Help: Sound Proofing My Home Studio

Subject: Help: Sound Proofing My Home Studio
From: GUEST,Dewey
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 03:38 AM

I am looking to sound proof my home studio and wound like suggestions as to appropriate materials. The room is fairly small: 11 x 17 feet. The walls are paneling, as I live in a mobile home. There is, however, nothing else in the room currently except my recording equipment, computer and few microphones and stands. I play acoustic music only (bluegrass and folk) no electrical instruments or drums will be used.

Any suggestions would a greatly appreciated! (I prefer white sound proofing materials as I do not like the confining effects of a dark colored room)

Thanks again for the help that anyone can offer!

Dewey

Subject: RE: Help: Sound Proofing My Home Studio
From: SeanM
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 05:30 AM

My first question would be what your biggest concern is - price or result. Second would be whether you're more concerned about keeping YOUR sound from getting out, or whether you're trying to keep outside noises from getting in.

Given a large budget, you should be able to throw yourselves on the mercy of the local home improvement center. What I'm afraid of is that given that you're in the fairly restrictive confines of a mobil home, you may wind up spending a fair chunk of change in completely remodling the room to soundproof it.

For a lesser budget, there are sound dampening paddings that you can get - I'd suggest asking around at either aforementioned home improvement center or the local music store.

But also keep in mind that this ALL will do really odd things to the acoustics. Nothing short of hiring a contractor with experience in building studios is likely to help that.

M

Subject: RE: Help: Sound Proofing My Home Studio
From: 53
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 09:32 PM

i have a small studio in my home also, and i also live in a mobile home, but i'm not yet to the point of being able to soundproof the room, i would suggest getting some pro's in on the decisions, and listen very carefully to their advice.

Subject: RE: Help: Sound Proofing My Home Studio
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 09:56 PM

Egg Cartons and Books

Subject: RE: Help: Sound Proofing My Home Studio
From: Justa Picker
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 10:06 PM

Yes, the "G" man is right.
Egg crates work wonderfully...especially the square ones that hold 3 dozen or so. With some adhesive and imaginative spray painted colors onto them, this would be the cheapest and most effective way to sound proof for a studio environment. I used them as added sound proofing insulation beneath the vapor lock and other insulation in my home studio. But I could have gotten by with just the egg crates. My s.o. however didn't find the egg-crate look by itself esthetically pleasing.

Subject: RE: Help: Sound Proofing My Home Studio
From: GUEST,Dewey
Date: 20 Oct 01 - 06:36 AM

Sorry for the slow response. Thanks everyone for the suggestions I will look into this. I am very grateful for the help!

Dewey

Subject: RE: Help: Sound Proofing My Home Studio
From: 53
Date: 20 Oct 01 - 09:56 PM

hope your room turns out great

Subject: RE: Help: Sound Proofing My Home Studio
From: GUEST,Spike
Date: 21 Oct 01 - 07:23 AM

I have a small studio, and yes egg boxes are very good, but the important thing is that you need a "dead" sound, i.e. asound that has NO natural reverb added from you recording space. I KNOW WHAT YOUR GOING TO SCREAM!!!! But..................................Unless you have a proffesionally built vocal booth and instrument room, you will NEVER get the instruments to sound "live". So the best solution is to record them as dry and as dead as possible and then use onboard effects and eq. to make it sound "right". I would presume you have access to cubase, logic or whatever, so it shouldn't be a problem. I personnaly use VST32 for most of my recordings ( mainly acoustic ), which has an incredible 32 bit reverb that sounds ssssoooooooooooooooooo smooth, and if you record at 24bit @ 96khz then Iwould challenge most people to tell if you did before or after!! SO, use egg boxes, but also add, or try alone, old heavy curtains, you know dark brown lined velvety things your granny used to have, which you can usually beg, borrow or buy quite cheaply. They also make fairly good sounproofing, or will cover up your egg boxes!!! SOLUTION 2 drag your mobilr home to the highlands of Scotland - slightly more expensive solution ;-)

Chers

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