Building My New Studio

digitaldrummer · Post by **digitaldrummer** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 5:39 pm

posted some new pictures.

www.digitaldrummer.net/studiobuild/

JWL · Post by **JWL** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:17 pm

sweet!

roscoenyc · Post by **roscoenyc** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:05 am

Looks just great!

digitaldrummer · Post by **digitaldrummer** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 7:45 pm

getting stuff moved in now! new pics too.

www.digitaldrummer.net/studiobuild/

JWL · Post by **JWL** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 11:29 pm

sweet! really close now....

BenjaminWells · Post by **BenjaminWells** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 12:04 am

Looks great. Way to go! Congrats.

thegeek · Post by **thegeek** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 4:36 pm

I noticed in one of your pictures that you have a your overheads covered with a rag of some kind. Is that just to protect the mic or does it serve some kind of other purpose?

Bro Shark · Post by **Bro Shark** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 5:06 pm

Dude....

You're my Bizarro-world doppelganger who actually does the things I daydream about all day.

Wow.

Awesome.

*weeps*

digitaldrummer · Post by **digitaldrummer** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 9:15 am

thegeek wrote:I noticed in one of your pictures that you have a your overheads covered with a rag of some kind. Is that just to protect the mic or does it serve some kind of other purpose?

just to keep out the dust since I keep them up there all the time. *Usually* I remember to take them off before I record.

thegeek · Post by **thegeek** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 11:40 am

I was hoping that I stumbled across some great secret! HAHA!

Thanks!

digitaldrummer · Post by **digitaldrummer** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 7:52 pm

just wanted to updated and say that I'm very pleased with the sound in the new studio. I've been doing some recording and so far its what I was hoping for. a nice "room" sound.

one of the first things I noticed when playing back some reference tracks is that my monitors suddenly had all this low end that I had not been hearing before in the small room! Even with lots of bass trapping I had to use a subwoofer to compensate for some of the lows before. Now I can hear those freqs more clearly w/o the sub.

I still have some tweaking to do and will be hanging a few more absorption panels in strategic places but overall its been great. The construction process went very smoothly too and I can't say enough good things about the general contractor I hired to build this.

Mike

JWL · Post by **JWL** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 8:30 pm

Great news Mike! Bust a bottle of expensive wine over her, and get to making great music in your space....

mscottweber · Post by **mscottweber** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 6:27 pm

I'm curious how good the sound isolation is outside. Have you checked how loud things are outside of the studio?

digitaldrummer · Post by **digitaldrummer** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 6:17 pm

msweber wrote:I'm curious how good the sound isolation is outside. Have you checked how loud things are outside of the studio?

Sound isolation is very, very good on the sides that have no windows - of course the windows and single door are the weak link. I knew this when I put them in. I constructed some "devices" that I can stuff into the windows when I need greater sound isolation (either keeping noise in or out of the studio). I've also worked on the door a little and sealed up some cracks a little tighter. Eventually I hope to find a heavy moving blanket or stage curtain that I can put over the door on a rod so I can move it out of the way when I need to use the door. Right now I have a gobo on wheels that I can slide in front of it to help some too. Or I may get crazy and attach some more "mass" to the door. The door is a nice solid mahogany door, however, it also has panels carved into it so it gets thinner in some spots. Maybe I should have gone with the foam core, steel door. What I really wanted was a steel clad, wooden door or an extra thick wooden door but I couldn't find one (in time to not hold up everything else).

anyway, the little bit of sound leakage has not really been a problem so far - either when drumming or when recording acoustic guitars and such. I also recently had a band rehearsal in there with full-out rock and roll guitars and my wife could not hear it in the house. so far so good.

here's the window things (crude but works well enough for now)

Baffle1
Baffle2

Mike

trodden · Post by **trodden** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 8:10 pm

I'm definitely going to need to construct some burly window plugs for my new place.. they are the main sources of traffic noise.

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