2012/07/09 07:51:42
Karyn
Beepster


So in my garage I have about 20-30 square feet of Roxall Sound insulation, two old doors (hollow), a bunch of old solid wood kitchen cabinet doors (varying sizes), a stack of 8 foot 1x4" lengths of lumber, a half roll of rubber under padding for laminate flooring, a half roll of construction grade vapor barrier and 5 2x4' panels of thick acoustic ceiling tiles


This sounds like a job for the A-Team...
2012/07/09 14:01:15
Beepster
hahaha... noice.
2012/07/09 19:09:01
Crg
Man, I don't know what to say. lol. Do you beleive form follows function? The science of room correction and creating an environment condusive to recording a clean project is enough to make you take a nap. There's no way to know what the results will be with varied materials. You almost have to play Marco-Polo in the room where you want to record and work on it from there. You have outside noise, inside reflection, unknown equipment, ( no don't list it), and the player variable. If you're using a DAW such as Sonar, I'm an advocate of a totally dead room. Unless you've got booku bucks to spend on rooms and treatments. Any thing less than a dead room will show up on a recording. 
2012/07/09 19:41:27
Beepster
@Crg... Well this is actually more for listening/mixing purposes (aside from vocal stuff and some acoustic guitar work) and sadly a completely dead room is impossible. Just thought I could use some of this extra crap I have to help deaden things a little. Unless you MEANT for listening/mixing. In which case I'm stuck with what I can jury rig into whatever space I end up with and my own ears. If someone really wants to buy a piece of my work for commercial purposes then I'd make sure it went somewhere pro for the final mix/master and either eat the cost or put it into the final price. Not anywhere near that point yet though. lol... Cheers.
2012/07/09 19:50:48
Crg
Beepster


@Crg... Well this is actually more for listening/mixing purposes (aside from vocal stuff and some acoustic guitar work) and sadly a completely dead room is impossible. Just thought I could use some of this extra crap I have to help deaden things a little. Unless you MEANT for listening/mixing. In which case I'm stuck with what I can jury rig into whatever space I end up with and my own ears. If someone really wants to buy a piece of my work for commercial purposes then I'd make sure it went somewhere pro for the final mix/master and either eat the cost or put it into the final price. Not anywhere near that point yet though. lol... Cheers.


I'm sorry to have to tell you, you can't hide room noise. Or machine noise. We tune so much noise out in our day to day existance that we don't even realize it. The microphone doesn't.
2012/07/09 19:53:55
craigb
Repetive noises can be tuned out in the mix of course - if you can get a recording just of the noise that is.  Then you just flip its phase and it should cancel out the noise.  That's how those headphones work.

HTH

YMMV
2012/07/09 21:06:52
bapu
craigb


Bapu can be tuned out in the mix of course - if you can get a recording just of Bapu that is.  Then you just flip its phase and it should cancel out the bapu.  That's how those headphones work.

HTH

YMMV

It's been tried. Dinnit work. I just shifted frequencies.
2012/07/09 22:26:13
Beepster
I certainly understand I won't be capable of anything resembling big studio production values but ya gotta work with what you got, eh? I figure any little thing I can do to help make the situation slightly better is a bonus and it's also fun and educational to look at how things are done properly. Then one day if I ever do strike it rich I'll have a general idea of what to do. I guess in the grand scheme of things although I do aspire to make a living off my music I would most certainly fall under the category of "hobbyist". If I can get my ideas to "tape" and make it sound reasonable after the fact that's all I care about. If someone wants to start paying me then I'll drop the money back into making things more proper. For now I'll just learn and grow and chip away at this massive stone that is audio production. Cheers!
2012/07/09 23:38:34
bapu
Funny.

When I read the title I read it as:

Soundtreating with scrap metal...

That's what The CHB does.
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