't recommend building a vocal booth for the average home studio.
Well, you could. That doesn't mean you should.Holy Wolf wrote:So in a closet, I dont have much room to bass trap it, can I just use foam and foam the hell out of it? thanks
Or more accurately, I wouldn't *only* treat the room with foam. I'd put 4-6" of rockwool, cotton, or fiberglass on the ceiling, preferably spaced down from the ceiling 4-6". Cover that with cloth. There, you have bass trapping.
Then you can use foam on the walls to deaden it, though I think a thin layer of rigid fiberglass (1") would be more effective, and would take up a bit less of the room space.
ok so with the fiberglass on the wall, is that all I would put up? Would that be good to breathe in? have a brand recommendation?JWL wrote:Well, you could. That doesn't mean you should.Holy Wolf wrote:So in a closet, I dont have much room to bass trap it, can I just use foam and foam the hell out of it? thanks
Or more accurately, I wouldn't *only* treat the room with foam. I'd put 4-6" of rockwool, cotton, or fiberglass on the ceiling, preferably spaced down from the ceiling 4-6". Cover that with cloth. There, you have bass trapping.
Then you can use foam on the walls to deaden it, though I think a thin layer of rigid fiberglass (1") would be more effective, and would take up a bit less of the room space.
thanks
if you're worried about health issues, may i recommend UltraTouch. good stuff, WAY easier to work with than fiberglass.Holy Wolf wrote:ok so with the fiberglass on the wall, is that all I would put up? Would that be good to breathe in? have a brand recommendation?
thanks
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