Guitar Isolation Booth's for home?

Welease

Does anyone have one for their home studio's? or maybe even for a commercial studio?

Have you found them useful? Have they changed the sound drastically? Any + / -'s that you know? Does making is smaller give it more undesired boomy sound?

I have been thinking of building for my home studio so i can continue to play longer into the evening.. but don't want to waste the money if they only sound good with 1000's of Euro's spent on space age materials...

While I have plenty of space here, i would be looking to keep it as small as possible (way smaller than a vocal booth). Probably big enough to hold a 1x12 and SM57 6-12 inches away.

The sleeping patterns of a 3 week old and a 20 month old are halting my quest for world dominition

dav nagle

Welease wrote: »

Does anyone have one for their home studio's? or maybe even for a commercial studio?

Have you found them useful? Have they changed the sound drastically? Any + / -'s that you know? Does making is smaller give it more undesired boomy sound?

I have been thinking of building for my home studio so i can continue to play longer into the evening.. but don't want to waste the money if they only sound good with 1000's of Euro's spent on space age materials...

While I have plenty of space here, i would be looking to keep it as small as possible (way smaller than a vocal booth). Probably big enough to hold a 1x12 and SM57 6-12 inches away.

The sleeping patterns of a 3 week old and a 20 month old are halting my quest for world dominition

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The simple answer is yes. Home booths are magic and can make a huge difference to the sound of home recordings.

Seziertisch

http://www.tube-town.net/ttstore/index.php/cat/c222_TTC-ISO-Cabs.html

Something like this might work well. Isobooths are a trick thing. Simply covering a place in Auralex or something isn't necessarily going to improve it in my experience. It might reduce what people outside are hearing but it can result in some weird resonances creeping in.

Otherwise you might consider trying one of the Palmer speaker emulators attached to your amp (one with speaker load emulation) and just go with that. They seem to get quite a bit of love and any samples I have heard have sounded good. If I was in your position that is what I would go for. http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/palmer-pdi-03/Aug-06/22574

Welease

Seziertisch wrote: »

http://www.tube-town.net/ttstore/index.php/cat/c222_TTC-ISO-Cabs.html

Something like this might work well. Isobooths are a trick thing. Simply covering a place in Auralex or something isn't necessarily going to improve it in my experience. It might reduce what people outside are hearing but it can result in some weird resonances creeping in.

Otherwise you might consider trying one of the Palmer speaker emulators attached to your amp (one with speaker load emulation) and just go with that. They seem to get quite a bit of love and any samples I have heard have sounded good. If I was in your position that is what I would go for. http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/palmer-pdi-03/Aug-06/22574

Yeah thats what i was worried about for the isobooth. I kinda assumed putting your cab in a small box must change the sound somewhat also. Might be worth building one for a laugh just too see...

The Palmer solution does look nice, but for 600 quid i would rather buy a new toy and just use ear muffs on the kids

PaulBrewer

A oft used technique with Electric Guitar Recording is a 57 on a cone, towards the centre for bright, towards the edge for a darker tone.

A cab in a sealed box could do this very well one would think.

I've not built one but I'd guess the two main issues are keeping the box sealed to get maximum attenuation and lots of internal damping to reduce/remove resonances.

Seziertisch

Welease wrote: »

Yeah thats what i was worried about for the isobooth. I kinda assumed putting your cab in a small box must change the sound somewhat also. Might be worth building one for a laugh just too see...

The Palmer solution does look nice, but for 600 quid i would rather buy a new toy and just use ear muffs on the kids

I dunno, the Palmer is also the kind of thing you could use at gigs. It is a fair whack of cash but if I was in your position I would say it would be an excellent investment, allowing you to do all your guitar recording through it. Just plug in, turn up and away you go. They also seem to hold their value.

If you decide to go the iso-cab route have a look around on line and see what people say. I kind of half suspect that there are certain dimensions and materials that come recommended for a job like this. You might also find that even with an iso cab, depending on how loud your amp goes, that the bleed out of it might be too much.