Key posts: Mastering/Mix Room w/Vocal Booth

Substantial posts by aswhitehead, who started the thread, and by the forum’s most active contributors. 13 of 36 posts are listed.

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  • aswhitehead, 23 May 2009After being in a temporary Mastering space for 3 years we figured it was time to build a new room. My partner and I have been operating a dedicated mastering room for…
  • aswhitehead, 23 May 2009John suggested that we remove the drywall on the ceiling at 7.5 ft and investigate turning the whole room into a cathedral ceiling. We had our carpenter look at the…
  • aswhitehead, 23 May 2009Our next job was tackling the framing. This was tough but our carpenter did a great job. Everything was on an angle! Here is the front wall. We still have to frame up 2…
  • aswhitehead, 24 May 2009John, We are almost complete! We have to finish the timber on the front wall and install some trimwork. We have someone building a custom desk for our equipment. After…
  • aswhitehead, 31 July 2009Wanted to add some updates. We are actually finished with the construction of the room. But I don't want to put the finished pictures up yet. I thought it would be…
  • aswhitehead, 31 July 2009We caulked every joint, seam, etc in the room. Here is my partner caulking in the bottom of the speaker platforms. External image, not preserved — original:…
  • aswhitehead, 31 July 2009Here is the rockwool in the slot resonators External image, not preserved — original: http://www.arejayinc.com/ftm/19_RightSlotRockwool.jpg External image, not preserved…
  • aswhitehead, 31 July 2009Here are the boxes we built to hold the speakers rigid. They are a very tight fit. The bottom part of the box is filled with concrete and everything is glued and…
  • aswhitehead, 31 July 2009Slats on right slot resonator and cloth on back wall (taken with cellphone). External image, not preserved — original: http://www.arejayinc.com/ftm/29_Slats.jpg Putting…
  • aswhitehead, 31 July 2009My father-in-law and I built a custom desk for the mastering room. This is during construction and does not show the 2 angled racks that were added to the top. We…
  • aswhitehead, 31 July 2009We finally finished the cosmetics of the room and were able to move in! :yahoo: Its almost impossible to believe we fit a mastering room AND a vocal booth into a space…
  • aswhitehead, 2 August 2009Thanks John & Ro! The argosy replica was kind of a "build it as you go" project. I had put together 2 argosy's before so I knew how they were constructed. The width was…
  • Soundman2020, 26 August 2009That's not really the acoustic equivalent of a slot resonator. It would be more like lining up several bottles of different sizes next to each other, and blowing across…