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Post by Rebekah Amber Clark on May 2, 2017 15:39:56 GMT -8
I'd suggest looking up some tutorials/schematics for sound booths. I'm no carpenter, but with your skills all you probably need is the design to work with. I do remember hearing something about "floating" floors (a floor with space under it and then another floor, something like that?). I think a properly built sound booth will keep out external noise just as well regardless of size. At least, I would imagine it would, since the soundproofing would be the same, just with the walls/ceiling/floor father apart or closer together. The three main things I can think of that size WOULD affect would be; 1, acoustics - just like any other room. 2, cost for materials, etc., and 3, the space it takes up. Of course, noise INSIDE the booth/room is another story. As for what size you need, you should think about how it will be used. A sound room for recording a baby grand piano will need to be larger than a sound booth for recording dry voice over, obviously! As long as it's large enough to get all the necessary people and equipment inside (hopefully comfortably, but I suppose that's optional LOL), it should be large enough.
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Post by duffyweber on May 3, 2017 5:03:26 GMT -8
I have been working out the details of the sound room working with what I already have available in quantity and I came up with this. Building a simple new wall inside the old walls utilizing the excess 4 inch insulation that I have. This still leaves a solid wood or sheet rock surface within the room, but that could be covered with some reject carpet that I could likely get from one of the carpet stores. Inside of that I was considering taking some old blankets and pleating them, when I pleat them I could roll up old cloth of which I have boxes and boxes full of old cloths from the kids and fill the pleats with cloth. Then hang the pleated, cloth filled blankets maybe 2 or 3 inches out from the walls as a sound deadening system. As for computer noise, I figured if I am building a wall inside of the original wall then I could simply create a space within the wall for the computer tower with an access door and a vent to an external room. For a mouse click noise I can simply rewire an old mouses buttons to operate with old fashioned leaf switches. Use a fully functional mouse with the right hand and have left and right click via silent, leaf switches operated by the left hand. I think with the added wall thickness that I would go ahead and add another door to the room and mount foam to one of the doors to take up the space between the doors. As for the floor, I am not having a lot of good ideas as yet other than maybe several layers of carpet and carpet pad, it would be pretty spongy but would work maybe. My house is made with heavy rough cut timber beams and is quite solid, but the timbers seem to transmit sound through out the house very well, I am thinking I may have to do quite a bit to stop the sound from transmitting through the floor into the room. I think you're on the right track. Thick carpet on the floor will go a long way, especially if the sound booth is enclosed. Have you ever been to one of those furniture stores that has carpets hanging from a rack? The rest of the place sounds like a warehouse, and when you go between those rugs, it's like you lost your hearing ; ) If you're in an enclosed booth, I think positioning your mic so that the rejection axis is near any timbers that might transmit sound might be of a lot of help, and I also think that a small rug would probably suffice (and keep your toes toasty on cold days.) Though if you wanted to be really sure, you could put in one of those memory foam underlays for people that stand all day. Just remember when building the booth how sound carries, and what you're trying to shield from, and you'll probably be fine. ^_^ Also, this sounds AWESOME! I'm sure we'd all love to see a pic of the finished product. = ) P.S. For smaller areas: Be sure you keep your back near a padded wall, and pad the ceiling and side walls as well, and you won't get a ringing/buzzing sound when you talk. Echoes in small areas are almost weirder to deal with than echoes in large areas.
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Post by duffyweber on Aug 5, 2017 4:33:22 GMT -8
Something's gone wonky with the formatting on the original post. I'll try to clean it up soon when I've got a moment.
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Post by Bean on Aug 11, 2017 4:25:14 GMT -8
What's odd is that when I quote that first post, everything that's underlined is gone outside of the few times you have it like that in the blue text part.
Either way, thanks for this guide. It's helped me go from recording in an open area at first before I looked at the thread to pretty much making the best soundproofed area I can come up with depending on what part of this place I'm trying to practice in. It makes it seem like I have an idea of what I'm doing at the very least!
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Post by duffyweber on Oct 1, 2017 9:20:49 GMT -8
What's odd is that when I quote that first post, everything that's underlined is gone outside of the few times you have it like that in the blue text part. Either way, thanks for this guide. It's helped me go from recording in an open area at first before I looked at the thread to pretty much making the best soundproofed area I can come up with depending on what part of this place I'm trying to practice in. It makes it seem like I have an idea of what I'm doing at the very least! I'm really glad to hear that it helped! As to the formatting... Heh, I've tried fixing it twice now, and I've given up for the time being. T_T The good news is, it's currently ugly but useful. Which is MUCH better, on the whole, than pretty, fluffy, well-laid out, and completely uninformative. ; )
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