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Post by admin on Apr 20, 2003 0:55:00 GMT -5
check it out, here's something i learned when i was working at Buena Vista studios in Billings, MT..working under Brian Lucas...
Okay..so you want to play, and record...but you don't want to dish out the cash for that expensive sound proofing foam that they sell in guitar shops? well here's a FREE alternative. Go to any resturant and get their used cardboard egg crates and plaster your walls with them. See, a flat surface is known as a reflective surface...what happens is the sound wave will hit the wall, and bounce back....hitting the other wall and bouncing back...ect,ect,ect (basically reverb if you will). What that expensive foam stuff does is when the soundwave hits it, instead of it bouncing back, the wave will be dispirsed (basically absorbed). causing a more clear, crisp sound...
ALSO, the name brand foam will cost you about $2,000(US dollars) to cover a 16ftx16ft room (approx).
The egg crate is free...most resturants will happily give it to you.
Now the saftey features of using egg crates:
we took a lighter to the expensive foam stuff, and to the eggcrate, well the egg crates took exactly 1second longer to ignite than the foam did. which is pretty cool, cuz when you're running a studio, you have a lot of electrial crap runnin at once, and may (very slim chance though...like a 1/100,000 chance) of causing a fire.
there ya go...i love spreading the wisdom of sound re-inforcement...
later,
wark
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Post by Lexie Chica on Apr 20, 2003 0:57:07 GMT -5
but what if i wanna just piss off the nabes???   ok, sorry for being a pain in the arse on purpose, sounds like a great idea! |
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Post by RichFactWebmistress on Apr 20, 2003 1:00:15 GMT -5
Then you blare Nazareth, Hair of the Dog at them. . .
"Now you're messing with a SON OF A BITCH!"
RFW
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Post by admin on Apr 20, 2003 1:09:23 GMT -5
well...if ya really want to piss of yer neighbors, here's what i'd sugguest:  Price: $10,799.99 for more info go to www.carvin.comoh yeah, that's the SL40-1503-8 package later, wark |
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Post by Lexie Chica on Apr 20, 2003 1:13:34 GMT -5
that's one mofo tower of sound!  i'll look into it |
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Post by B13 on Apr 20, 2003 2:28:31 GMT -5
well...if ya really want to piss of yer neighbors, here's what i'd sugguest: Oh yeah BABY!!!! A handy tip there Wark! Just mind the LF... Eggie boxes ARE a user-friendly bug-fixer, but remember they won't cut down on low frequencies owing to the physical SIZE of the wave AND the fact that LF is omnidirectional (so it'll go thru the floor and "transmit" up the walls)... Try glueing mattresses to the walls!!!! (Putting it another way, a 5mm thick piece of card won't stop a 20Hz, 17.3 meter-long sine wave!) However egg boxes ARE damn handy at cutting out hi mid- to hi- freq "clutter"! (I've used them behind nearfields placed too close to a wall before!) And a bonus is that egg boxes are a useful place to stash picks, plugs, spare change, etc! Basic rule of thumb folks, as Wark said: hard reflective, and above all, parallel surfaces are a no-no in studios, because sound will bounce STRAIGHT back ("standing waves") and cause all sorts of nasty comb filtering (har har!!!) which sounds bloody 'orrible! (i.e. "muddley" with "holes" in the sound) My tip: Book cases are WONDERFUL in home studios because not only do they absorb sound, but they also - by the nature of being odd shapes and sizes - absorb some soundwaves and reflect others in non-parallel directions! ...which is also where the egg boxes are handy because they are made up of carboard cones and troughs... I wanted to specialise in acoustics at college, but they weren't running that particular course when I did my specialist year! Knickers! ... Ah HELL!! Just annoy the neighbours!! More FUN that way!!!! |
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Post by admin on Apr 20, 2003 2:39:31 GMT -5
(Putting it another way, a 5mm thick piece of card won't stop a 20Hz, 17.3 meter-long sine wave!) In other words, low frequency physical properties 101, take this for example....you have some 17year old kid driving down your block with a pair of subwoofers in his trunk, "bumping" some Dr. Dre or what have you...that 'thump thump thump' sound. Ever notice that the bass sounds louder when the car is about 13-20 feet away, verses right infront of you? that's because it takes those low frequencies (the ones that are going 'thump thump thump') a few feet for it to build up and create itself. -wark- |
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Post by RichFactWebmistress on Apr 20, 2003 9:54:01 GMT -5
I hate people who drive with their stereos that loud. How can they possible HEAR to drive!!! Sheesh. And WHY does it need to be that loud anyways?  ? Can't they hear it at NORMAL people levels without blasting their tunes at the rest of us? I like loud music but that's just rediculous. RFW |
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Post by B13 on Apr 20, 2003 13:27:02 GMT -5
My downstair neighbours were playing some "thump thump thump"-type stuff today (we're talking about a neighbour who gets SO wasted, they once had a SINGLE TRACK on repeat for SIXTEEN HOURS!!!) so I decided to "introduce" them to Ministry... Heh heh heh!!! |
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Post by messengercrow on Apr 23, 2003 15:15:39 GMT -5
lol,a friend of mine has covered his room with that,even the ceiling.
didn't know all around the world people use it.
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Post by admin on Apr 23, 2003 15:38:31 GMT -5
hell yeah man, good stuff
being i have a new recording room, i'm slowly in the process of getting all of the walls, even the celing plastered with the junk.....i'll score a picture when i have it done.
later,
-wark-
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Post by B13 on Apr 23, 2003 16:05:37 GMT -5
Just never let any chickens in your room,they'll be laying eggs all OVER the place!!!
;D
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Post by messengercrow on Apr 24, 2003 6:19:40 GMT -5
lol
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Post by ducme on May 27, 2003 23:28:19 GMT -5
another nice thing about the crates is that you can paint them and if you gotta move you just take the crates down instead of repainting them.
man i had to pay like 500.00$ a few years ago cause i had water color paintings on the wall and i couldn't get it all off. so if ya wanna make it look pretty and not disturb your neighbors go for it i just turn my music up real loud at like 2 in the morning.(then again my neighbors also have a little tendancy to not be the quietest people either)
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i'll look into it 
<--- Filter live 2002
? Can't they hear it at NORMAL people levels without blasting their tunes at the rest of us? I like loud music but that's just rediculous. 
