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The home recordist is usually
working with a limited amount of space. Often the live musician performing is in the
same room as the console and the musician is playing in the corner or across the room.
There's not a lot of room for big baffles, like there is in a larger professional
recording studio. |
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Big baffles can be expensive,
even when built with minimal costs, and for what? To take up most of the limited
space that a home recordist has - naturally. |
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So I decided to design a home
baffling system that the home recordist can actually use. The system I designed will
fit into any setup and cost a mere $3.00 (or $5.00 if you don't watch costs).
Probably everything you need can be picked up at your local dollar store. |
One takes a corner of the room
and hangs blankets 6 to 8 inches away from the wall. This "L" shaped area
has reduced leakage of other sounds in the room because the sound waves have to travel
through the blanket to the wall and back through the blanket to form a sound reflection.
The air space between the blanket and the wall helps make the blanket effective.
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will hold the blankets. You use things like clothespins to keep up the blankets.
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Needless to say everyone has
blankets and you can't use your sleeping blanket while you're recording. You
would want to use the thickest ones or even have two layers of blankets {two thin blankets
work better than one thick one, by the way]. |
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So your little corner becomes
your baffled-off area and things sound better there and have less leakage. |
