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Space required for drum booth
Hello,
I'm going to make some changes in my studio and want some feed back about the minimum/maximum/best space needed for a drum booth. Please drop what you think about best height, how to make it not-so-death sounding etc...
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Re: Space required for drum booth
Any body?? [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]
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Re: Space required for drum booth
I think typically you wouldn't want to make a drum "booth" per se. What you really need is a drum ROOM. I'd say the ceiling should be no less than 10 feet high (preferably angled from 12-14 feet); and the room dimensions should be no smaller than (maybe) 15 x 15 (preferably not a square room). These are real ballpark figures.
I haven't built my dream studio yet, but I would like to think my drum room would be a good bit bigger than the above figures. I just thought I'd throw 'em out there for others to comment on. As for materials, I'd say a combination of wood and stone. Later, Glenn |
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Re: Space required for drum booth
Gosh, Camilo -- I guess you and I are the only ones interested in discussing drum rooms. I'll bump it back to the top and see what happens this time!
Glenn |
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Re: Space required for drum booth
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I think you can get good drum sounds in any room as long as you're not trying to capture a certain ambience. If you needed a real hall sound on the drums even the best verb on the market may not work depending on how picky you are. If you've got a small space 15 by 15 or less get rid of flutter echos and use anything to get the bass under control. If there are rooms adjacent to your room mic them and compress those and mix them in with the room. Yeah it's great to have a a non-parrallel room with brick and wood thats floated on rubber but there are so many variables. I like smaller rectangular rooms. There tighter and I can add the verb later. Height can be an issue. The mics mix themselves with more space. Then again you can close mic the cymbals with hyper or cardoid mics that will work. Listen to the Strokes record. ANYTHING can get on the radio if the song is catchy and the singer sells it. Tim |
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Re: Space required for drum booth
We've done it with about 100 sq ft of space.
The walls are double framed. The ceiling is about 12 ft and is the bass trap. There are no parallel walls. The room is medium dead. A room of this size should not be ambient as it will sound pretty much like a shower stall. And it will sound that way forever. If you want to capture any real useable ambience you need a really large space. I would say at least 500 sq ft. So if it's going to be a small space, make it deadish, practice with all types of micing techniques and use outboard verb.
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