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Summary: Learn what components to use when building a sound booth for a professional recording studio in this free how-to video clip.
Matt Bodi is a music producer and owner of Up All Night Productions, a professional recording studio with locations in Miami and New York City. He works with up and coming recording...read more
" I’m Matt Bodi with Up All Night Productions located in Miami, Florida. You can find us on the web at www.upallnightpro.com. I’m going to show you here the recording booth. Now this recording booth is completely insulated and soundproof. We built this from scratch. It has fiberglass, sheet rock, something called sound stop, which is a special sheet rock like material that actually traps the sound within the particles. Now obviously you know esthetically we designed it also to be pleasing to the eyes but in terms of sound, you know, it is soundproof. I would like to show the glass here. Now this glass if you notice, there are two pieces of glass here. There is one piece that’s slanted and there is another piece that’s straight. And what that does is that traps the sound inside the two pieces of glass so you have the slanted piece, and you have the straight piece and within that the sound is unable to escape. "
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seanyatp said
on 3/11/2009 I sort of agree. The only reason you would slant the glass is to avoid having a single mode in the booth (sometimes they make booths odd shapes, but usually it's just more effective to make them larger or have better attenuation surfaces) The only reason I can see to slant one and not the other would be to avoid having a single mode between the 2 pieces of glass. You could just make sure your panes are close enough to be above the cutoff for audible sound (~0.35in @ 20kHz). If you want to build a good recording booth, multiple pieces of different materials, oriented different directions, with air gaps between some of them is the best way to go.
studiochris said
on 8/2/2008 Both the pieces of glass are supposed to be slanted.... and they are that way in order to prevent standing waves ad false early reflections.