I built my own ISO cab following this video. The only stupid thing I did was not to make it in 2 removal halves so I can transport it. Right now it is stuck in my studio room, which is fine, but I cannot get it out thru the door if I had to - lol.
First off, that first jam was a tasty morsel, and second of all I have to say that it's nice to see a man build something. Everything else is all a bunch of soft hand Sissy's with manbuns and probably wear rompers to bed. This looks good and I'm sure it functions. Fuck Yeah.
Wow, one of the better DIY cabinets I've seen. I just built an isolation box too, using plywood, QuietBrace sheathing, and a heavy acoustic blanket to absorb sound inside the box. I'm having trouble with low frequency noise transferring to the floor (I live in an apartment on the top floor). I was thinking about building a platform by layering sheetrock with Green Glue - or another elastic material - to absorb the sound and decouple the box from the floor. I saw you used Green Glue in your cabinet. How has it worked for you?
Hey David, thanks for the comment and interest. We just winged this one on some concepts we came up with prior and along the build. It's turned out well. I can have my volume turned up to what I would on stage or at rehearsal with a drum kit in the iso box and be standing next to it and still be able to talk to someone. The low end is still what comes through quite a bit but I think the green glue has helped quite a bit in cutting it down especially the sealant component. Unfortunately I don't have a box without the glue to compare it to. Your box sounds like a good design. Yeah you would need a few layers in the floor. I think green glue is a good product but unfortunately not the cheapest, but worth giving it a go even if only in one of the layers. All the best on your project.
To get rid of the lows you want some kind of low density material in your construction as low frequencies go through solid material easier than higher frequencies, and low density material does not vibrate as much as high dens, so consider using cell plastic or something like that to get rid of most of the lows.
Aren't you choking the mics when you play little louder ? You don't have much space in front of the cabinet to move the air, so the air is getting back to the cabinet and to the read end of the mics fighting against the air that is being pushed by the cabinet. I think 1x12 or 2x12 would be much better application, don't have to build that big box and you can have more space for the mics to breath what do you think ?
Matěj Bludský I've got 2 different 4x12 cabs so wanted to build something that could accomidate them and anything else in the futute so made it pretty big. It's not perfect but works well with dynamic mics sm57 e906 etc maybe not so well with ribbons. Put some small holes in floor up front to help air move down into open floor area in theory, how well it works not exactly sure.
intomysea usually i have seen isolated cabinets for 1x12 or 2x12 just because they don't move that much air, so you don't need a big box. important is if you like the sound :)
You can use a purge air supply using clean instrument air supply, but the tubing would have to be very long, and ran in a sin wave type pattern to isolate the sound of the air source, better to have the amp outside the box to be safe though. Some audio/ampliphiles believe in putting the amp head on top of the head because the weightg of the amp head effects the cabinets vibration, this belief is that the cab was designed to have the weight of the head on top.
Great video! But I was wondering, if i would build the space where the mic stands are standing smaller, and hang a little mic stand against the wall of the box, and mic it with a smaller mic (Sennheiser E 906 or something) and then mic the speaker from there. Would that influence the sound in a bad way? A smaller box makes it easier to tour and play gigs. Thank you!
Dude, if you are going to make something like this you need to already have the knowledge of what thickness of panels to use and what type of insulation.
Total overkill on this isocabinet, lol, but I love it!! If you want to minimize low end, put a 1x10 cabinet with a Celestion Vintage 10 (60-watt) into the isobox you made. I've seen too many isolation cabinets where guys are throwing 100-watt tube amps into Vintage 30s and expecting the volume in the room to be whisper quiet. Physics just don't work that way. Also, casters on the bottom will drastically cut some of the low-end resonance. That or put a used car tire on the bottom.
Not over kill if you MTR a band in a smaller studio situation. I had a medium sized studio and was able to track everyone (except final vocals) in one shot. A band could come in and hammer out a solid 6 to 8 song demo in as many hours. If they didn't suck. :)
God, what a wanker thing for me to say. I forgot I'd watched this three years ago and now just chilled out with the sweet riffs. I guess the cymbals still come through a bit, but why did I say so in the first place? Bad, stupid dave.
