| Home recording and general music post from the archived Yabb Recording Website Message Board. Some of the info here may be outdated but many of the audio recording and home studio tips are still good. Note: The only tags I made and attempt to convert are italics, bold, center and underline. So if you see some gibberish surrounded by brackets, just ignore it.
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Febuary 2001 Yabb Message Board Archive
Subject: drum room
by Maury | 03/08/01 at 12:23:02
Hi everyone- Excellent work, Dan, the site looks great. Thank you for a great resource! My question is this: My basement studio is coming along nicely, and I'm ready to get into the drum room. I studded & drywalled a 13' x 12' room. Do any of you have any success stories / suggestions for wall treatment? I have to go with carpet on the floor, since it's not level in some spots. Thanks so much,
Maury
Subject: Re: drum room
by db | 03/08/01 at 15:40:11
:D Hi, fun isn't it? When one of my places was under construction, the control room was finished, but the soundroom was just drywall and concrete. I had to cut a jingle for a local store and so we used the room, it sounded great! Not good for rock but fabulous for drums, acoustics and vocals. Everything had this crispness to it, with very short, but useable delays. So I guess before treatment...Listen first. You can always make portable absorbers/gobo's. BTW if you look at the treatments in the 80's section of my homepage, you will see the panels, different thiknesses, thats decorator burlap stretched over wood frames with carpetex as the absorber underneath, carpetex is the chopped up foam rebonded for padding.
--db
Subject: Re: drum room
by Maury | 03/09/01 at 12:58:42
Thanks, DB! I appreciate your advice. I guess I'm being too nervous too soon. I'll keep an open mind. Thanks again-
Maury
Subject: Re: drum room
by Tim_Z | 03/09/01 at 18:24:36
Yeah, I agree with dB. My room is very close in size to your Maury with a 10' ceiling. I had to tame the room a bit, but didn't deaden it totally. For now I have just done the cheap version by carpeting the concrete floor and hanging carpet on two adjacent walls (not opposite) and leaving the other two untreated. I also hung blankets from the ceiling, but not covering the whole ceiling. This has resulted in a controlled room, but still with some useable room ambience. All I have to deal with now is a resonant tone at around 250 to 400 Hz. Once I get rid of that it will be a really decent sounding small room for very little cost.
Cheers
Tim Z
Subject: Re: drum room
by Silent_Bob | 03/09/01 at 18:25:47
What I'd do is lay down some heavy fiber glass on 2 adjacent walls and then cover them with auralex. Leave the other 2 walls live and set the drum sets up pointing toward the live walls. Do the same treatment to the ceiling. I've put up a picture to help. The dark lines indicate insulation & foam tiles while the arrow show the direction of the drum set.
You'll have to download the picture to see it.
http://silentbob.virtualave.net/graphics/room.gif
Subject: Re: drum room
by Maury | 03/11/01 at 14:34:24
Thanks guys - you're suggestions make alot of sense... but Tim, I'm wondering how you know which frequencies are troubling you.
Maury