Comments for MineWurx Studio Echos

Comment on The Monster Sound Isolation Booth – Page 8 by Luis

Luis — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 08:15:03 +0000

Hi guys, I have been reading the post and it’s very interesting. I bought a demvox booth past year and I’m very happy with it, but this monster sound isolation booth is Amazing!!!

Comment on The Monster Sound Isolation Booth by MM

MM — Sat, 12 May 2012 02:26:53 +0000

The room still took some additional tuning to get it where it needed to be. The trouble with smaller spaces is they tend to sound “boothie” if there was such a word. When your voice is a little deeper you have to use different combos of acoustic material to get the right result. I wasn’t very happy with it until I added some much thicker – and far more expensive mid to low-range panels. Now I’m delighted with it. One issue with such an acoustically dead room is the the voice tends to sound a little dis-attached and not very “in the room” or present. Most of this can be made up for by paying attention to the mic proximity.

Comment on The Monster Sound Isolation Booth by Sebastian Giglio

Sebastian Giglio — Thu, 10 May 2012 00:13:57 +0000

How did the room sound? I have often been told that vocal booths that are too acoustically dead, sound unnatural and are “hard” for people to get used to and therefore hard to work in.

Comment on The Monster Sound Isolation Booth by MM

MM — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:58:54 +0000

The floor is built in the exact same fashion as the old one listed here: http://www.minewurx.com/echos/the-monster-sound-isolation-booth/

Comment on The Monster Sound Isolation Booth by Nick

Nick — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:26:27 +0000

Thanks. I surely will have a question of two over the upcoming weeks.
Question 1:
How does the floor construction differ from the wall construction? If you could be really specific regarding the individual layers, I’d be much appreciative.
Question 2:
How does the floating mechanism work? Is there a difference between its mechanism on the floor vs. the wall?

Comment on The Monster Sound Isolation Booth by MM

MM — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:36:01 +0000

Thank you for the kind words. Unfortunately the original sketches and drawings are gone – and this collection of pictures are all that is left. Most of the sizes of the materials are documented in this article. Give a shout if you need some help or have any questions.

Comment on The Monster Sound Isolation Booth by Nick

Nick — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:25:02 +0000

Would you be willing to part with plans for this booth?
I am a relative newbie to the booth building scene and your booth looks awewome.

Comment on The Monster Sound Isolation Booth – Page 3 by MM

MM — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:30:47 +0000

To case the window simply build the casement “around the glass” as in – build it to spec around the measurements of the glass.

Comment on The Monster Sound Isolation Booth – Page 3 by vladimir

vladimir — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 03:58:24 +0000

thanks for the tips, i want to use 1/4 inch laminated glass , two pieces, guys would that work out……how can i make my wood trim …any idea.

Comment on The Monster Sound Isolation Booth by MM

MM — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:40:24 +0000

It’s been a while – but This project ran around $1500 to $1800 (that’s being conservative as the wiring throws the cost up a bit.)
The part which takes the most time is building it while inside a tight, confined area. Even then – it went up in a few weeks.
I don’t really know about the man-hours. The work was grinding and slow when it came to putting this up.

Sad thing is – it’s all gone now. It was broken down about a year ago.

Comment on The Monster Sound Isolation Booth by Douglas

Douglas — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 08:24:46 +0000

Looks very impressive- I am envious.

Maybe I missed it, but what was the total cost and number of man-hours expended on this project?

Comment on The NEW MineWurx Studio – Home Voice Over Studio Wiring and Construction by voice over

voice over — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:00:27 +0000

Your workspace is absolutely great. I would like to have my studio look as good as yours soon.

Comment on The Monster Sound Isolation Booth – Page 6 by MM

MM — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:50:39 +0000

Normally heating the room isn’t the problem. The equipment usually does a good job of that. The best cooling solutions are much debated. Generally it’s going to come down to how much money you have.

Either you’re going to have to develop a design – or you’re going to have to find someone who can custom design a solution for you. Either one will cost money and depend on a lot of variables.

The biggest trick in quieting airflow for recording environments is slowing down the speed of the moving air before it enters the room, and still having enough force to circulate it through the room without having it SOUND like it is moving through the room.

Most HVAC specialists should understand that concept and be able to offer up some ideas.

Comment on The Monster Sound Isolation Booth – Page 2 by MM

MM — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:37:52 +0000

Brian – Sorry it took me forever to find your comment. As far as a mic that will work with your Mac – you can go universal with a MXL USB mic – but it depends on what you’re ultimately going to end up doing.

You can find more info on equipment here:
http://www.thevoiceovercoach.com/voiceoverblog/the-getting-started-in-voice-over-checklist/

Comment on The Monster Sound Isolation Booth – Page 8 by MM

MM — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:28:14 +0000

We discovered that having so many cables in the room was a waste. Any gear in the room will turn it into a furnace – and installing ventilation to make up for the gear just adds to the problem.

We’ve wrestled with the pass-through as well and we stuck with the same method (albeit less cables) for our second build.

I don’t know which pass-through you were looking at – but $450 is pretty heavy. I would think an adequate one could be soldered for less than 200. That is of course if you want to go through the expense and effort. We just bought really long, high-quality cables (gold-tipped Blue) and ran them through the wall.

My fear with a soldered pass-through is and always has been its susceptibility to RF interference. We have a radio station down the road that came through some of our solder work once and we changed it all out. Just food for thought.

Comment on The NEW MineWurx Studio – Home Voice Over Studio Wiring and Construction by MM

MM — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:55:17 +0000

Being a brand new mic I think the jury will be out for a while. It’s hard to tell until you can hear it in a head to head with other mics.

The one thing I observe right off the bat is that having a headphone cable swinging from it while you’re recording seems to be asking for noise problems. I just don’t see how it could be a good thing.

For people who have no other monitoring options it could be a useful thing – but think you will find most people in pro outfits snickering when they see it…

Comment on The Monster Sound Isolation Booth – Page 8 by Jasen

Jasen — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:20:09 +0000

Hi Guys,
I’ve read and re-read your build many times. On 10/11/09 My builder is starting on my room. I ended up selling the whisper room and I’m quite excited to get my room built. I decided to build a 7′x7′x9′or10′high room, basically using your build as my bible. The one question I’m still hung up on is the pass through for the cables. I understand how you did yours, but I truly want to have a pass through, because I’m not even sure what or how many cables and different devices I’m going to put in the room. I saw this pre-fab pass through on line from some audio company but they want like $427 bucks for it. It has 2 hinged doors and memory foam that seal in the cables. Any thoughts???
Thanks
Jasen

Comment on The NEW MineWurx Studio – Home Voice Over Studio Wiring and Construction by Arlen

Arlen — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:04:37 +0000

Hi! I’m from Australia. I am in the process of having a studio built in my garage for voice over recording. I have a Rode Podcaster mike which has a USB connection and a headphone jack built in which is very handy. I would like to know how the mike compares with others and whether its any good for my work. Thanks and best regards, Arlen.

Comment on The Monster Sound Isolation Booth – Page 8 by MM

MM — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:26:43 +0000

As far as a printable PDF? No – but that’s a good idea… You start looking for the donation button and I’ll start looking for the PDF…

Comment on The Monster Sound Isolation Booth – Page 8 by Ben

Ben — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:17:06 +0000

Thank you for such a great write up, do you have this on a pdf file so that I may print it out and have it available with me when I go shopping for the materials.

Thanks,

Ben