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My home studio is basically a side-flat that the previous house owner built onto the house. It is quite a nice size actually, and I can get a lot of gear in it. It is divided into two. A larger living space with a kitchen area, and a small bathroom with a bath tub, shower, toilet, and even a small clothes washing machine!
I've just been storing tons of junk in there for over a year now. All the boxes for my synths and pedals, an Alesis Strike Pro SE which I don't use anymore, and cables and just... yeah, like I say. Junk.
I've wanted to try turning it into a small iso-room for a guitar cab for quite a while now. So today, I though sod it... let's do it. So I've cleaned it out....
I've packed the tub out with a ton of foam from the boxes I cut down. But also there's a few guitar cases in there, as well as a nice layer across the bottom of Acoustilay 15.
If you don't know about this stuff, it is pretty amazing. My last studio, I did a whole floor with it, which really cut down the over the air noise and vibration transference. I had a bunch left over and so I've whacked it into the tub. Basically, anything fairly heavy and dense (the foam isn't dense, but I think it will help cut down on reflections) to try and reduce the resonance boom of the tub.
I even whacked an old bass case that I don't use on top of it all:
Then after that, a bit of worktop:
Which only just about fit because of the tap!!
Finally, then a piece of acoustilay 15 on top, and a 4x12 sitting on top of it:
It is reasonably stable, although I wish the worktop were a bit deeper. But anyway.. it'll do....
The next part of this plan is to put some rockwool style insulation into the room. Around the cab, and on the opposite wall, so I can effectively reduce the reflections within the room.
But this will allow me to perma-mic a cab, run some cables into the main room, close the door, and have a "live room" experience, right at home.
Fortunately there are no houses that are close to this room, just our driveway at the front. There's an airvent that I think I need to close off as well, although that might increase damp in there, so I may just leave it for now.
Anyway... proper crufty, but this should be a decent approach I think.
I've just been storing tons of junk in there for over a year now. All the boxes for my synths and pedals, an Alesis Strike Pro SE which I don't use anymore, and cables and just... yeah, like I say. Junk.
I've wanted to try turning it into a small iso-room for a guitar cab for quite a while now. So today, I though sod it... let's do it. So I've cleaned it out....
I've packed the tub out with a ton of foam from the boxes I cut down. But also there's a few guitar cases in there, as well as a nice layer across the bottom of Acoustilay 15.
If you don't know about this stuff, it is pretty amazing. My last studio, I did a whole floor with it, which really cut down the over the air noise and vibration transference. I had a bunch left over and so I've whacked it into the tub. Basically, anything fairly heavy and dense (the foam isn't dense, but I think it will help cut down on reflections) to try and reduce the resonance boom of the tub.
I even whacked an old bass case that I don't use on top of it all:
Then after that, a bit of worktop:
Which only just about fit because of the tap!!
Finally, then a piece of acoustilay 15 on top, and a 4x12 sitting on top of it:
It is reasonably stable, although I wish the worktop were a bit deeper. But anyway.. it'll do....
The next part of this plan is to put some rockwool style insulation into the room. Around the cab, and on the opposite wall, so I can effectively reduce the reflections within the room.
But this will allow me to perma-mic a cab, run some cables into the main room, close the door, and have a "live room" experience, right at home.
Fortunately there are no houses that are close to this room, just our driveway at the front. There's an airvent that I think I need to close off as well, although that might increase damp in there, so I may just leave it for now.
Anyway... proper crufty, but this should be a decent approach I think.
