digi2ns
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A look inside my Music Room
Working on the walls and ceilings getting ready for paint. Room is 12x14 Going to order some wall hangers for the guit-fiddles  Need 9 ughh, but want them off the floor Heres a short vid of where I am at so far-SORRY I messed up on the camera position, hate that skinny view UPDATED Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjNgt6jlNSA
post edited by digi2ns - 2012/11/12 08:43:31
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Re:A look inside my Music Room
2012/11/11 16:57:30
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Getting better, isn't it? :) Congrats on the good work.
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Re:A look inside my Music Room
2012/11/11 17:11:06
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I love seeing video/pics of home studios. You have some awesome gear and the space is really looking good. Looking forward to more videos/pics!
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Re:A look inside my Music Room
2012/11/11 17:22:48
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What are the furring strips for? Are you gonna fur that wall out with something sound absorbing?
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Re:A look inside my Music Room
2012/11/11 17:31:25
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Crg
What are the furring strips for? Are you gonna fur that wall out with something sound absorbing?
At one time, the old owners had a drop ceiling in that it held. Im going to put in a soffit around the perimeter with maybe some LED lighting and cram it full of insulation.
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Re:A look inside my Music Room
2012/11/11 17:35:45
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Im going to put in a soffit around the perimeter with maybe some LED lighting and cram it full of insulation. What kind of insulation? Those corners are very reactive to bass reflections. You should investigate some bass traps for that.
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Re:A look inside my Music Room
2012/11/11 17:37:14
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Im going to do a good detailed one for the insurance guys once I get everything done.
Dont want them to say that I didnt have it here LOL
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Re:A look inside my Music Room
2012/11/11 17:43:59
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Crg
Im going to put in a soffit around the perimeter with maybe some LED lighting and cram it full of insulation.
What kind of insulation? Those corners are very reactive to bass reflections. You should investigate some bass traps for that.
Will they do any good as traps up on the ceiling? I have no idea. I have some corner cab that are going to be bass traps for the 2 rear corners. They will be stuffed with that 703 I believe its called. I am curious on the ceiling soffits though. Sounds like a good idea to make them traps. Just not sure if the functionality is actually there to build them that way. Thoughts?
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Re:A look inside my Music Room
2012/11/11 17:50:59
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Thanks Rain, yes it is but slowly. This is my winter room, I move it all up to the back patio area in the spring/summer and do a good cleaning on everything at that time. Then reverse the process in the fall/winter time frame. Kinda ridiculous but it isnt worth fighting the cold up here and the huge gas bill it takes to heat that big room. Thanks Kev Looking forward to the updated video as well Means Ill be getting closer to having her done
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Re:A look inside my Music Room
2012/11/11 17:53:30
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Ha! Cool dude. I have that exact same Mackie board (with the extra mic pre module and everything). Is that what you recorded your sweet sounding acoustic guits through? I haven't had the room to set mine up with the new gear yet so I'm not sure what kind of results I'm gonna get. Cheers.
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Re:A look inside my Music Room
2012/11/11 17:57:08
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If you hang them on the ceiling, they will be clouds. One or two of those in the playing and mixing-mastering positions couldn't hurt. You want to put lights around the perimeter in a soffit which makes sound dampening difficult. You'll have to come up with a soffit design and work on it from there. The ceiling to wall corner is a bit different from wall to wall corners. Obviously it might be hard to put lights up with the usual triangular bass traps. Light rope comes to mind, but you might want more light than that. It's something you'll have to design.
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Re:A look inside my Music Room
2012/11/11 17:59:03
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And here I thought you had a brain scan to show us.
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Re:A look inside my Music Room
2012/11/11 18:03:10
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He could just mount a light fixture on the wall above his workstation or get a couple of floor lamps. No need to over think that.
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Re:A look inside my Music Room
2012/11/11 18:08:10
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I'd get my money back for that wide angle lens.
Other than that...cool, thanks for the tour!
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Re:A look inside my Music Room
2012/11/11 18:09:01
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Hmmm..., atmosphere and lighting and the effects of lighting on atmosphere in a small room for recording-performing-making music, can be the difference between a happy space and a stressed- too hot- too bright space full of residual standing waves and..., well never mind, you get the picture. You gotta work with what you have.
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Re:A look inside my Music Room
2012/11/11 18:14:11
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bapu
And here I thought you had a brain scan to show us.
LMAO Nope my last High Contrast MRI proved it impossible. Nothin' up there
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Re:A look inside my Music Room
2012/11/11 18:16:43
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I'd get my money back for that wide angle lens. Other than that...cool, thanks for the tour!
No kidding on the lens. I can never remember what way to hold them iPhones. I guess its straight up and down as you would talk to get it to come out correct. Thanks
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Re:A look inside my Music Room
2012/11/11 18:19:59
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Crg
Hmmm..., atmosphere and lighting and the effects of lighting on atmosphere in a small room for recording-performing-making music, can be the difference between a happy space and a stressed- too hot- too bright space full of residual standing waves and..., well never mind, you get the picture. You gotta work with what you have.
Amen, Im kinda lucky down here as well. Off of this room I have a 6x8 for Vocal Booth and a 12'x 30' connected to it as well so if we need to bring an entire band in I can. Would have been neat to put in a sliding wall to open the area up for something like that but-NAHHHH LOL
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Re:A look inside my Music Room
2012/11/11 18:25:17
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Not sure exactly which ones I ran through the board or direct in to be honest. All the 5th Gear stuff was ran through it but that was in a OSB encased Barn that was like being inside a smooth hardwood box LOL. I seen something about using the Pres on the board instead of the MAudios because of the sound. Ive been pleased both ways but once I get settled Im going to really check out that theory on the Pres.  Thanks Bud!!!
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Re:A look inside my Music Room
2012/11/11 18:33:53
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digi2ns
spacey
I'd get my money back for that wide angle lens. Other than that...cool, thanks for the tour!
No kidding on the lens. I can never remember what way to hold them iPhones. I guess its straight up and down as you would talk to get it to come out correct.
Thanks
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Re:A look inside my Music Room
2012/11/11 18:38:11
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Re:A look inside my Music Room
2012/11/11 18:45:29
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Yeah those old American made Mackie's have some very nice and distinct sounding pres on them. It's why I snagged mine. Got it for a really good price and it was in PERFECT condition which is rare. Looks like yours has been well taken care of too. I've been concerned about "coloring" my mixes with it but yanno sometimes you want that color. I like the pres on my Focusrite but once I have more room it'll be nice to experiment with all my older gear. I've just been doing everything line in for now while I learn and to check out the quality which is definitely passable but I have a feeling I'm gonna be able to get far more interesting and creative tones once I start adding things to the chain. Can't wait. Anyway, cool set up. The only real thing I'd be worried about is all the bare concrete but that easy enough to solve. You can just even staple some old linens to those slats of wood on the wall to reduce some of the noise bouncing around. I can hear the echo in the vid. If you're micing stuff it might be something you should try to reign in a bit. Cheers!
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Re:A look inside my Music Room
2012/11/11 19:09:44
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Hey Mike In my space I needed clouds and a rug on the floor. I couldn't believe how much high and low end reflections the room had. I used Ready Acoustics to build my traps. They supply the material or build the traps for you. Ready Acoustics http://www.readyacoustics.com/ CLOUDS hung 4" from ceiling above desk . . .
 Kev
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Re:A look inside my Music Room
2012/11/11 19:18:34
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Thanks Kev
I guess the easiest way for me would be to put together the clouds. I have a rug down already that takes up most of the floor so should be good there.
Im going to check out the link ya gave and see what they have.
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Re:A look inside my Music Room
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Re:A look inside my Music Room
2012/11/11 20:28:01
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It looks like a good start, Mike.
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Re:A look inside my Music Room
2012/11/12 06:41:30
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Beepster
Yeah those old American made Mackie's have some very nice and distinct sounding pres on them. It's why I snagged mine. Got it for a really good price and it was in PERFECT condition which is rare. Looks like yours has been well taken care of too. I've been concerned about "coloring" my mixes with it but yanno sometimes you want that color. I like the pres on my Focusrite but once I have more room it'll be nice to experiment with all my older gear. I've just been doing everything line in for now while I learn and to check out the quality which is definitely passable but I have a feeling I'm gonna be able to get far more interesting and creative tones once I start adding things to the chain. Can't wait. Anyway, cool set up. The only real thing I'd be worried about is all the bare concrete but that easy enough to solve. You can just even staple some old linens to those slats of wood on the wall to reduce some of the noise bouncing around. I can hear the echo in the vid. If you're micing stuff it might be something you should try to reign in a bit. Cheers!
Is that the CR-1604? I have that one as well, but I don't have the extra mic pre module (they're hard to find now). I bought it used from someone here on the forum - don't even remember who now, he's not a regular any more. but I don't use the mic pres in recording anyway. I might look at trying, tho, based on what you're saying here.
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Re:A look inside my Music Room
2012/11/12 07:50:45
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lmao Can you believe someone complained cause I had Creed playing in the background on this video. Redoing it anyway with one of our cover tunes, OK Figured out the iPhone thingy, Hold it Horizontally and upload HD Woot!!!
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Re:A look inside my Music Room
2012/11/12 09:35:17
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Cool.
Were some of your guitars behaving badly?
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