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I am happy I found this video! I was about to make a vocal booth, but instead: I just put my microphone in the center of the room, and it sounds more open and less muddy than when I used my improvised vocal booth.
I found someone on Offer Up selling Green Glue for $70 per 5 gal bucket. I bought two, sold one of them for $200, used about 2 1/2 gallons on my vocal booth then sold the remainder for $30. I applied it between my drywall layers. I have no idea if it makes a difference but since I got the glue for such a deal the only downside was applying it, and the thought that it really doesn't make a difference.
Very flawed logic. If your whole room is just made from doors, it will less sound proof than a room that is well sound proofed and has one door. So your rooms soundproofing is not only as good as the weekest link. The door is the weekest link though, but that is very different to your whole setup only being as good as the weekest link.
Great videos! When installing the drywall over the rebond foam, are you compressing the 4" foam down when screwing the drywall? Or are you trying to keep the foam expanded as much as you can?
I live in Southern California. I have roughly the same space. Can you please give me a rough estimate to have a studio built like yours? This is exactly what I want. Presently I’m using a Bedroom Studio. This would be great! Please DM a number.
Thanks a lot for the great video. Would this help for inside a small vocal booth to reduce the noise for Neighbours below? I get that sound could still travel down but would it help at all?
Rhere where some weird sound artifacts in the sound reduction demo of your home studio. Did you edit the audio to make the sound reduction more impressive?
Slight issue with your math. In New Brunswick, Canada, Rockwood Safe and Sound is the equivalent to R22 insulation. Your difference in pricing is not comparable
The point is that rockwool does not make a wall soundproof. People think it alone is what makes a wall soundproof. My point is that it is the double wall system as a whole.
why don't people just demo the thing? i don't want to see numbers i want to hear it. i want to hear someone singing inside it actually i want to not hear them if at all which would mean its a good product. i don't want to go by what a piece of paper says. i can't find any videos demoing this thing.
... I know this is going to be a carelessly put together video by the fact you didn't go back and just re-do the take when you messed up "Be all and end all"
My Mr Cool has been working fantastic since the day I installed it with not one bit of problems I have two units one in my lower level that is a traditional inverter with an air handler and the second inverter that goes to my second floor with four wall mounted units I guarantee you it's not Mr Cool you screwed up your install
Dude, I just want to thank you for providing these resources. As a musician with some pretty severe sensory issues, building a soundproof space where I can just peacefully exist has been my dream since I was a little kid. I’ve been able to start planning for the future (when this is financially feasible) because of these videos, so thank you ❤
One thing that didn't make a lot of sense. Recording in the control room without headphones, I have tried that. The monitors squeal oike crazyvfrom feedback I had to use headphones in the control room.
Great video as usual. I'll be in this boat soon. One more thing to look out for everyone is the "FU price." It's when the contractor is not wanting to deal with the nuances of the project, but will do it with a grudge if you bite on their greatly inflated price estimate.
How about rooms with multiple windows and doors (for closets and bathrooms/dutch doors, etc..) ? Does a door in a corner help or hinder bass absorption? And can I hang acoustic paneling over a window or does the window need to be sealed off?
Wow! Great information to have. Makes me glad I used Daikon and professional installers. They warned me against Mr. Cool and I didn’t know if they were just up selling me or not.
I thought the idea of green glue - IS 2 layers of drywall - with the green glue in between??... That's what I did when I built lesson studios in my music store 15 years ago... Are you saying - just the 2 drywall layers would have sufficed? It all worked pretty good - isolated the rooms from each other ok... rooms were next to each other - and had 5 rooms and 5 lessons going on at once (no drum lessons), and never had any real issues...
I like this idea a lot. When dividing a large space (ie a barn), this will be relatively easy way to make a control room or smaller recording areas I presume..
finally "for those using the metric system" lol. Always gets me when people are like "OK so you want to cut it to about three quarters of the length of a piece of string that fits around a medium-sized mouse that has eaten three small-sized poptarts"
Thanks, you are right about vocal booths for a totally wrong reasons. First, it is a myth that we need a live room for vocal recordings, in this day and age with so much compression and additional processing, having zero reflections is a must. Music from 50 years ago was different, recording techniques were different, listening habits were different, there is no comparison. Also, having reverberations in vocal recordings make the microphone sound totally different, there are all sorts of nasty resonances and build ups, it is a big problem overall. Second, the real problem with vocal booths is their size. As they are small, there is a lot of comb filtering and this is even worse than the live room nastiness. Overall, there is no easy solution, as you said there is no trick that can cheat the science and unfortunately the only solution is to have a vocal booth, but a large one and then the vocals will sound great. Or simply record vocals outside. Zero reflections, only then you can hear all your mics properly. I bet 99.99% of people do not know how their microphones sound actually.
I agree, but It’s dIt’s not think I made my point clear that the vocal room should have almost no reflections. It is still treated like a dead vocal booth but is a room not a booth. A live room vocal as you said is a completely different flavor.
@soundproofyourstudio that's great, and there is good information here, but the hvac room/closet can be noisy also. Some blowers, like mine, unfortunately, are just loud and should be addressed as part of the HVAC system. 75% of all articles and videos I've seen only address the vents or HVAC vibration. Thanks, though, keep up the good work.
I'm also a metal drummer looking to do a soundproof shed in my backyard. Would you happen to have any updates on sound tests for the drummer's build? I'm really interested to hear the sound tests.
@@soundproofyourstudio it’s a good thing 😂 it’s a very soothing voice. He does videos on mixing and mastering, I wondered if you two were the same person
Will the “acoustic” part work without double wall isolation system? what I mean is If we are talking about acoustics for a control room - how good this system work if it’s implemented from the airgap part but on top of the standard walls?
@@soundproofyourstudio one last question. My basement is all cemented. Should I make a subfloor and build the booth on top of it or just leave the cement floor alone? Thanks
Some of your videos including this one have a harsh dog whistle frequency. It makes the video hard to listen it for those of us who can still hear them. Run your sound through a visual EQ and see if you can see it.
