Renting a place for a studio. Window?

[jangoux]

Hey,

That's a stupid title for a thread, but wth. I will be renting a place for my own studio soon, and I am 90% sure i won't be able to install a window between the tracking and mixing rooms due to the costs involved on doing this. What would be a good alternative to a window. Monitors and cams ? Anyone built anything like this before?

Ivan

 

[Chryst Krispies]

Camera.

 

[mick thompson]

Camera.

+1

any decent camera and feed it to a tv if you cant gutt the wall to put in a window. grab a wireless AV unit if it wont reach - they're pretty cheap. quality doesn't have to be perfect so who cares

i can't think of anything else that could do the trick, webcams would have terrible latency issues and bad fps's in shitty lighting conditions

 

[Norris-wf]

ya, a cheap cctv camera would be ideal, and they are very cheap these days, that or an elaborate system of mirrors. But as mick said, stay away from webcams, they are fairly slow and also get fucked if you dont have enough light. They dont have the resolution that you would get with a CCTV cam, and at least you wont need software to run it, which can be a pain at times

 

[LeSedna]

it has been discussed here one week ago, IIRC a good camera costs 50 bucks + any old TV for nothing could do the job.

 

[Zack Uidl]

Look up Brian Hood's thread. He ended up with a window, but the camera was discussed.

 

[Soundlurker]

it has been discussed here one week ago, IIRC a good camera costs 50 bucks + any old TV for nothing could do the job.

Old TVs tend to produce a nasty noise.

 

[brianhood]

Yeah, my landlord was amazing enough to cut the hole and install the window for me for free(I had to pay for the glass). I doubt there is another landlord in the world that would do that haha. I was planning on going with a camera and tv before he did that, and someone posted a link to a perfect camera for it on one of my previous threads

 

[jangoux]

Sorry, didnt see that other thread. Just checked it though....I'll check how much laminated glass + frame would cost, i think it probably will be cheaper than 2 cameras + 2 TVs. Besides, it must feel REALLY weird to see the musicians through a TV.

 

[brianhood]

Sorry, didnt see that other thread. Just checked it though....I'll check how much laminated glass + frame would cost, i think it probably will be cheaper than 2 cameras + 2 TVs. Besides, it must feel REALLY weird to see the musicians through a TV.

1/4" Laminated glass cost me about $250 per ~ 5ftx3ft piece. If you're building from scratch and did everything properly with sound isolation, then you'll probably want thicker than that, but if you just have a single wall, or (in my case) an improperly done double wall, then two 1/4" pieces should be enough. Your sound isolation is only as good as your weakest link, so there was no reason for me to go thicker.