Mobile Recording Truck Design

giles117 · Post by **giles117** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 9:45 am

Anyone know of a site where I can find such designs. I am planning to build my replacement recording truck soon just curious as to what designs may be out there.

My last one was very dead on purpose. Much to my lack of knowledge 7 years ago. With a lot of bass trapping in the front and back of the truck.

Just curious who has taken this design to the next level.

I thought I saw a BBC site with the info but can't recall the site.

Bryan

BTW this truck has a 24x8x8 box

As in my last truck, I want to

a) Float the floor
b) Drop the Ceiling

All 2x4 Construction however.

How realistic with a box of this depth and width would it be to create angled walls and soffit mount speakers

This unit will house twin D8b's so space is of course very precious

I want my truck to remain unique in that it truly IS a studio on wheels and not just a mild retrofit of a truck to do mobile recording.

ACOUSTICS are PREMIER.

audio hobbit · Post by **audio hobbit** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 11:50 am

hope this ok John, but since I found you by seeing a link over on Jules Forum, you may want to check out Steve Remote's " Remote recording forum over at http://gearslutz.com/board/forumdisplay ... forumid=21

He is a wiz and very respected Mobile guy.. Also very curious to see the suggestions here.. this is a tricky one!

giles117 · Post by **giles117** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 12:08 pm

I don't think so, my previous truck was done the auralex way (modified) Everything was covered with fabric and framed in. I have an idea for a design, just curious as to other options before I settle.

Of Course in this Biz, Timothy Powell is My 2nd Idol. The 1st Is Hewitt from remote recording Services.

Big Ups to those guys for encouraging a struggling newbie a few years back when by Irk!!! DUmp heap of a truck broke down the day before a recording.

Had to gut the truck and move everything by hand, TOOOOO much work.

Post by **John Sayers** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 1:02 pm

hope this ok John,

cool mate - no problem - thanks for the link

cheers
john

giles117 · Post by **giles117** » Mon Aug 11, 2003 11:46 pm

I have decided to build according to the studio design I used for my in house studio.

Save for 2' of width and the back wall design, everything else will stay the same.

Bryan Giles

DDev · Post by **DDev** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 12:13 am

Giles,

I've been following the conversations over at the Gearslutz forum, also, and recently read an interview with Tim Powell, so my curiosity is piqued.

How do you lay out a studio in a 24x8x8 trailer? I guess I'm looking at it from a complete amateur's perspective, but how much of the space actually gets used for studio, and how much is actually used for other stuff? I've seen a couple of pictures from some trucks, but never seen an overall layout, and my curiosity is killing me.

Thanks,
Darryl.....

giles117 · Post by **giles117** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 2:25 am

My Last truck used about 2' fo space in the rear for storage and cables (snake, etc...)

12' of space for the mix position and equipment racks. the rest was for seating.

Bryan

giles117 · Post by **giles117** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 2:25 am

I had considered a small vocal booth in the rear 4'x8' I might do this one like that.

Bryan

DDev · Post by **DDev** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 2:48 am

Bryan,

Thanks for the follow-up.

I currently do all my recording "remotely", in a way. I have a small mixing studio at home and just haul my Mackie MDR and a small Fostex mixer out to wherever I'm recording at. When I record at church I just haul the recorder since I have a patchbay connected to the direct outs of our Midas Legend board.

This is working really well for now, but after reading the interview with Tim Powell the old brain started thinking about what it would take to do this. Oh well, maybe someday...

By the way, I noticed that you list Detroit as your locale. I grew up in Lapeer (60 miles north of there), but haven't been up much the last couple of years.

Anyway, good luck with your new vehicle. I was also interested in your report on your recording with your new Mac. Always leery of using a computer for that many live tracks, so it's good to hear some positive feedback.

Darryl.....

giles117 · Post by **giles117** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 3:06 am

I learned that the environment plays a big part in how it all works together.

The fellas that recorded Beyonce's concert up here had major heat issues.

Personally I think they should have done it in Pro tools for OS X, but hey...

When DP 4.1 Comes out I will be willing to trust it. Cuz 4.01 feels really flakey to me

Bryan Giles

fathed · Post by **fathed** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 12:52 am

giles117 wrote:I learned that the environment plays a big part in how it all works together.

The fellas that recorded Beyonce's concert up here had major heat issues.

Personally I think they should have done it in Pro tools for OS X, but hey...

When DP 4.1 Comes out I will be willing to trust it. Cuz 4.01 feels really flakey to me

Bryan Giles

Live recording = some sort of tape for me .. Way to paranoid to use any Hard Disk recorder without a tape backup of some sort, Preferably DA 78s.

giles117 · Post by **giles117** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 4:14 am

Well I refuse to be bound by fear. Fear never got us ahead in anything in life. I have been successful at live to computer recording and love it. Less headache and maintenance on the gear.

Bryan Giles

So We Walk By Faith and Not By Sight
Perfect Love Casteth Out All fear.

Barefoot-Studio · Post by **Barefoot-Studio** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 9:39 am

DDev wrote:....By the way, I noticed that you list Detroit as your locale. I grew up in Lapeer (60 miles north of there), but haven't been up much the last couple of years....Darryl.....

I am also from the Detroit area originally, Birmingham to be exact. (I don't know if that's good or not

)

I worked at a summer camp in Lapeer in 1981. DBC, on Ferns Road, was the name then... I don't recall the current name.

Loved the night sky. Here in the NYC area, the night sky really sucks.

giles117 · Post by **giles117** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 11:33 pm

But the night sky is no where near as nice as it is up north.

Cool, you should come back some time.

Bryan Giles

DDev · Post by **DDev** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 2:36 am

Glad to see someone actually knows where Lapeer is. It gets old having to point at my hand whenever I try to describe it.

The stars were great (and definitely better the farther north you go) but what I really miss is the weather. I've been in Kansas for 18 years now and it is just too stinking hot and windy (an average summer day for us is 105 degrees with 20 mph winds). I'd love to have a couple of feet of snow in the winter, also (I lived in snowmobile country and loved it).

Ah well, choices in life lead us to places we never dreamed of.

I was supposed to come up this year for Christmas, but my brother moved from Auburn Hills to upstate Maine last year, so that's where we're headed.

Cheers,
Darryl.....