As I have been following this I am going to want to do mine as well
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I know that there is a local supplier for this because of recently building an MRI room and they had to get some for screw holes they had to cover to get it to not ground out!
Cheers Mitch
The entire room was copper shielded
My home studio will be shielded with thin aluminum panels, about .015" thick...
That should do wonders for interference, shouldn’t it ?
Cheers Mitch
It's what a lot of new studio designs are incorporating.
The one I just built in LA didn’t do anything like that at all but there were all kinds of double walls with all kinds of strange treatments
Acoustical design.
More like a dead room, don’t know how else to explain it
One of my studio colleagues owns his own studio in Burbank. He had to shield it extensively due to interference from Power 106 FM nearby...We work out of there a couple of days a week...
Between the double walls we had to tie them together with what I called motor mounts any penetration through the ceiling
(Fire sprinkler heads had to have a motor mount type device on the blocks that they attached to)
All wall covered in 5/8’s plywood, then some kind of rubber material that 100$ a roll then we added this cheap ass 3/16’s paneling, the recording rooms where dbl 3/4” plywood, and all doors in and out were double as well, double windows with one slanted, was a lot of work, went back an forth there for at least 7 months
I have since deleted all the photos from that job but I did share a boatload of it on MF
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Ok, shielded, re-assembled, tested.
Yes, it definitely cut what little noise to begin with. I still am picking up a small amount. According to the experts (local) what I have left is R.F. generated, from my computer monitor, or maybe my phone.
I will be removing these from the equation, and then another test.
Let me reiterate, the noise I'm trying to eliminate is on recorded tracks playback only. I'm fine with the sound playing solo or with the guys, it's just me trying to make my tracks best quality I can.
I WILL def be doing this to my Strat, because well...…. Leo Fender lol. Single coils.
So onward we go, will give everyone sitreps as needed.
P.S. @Mitch Pearrow SJMP do it, you'd have this project done and over with in no time.
Yes, it definitely cut what little noise to begin with. I still am picking up a small amount. According to the experts (local) what I have left is R.F. generated, from my computer monitor, or maybe my phone.
I will be removing these from the equation, and then another test.
Let me reiterate, the noise I'm trying to eliminate is on recorded tracks playback only. I'm fine with the sound playing solo or with the guys, it's just me trying to make my tracks best quality I can.
I WILL def be doing this to my Strat, because well...…. Leo Fender lol. Single coils.
So onward we go, will give everyone sitreps as needed.
P.S. @Mitch Pearrow SJMP do it, you'd have this project done and over with in no time.
Parallel surfaces are undesirable in a recording room. Parallel surfaces, like walls, ceiling/floor, and windows create resonant standing waves...certain frequencies will pile up, and cancel out, in certain spots.
Ideally, you will not find a 90° corner, or a plumb wall.
True the acoustic engineering rep said that they where going to use diffuser panels at all rite angle corners and ceilings, but that was not us, nor where we going to be involved with the echo room they where going to do in house, we
also did a lot of retro fit work on the upstairs band housing, apartments
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Righton, I have a book that details room treatment.
This is definitely electrical, my next big push on the bedroom studio is the treatment.
This has been a fun journey so far, just not rushing, trying to learn a lesson at every hurdle.
Just about anything with a transformer in it can be a culprit...hence my mention of dimmer switches. Tube amp transformers and stuff throw out a ton of noise.