New music space - or 'A long list of compromises'

[Sonic Mountain]

Bonus if you go off the deep end you’ve got your own padded cell....

[king casey]

Bonus if you go off the deep end you’ve got your own padded cell....

and nobody will hear the (hi fidelity) screams.

cheers, Mark.

[Simon Barden]

Bonus if you go off the deep end you’ve got your own padded cell....

If?

IF?

[DrNomis_44]

I've had to make a huge number of compromises in my little home studio in my flat, mainly due to the fact that the unit I'm living in is basically government housing, so one of the compromises I have to make is I have to either keep the volume down, or mix using headphones so that my neighbors don't end-up complaining about the noise levels, funnily enough, they make way more noise than I do, another compromise is that I can't really do any amp-micing cause of the traffic noise from outside, so I have to rely on using amp-plugins, the room I'm in tends to sound a bit bright and live so I need to put-up some sound-deadening material, and I don't know how Territory Housing would feel about that, one of these days I'll have to get my own place, but for now I have to work with what I've got.

[Simon Barden]

I've had to make a huge number of compromises in my little home studio in my flat, mainly due to the fact that the unit I'm living in is basically government housing, so one of the compromises I have to make is I have to either keep the volume down, or mix using headphones so that my neighbors don't end-up complaining about the noise levels, funnily enough, they make way more noise than I do, another compromise is that I can't really do any amp-micing cause of the traffic noise from outside, so I have to rely on using amp-plugins, the room I'm in tends to sound a bit bright and live so I need to put-up some sound-deadening material, and I don't know how Territory Housing would feel about that, one of these days I'll have to get my own place, but for now I have to work with what I've got.

Thick duvets/doonas make good temporary sound absorbing devices. The thicker the better - but you may struggle to get a thick one in Darwin! No real use for reducing bass frequencies but good for reducing reflections in the mids and trebles. You can hang them off mic stands or clothes racks, or off furniture etc. That should stop the room being too bright and reverberant.

[DrNomis_44]

Thick duvets/doonas make good temporary sound absorbing devices. The thicker the better - but you may struggle to get a thick one in Darwin! No real use for reducing bass frequencies but good for reducing reflections in the mids and trebles. You can hang them off mic stands or clothes racks, or off furniture etc. That should stop the room being too bright and reverberant.

I'm seriously toying with the idea of buying a carpet to put on my studio room floor for a start, going to see if I can buy some new curtains as well, I was going to buy some anyway, but cheers for that.

[Simon Barden]

Even a rug will do. If you ever record an acoustic guitar in there, having a hard floor is a good thing, so a rug that can be removed is often recommended.

[DrNomis_44]

Even a rug will do. If you ever record an acoustic guitar in there, having a hard floor is a good thing, so a rug that can be removed is often recommended.

Yep, the floor, ceiling, and walls are all hard concrete, all the walls are 90 degrees to each other too, the floor and ceiling are parallel to each other, probably explains why the room is so bright and live.

[blinddrew]

So this evening I set the desk up and that end of the room is looking a bit more like a studio and a bit less like a building site!

[Sonic Mountain]

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