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Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
Many of you may know Jimmy Landry as the Cakewalk Artist Relations Manager, but he also happens to be a very successful writer/mixer/producer. Having a solid recording and mixing environment is important and it often starts with the acoustic treatment. Jimmy's new blog post demonstrates how he built out the sound cloud component to his new mix room in the first of a 3-part series on acoustic treatments. And yes, he built it himself....and we also suspect he may be Batman. How building Cost Effective Acoustic Treatment for the Music Studio Will Help Your Music Production
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Re:Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
2012/02/16 13:26:22
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Great timing! I moved the studio and have to treat it. Thanks :) If maybe someone can find out where Jimmy got the fabric so cheap... seems to have doubled in price.
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Re:Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
2012/02/16 14:21:58
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Good Job.
Thanks for sharing!
best regards,
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Re:Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
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Re:Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
2012/02/16 17:01:23
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Does this belong in this forum?
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Re:Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
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Re:Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
2012/02/16 17:44:11
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What is Cakewalk trying to flog this time?
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Re:Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
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Re:Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
2012/02/16 18:28:37
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...wicked
flog?
It's British slang for 'sell'.
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Re:Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
2012/02/16 19:18:58
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Flywheel
What is Cakewalk trying to flog this time?
good lord.... really dude??!! Is this a joke?
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Re:Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
2012/02/16 20:00:06
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Are you building these panels and putting them in the corner?
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Re:Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
2012/02/16 22:42:23
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after polishing my forum cop badge, I see this is posted in the wrong forum 
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Re:Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
2012/02/17 01:24:55
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F@ker
after polishing my forum cop badge, I see this is posted in the wrong forum
Your "badge" is being confiscated and you're under investigation for impersonating a forum administrator. [A very serious offense that could cost you all of your accumulated post counts and reduce your Bronze membership to a simple aluminum alloy material!]
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Re:Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
2012/02/27 14:22:20
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Flywheel
What is Cakewalk trying to flog this time?
Nothing to flog here. I made these traps for my new studio room and wanted to positively share what I did with this community. Got it? Thanks, Jimmy
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Re:Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
2012/02/27 14:27:14
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Re:Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
2012/02/27 14:33:20
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Hello, It's related to using SONAR X1. One of our forum editors liked the post a lot and thought the users in our forum community would find it interesting in this spot. Thanks, Jimmy
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Re:Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
2012/02/27 17:01:18
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One other cool thing i noticed with that acoustic fabric is that you can buy pre-sewn 'wraps' or bags that will fit your insulation size. I did a similar thing here - got some bags sewn up to size with hooks sewn into the back of them, then slotted in the insulation and hung them up - very easy!
Thanks for sharing Jimmy.
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Re:Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
2012/02/27 17:22:18
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Hello, It's related to using SONAR X1. One of our forum editors liked the post a lot and thought the users in our forum community would find it interesting in this spot. Thanks, Jimmy
Ah, they're just razzin' ya! I don't get to all the forums, so if it wasn't here, I wouldn't know about it. Maybe somebody thinks there's an illuminati plot to sell corning stock behind it all.. haha. Coolbeans on the blog, Jimmy! Room treatment is a perennial favorite. Sonar could be doing the nicest stuff behind the scenes, but if the monitoring chain in front of it (including the room and walls) isn't reproducing it accurately, that's a tough road. I don't have an internal ear like beethoven, nor do I have the patience to 'compensate' in the mix for a room's deficiency. Just getting things halfway fixed at the source has increased my enjoyment of music immensely.
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Re:Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
2012/02/27 17:43:50
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Haha Jimmy!
I remember when you visited my studio and were talking about how you were going to make these traps after I told you how I made mine.
Hope all is well and gratz on the sound treatment man!
Lance
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Re:Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
2012/02/27 18:48:21
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Thanks Jimmy - I am going to move my gear into a new room in the house, and this could not have come at a better time..
Lance
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Re:Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
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Re:Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
2012/02/28 06:52:40
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I need to do this!!! thanks for the Gentle persuasion to do this!
Cheers sycle1 There is no cure for stupidity, I should know!!!
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Re:Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
2012/02/28 08:34:37
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I was about to make those kind of thing this summer , but the quality of the air was an issue with fiber glasse or rock ....also fire certification ..... I finally ended up with those white basotect form :  Cheap , M1 classement , easy to cut and place , you can paint them if you want http://www.thomann.de/fr/takustik_basotect_50_100100_4er_pack.htm Bass traps are my old ones ... The basotect is used for public critical areas so it's safe and clean ( schools , hospitals ....Ect)
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Re:Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
2012/03/01 12:32:17
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Thanks! Yeah I totally agree. I went into knowing that I was not going to get a perfect environment, but like you said "getting things 1/2 way fixed at the source" it the best way to look at it. They were a beast to make but it was good doing it on the cheap with the way they turned out looking. I'm about to post Part 3 today on the wall panels. Thanks for reading. jrl osd
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Hello, It's related to using SONAR X1. One of our forum editors liked the post a lot and thought the users in our forum community would find it interesting in this spot. Thanks, Jimmy
Ah, they're just razzin' ya! I don't get to all the forums, so if it wasn't here, I wouldn't know about it. Maybe somebody thinks there's an illuminati plot to sell corning stock behind it all.. haha.
Coolbeans on the blog, Jimmy! Room treatment is a perennial favorite. Sonar could be doing the nicest stuff behind the scenes, but if the monitoring chain in front of it (including the room and walls) isn't reproducing it accurately, that's a tough road. I don't have an internal ear like beethoven, nor do I have the patience to 'compensate' in the mix for a room's deficiency.
Just getting things halfway fixed at the source has increased my enjoyment of music immensely.
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Re: Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
2013/11/24 17:37:21
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Would I do anything wrong if I filled the corner traps with sheep wool instead of Rockwool ?
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Re: Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
2013/11/24 22:02:42
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I don't like the idea of the drywall anchors used. Gypsum panels (what ceilings are usually covered with) are just two sheets of cardboard with 1/2" of chalk between them. Any kind of humidity is going to severely weaken what little integrity there is. Not to mention that the gysum sheet itself, which weighs a ton, is only held in place with more-or-less tiny screw or nail heads, also holding only cardboard.
3/4" x 3" pine is not that light, especially if you use rockwool. I'd take the time to locate the joists in the ceiling and anchor the panel into those with 3/8" lag bolts or hooks (make sure you screw into the center of the joist). If the joists are not in the right spot you can screw a piece of plywood across them and anchor into that with T-nuts.
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Re: Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
2013/11/25 02:18:04
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Thanks for the info Jimmy, however, there is no way you can get all those materials at those prices!
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Re: Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
2013/11/25 05:11:50
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tonydean
Thanks for the info Jimmy, however, there is no way you can get all those materials at those prices!
Those prices were applicable when the original thread was posted (almost 2 years ago)
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Re: Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
2013/11/25 11:15:43
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Bristol_Jonesey
tonydean
Thanks for the info Jimmy, however, there is no way you can get all those materials at those prices!
Those prices were applicable when the original thread was posted (almost 2 years ago)
You guys have got to stop having natural disasters. They've pushed building materials prices through the roof.
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Re: Build cost effective acoustic treatment for your home studio - Part 1
2013/11/25 11:27:31
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While the "rustic" look of his panels is... rustic.... the wife "accepted" something like this in the living room/studio.  [/URL]
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