im needing a little help from you guys...

[xxxBlackWidowxxx]

Hi people, as I said I’m in a need of a hand right here, haha.

I’m moving next week and I will have a spare room... so I decided to make my home studio a little bit more pro.
And I thought it would be a good idea to hear your opinions and recommendations...

The first problem I've got to deal with is that the room where I will do the recordings is surrounded by neighbors. I’m not planning to record drumms but guitar cabs will be a problem

I also want to make a very good acoustic because I do some mix and master...

I did some research but before I buy something I must be sure that what I’m doing is right (i don’t have much money to make mistakes)

so mainly I have some questions I would like to ask... and of course any recommendations of something I should avoid, or something i pass throu...

1) preparing the room:

*at first place I was planning to cover all the area with acoustic foam (sonex) but then I hear that is not good to have all the area covered. (area = 4 walls. ceiling and floor will have different treatment.)
is that true?

*I have parallel walls, I know that there are some problems I may have... any expirience with it?

2) to isolate the room

*i was recommended to use and isolation box for the amp ... the cab its a 4x12 V30, I can moderate the volume that goes to it, so I can crank the tubes, but the sound is diferent when the cab plays loud, so I would like to record it,,, loud...

But heard about the box sound you get when recording (its logic)... maybe if its not so small don't know.

* at first I wanted to decoupling the walls, leaving an air cavity between the brick wall and one made by plywood and acoustic foam. (Maybe filled with some fiberglass wool or something)

but then I read some info... and I realize that if I made the iso box and decoupled the walls I would be making a triple leaf effect with two different air cavities... and that is the worst way.
One leaf would be the walls of the box, first air cavity would be the room, the second leaf is the one made by plywood and acoustic foam, then the second air cavity and finally the third leaf the brick wall.

so I should avoid decupling if I’m making the iso box, don’t know... may be there is another way.

The room is Large 3.22m
Wide 3.17 m
High 2.94 m

(edit)in feets: L 10.56
W10.4
H9.65
well, any help is much appreciated!


and thaks guys u rock!

 

[lolzgreg]

Deaden the ceiling completely with a thick wedge acoustic foam. It is the same distance from the floor throughout the entire room (or I assume so), so it is your worst enemy when it comes to flutter echo.

Deaden the wall (or the area of the wall) that your monitors are pointing at, because if you don't, the high end of your mixes will be blurred by a combination of the signal directly from the monitors and the first reflections off of the back wall reaching your ears at the same time.

Use a full length mirror and go along the walls of your room; anywhere you can see your monitors, build an acoustic panel out of OC703 or Rockwool covered in fabric with a "frame" of sorts, and hang it on the wall. You can find threads about building these all over the internet.

Alternate reflective and absorbent surfaces throughout the room. Ideally, any point parallel and opposite to another point in the room will have contrasting treatment. Diffusion and bass trapping (putting huge chunks of rockwool in corners of your room, wrapped in fabric) would be the best. Diffusion isn't easy because it's hard to build structures that are good at scattering many different frequencies.

Don't build an iso box for your 4x12. It's very difficult to make one that won't sound "boxy." It will need to be HUGE and HEAVY, it will not fit through your door, it must be decoupled from your floor, and it will need to be completely balanced and "dead" inside to sound natural. If you absorb too many highs, it will sound wooly and muddy. If you absorb too much bass, it will sound thin and weak.

Good luck,

-Greg