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  • From: Baby Messy <bilboa AT baggins.con>
  • To: ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: Baffling
  • Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:55:34 -0500

This is great. Thank you. I think this might even be more elaborate than
I require. I was going to see if I could build or attain two panels that
I could put behind me when i record vocals (the main reason for this new
and aching need) but these are good guts.



grady wrote:
> Hmm, yeah, I think that's where I got mine as well. There are a ton of
> plans floating around on the web; the ones I used, which I can't
> currently locate, essentially have you build a big box (depending on the
> size of your walls, maybe 4x6 feet, as it's easiest to use multiples of
> the 2x4' fiberglass pieces) ~ 6" deep out of plywood (that is, plywood
> on the "skinny" sides, so the 4x6 foot faces are open). Staple
> chickenwire on one of the open sides. Load in your compressed
> fiberglass, and then staple chickenwire on the other open side to hold
> it all in place. Cover with a loose-weave burlap (or you can go with a
> tighter weave, like maybe those t-shirt-fabric bedsheets, and then do
> burlap over that, if you're worried about little fiberglass particles
> floating around). Screw some diagonals on the back to keep it from
> flopping around, and then hang the whole thing on the wall.
>
> I have 3 of these on the walls, plus I wound up sewing the excess
> fiberglass boards into big fabric bags & then suspending them from the
> ceiling. Our room wound up deader than one might like, but that's
> primarily because it's so small that I can't afford to have it any
> live-er than it is. Either way, I didn't spend much money at all on the
> whole project, so you can always buy/build as much or more than you need
> & then not use some of it.
>
> The other thing I built that I use all the time & really like are some
> small-ish (maybe 3'x4') floorstanding dividers. I got some 1x2s, some
> quarter-round molding, some sheetrock, some more chickenwire, some
> regular pink-stuff fiberglass, and some fabric. I built frames out of
> the 1x2s, nailed in quarter-round on all four inner faces so that the
> round side faces out & the flat is about 1/3rd of the way in. Lay in a
> sheet of sheetrock cut to fit the frame, then nail in more quarter-round
> to hold it securely in place. Lay some pink-stuff fiberglass down and
> then staple chickenwire across it to hold it in place. Cover the whole
> thing with fabric. Before I assembled mine I also cut some 1x2 "feet"
> and bolted them on 2 of the faces so that I can stand them up longway or
> tall-way.
>
> These work great for just-enough-isolation to keep one amp from bleeding
> into another's mic. The sheetrock is dense enough to stop the mids, and
> the fiberglass knocks down the highs. And they're small/thin enough that
> I can slide them behind some furniture when they're not in use.
>
> Of course, if you don't intend to ever record more than one instrument
> at a time, they'd be less useful.
>
> Ross
>
> david gourley wrote:
>> Baby Messy <bilboa AT baggins.con> put forth the notion in...news:45846a4b$0
>> $4919$4c368faf AT roadrunner.com:
>>
>>> Does anyone local sell baffling for, say, home recording? Or is there a
>>> better way?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> gilbertneal.net
>>
>> Specialty Products on Sunrise Ave. in Raleigh has the Manville equivalent
>> to the Corning 703 rigid fiberglass, if you're building anything.
>>
>> I got 2' x 4' pieces from there at about $8 /sheet.
>>
>> david




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