What you've found useful for wiring in rooms...
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 1:59 am
Hello All,
I am in the wiring stage of my new project studio and I was just looking for a quick bit of advice. I am look at 3 rooms... 1 dead room for recording vocals/guitars this room is 6 x 12, 1 drum/live room 12/10.5, 1 iso closet 6x6
I am using a 24 channel board and I wanted to set up XLR plates in each room to patch in sound to my control room.
In the dead room I was going to put 6 xlr connections with 4 1/4" returns.
In the live room I am looking at 15 xlrs with 4 1/4" returns
In the iso closet, 3 xlrs with 2 1/4" returns...
I wanted to do all these plates on standard 19" rack panels and build a box to house it in each room.. Is any of this overkill that you can see off the bat? Do you think that 6 XLR's in a vocal/guitar booth is too much or 15 in the drum room too few? I will mostly be recording small rock bands 3-4 piece, but I want to make it as flexible as possible. This is where I just wanted a few words of advice from seasoned professionals. I am upgrading from a 1 room project studio to a full tracking studio so this is my first attempt at something this large.
Also do you have any advice on where to pick up the XLR connectors and what series I should go for? I am looking at the Neutrik DL series.. they seem to be the most common and cost effective.
Any advice on my routing would be appreciated.
Thanks a bunch!
I am in the wiring stage of my new project studio and I was just looking for a quick bit of advice. I am look at 3 rooms... 1 dead room for recording vocals/guitars this room is 6 x 12, 1 drum/live room 12/10.5, 1 iso closet 6x6
I am using a 24 channel board and I wanted to set up XLR plates in each room to patch in sound to my control room.
In the dead room I was going to put 6 xlr connections with 4 1/4" returns.
In the live room I am looking at 15 xlrs with 4 1/4" returns
In the iso closet, 3 xlrs with 2 1/4" returns...
I wanted to do all these plates on standard 19" rack panels and build a box to house it in each room.. Is any of this overkill that you can see off the bat? Do you think that 6 XLR's in a vocal/guitar booth is too much or 15 in the drum room too few? I will mostly be recording small rock bands 3-4 piece, but I want to make it as flexible as possible. This is where I just wanted a few words of advice from seasoned professionals. I am upgrading from a 1 room project studio to a full tracking studio so this is my first attempt at something this large.
Also do you have any advice on where to pick up the XLR connectors and what series I should go for? I am looking at the Neutrik DL series.. they seem to be the most common and cost effective.
Any advice on my routing would be appreciated.
Thanks a bunch!