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mark007 · 27th December 2009

thanks

yes it's a low ceiling space, but it's rather good acoustically (not auralex stuff - but rather custom build panels covered with gilford&maine fabric) as the person who designed and treated it is a guy who has over 30-40 experience designing concert halls.

like I already specified before, it's for voiceover purposes - i don't think they need 20 foot ceilings for that. It was never meant to be a "studio" - but a high room speficially designed for voice recording purposes. As a "vocal" booth, i think it's much better than a 4x4 whisper room as some people use. And, the room is extremely quiet. Computer is not in the same room and no outside noise gets in as walls and windows are double (box inside a box construction).

And no, gear is not cheap - john hardy preamp and lavry converters are not low budget. As for the mic, I have a $4,000 one - no way I'm leaving this lying around.

Thanks for input - i'll follow your advice and "test" the market first - as a matter of fact, I just found a site of a local place that actually does rents out rehearsal rooms (without a engineer and with gear of much lower quality) and for a 10x16 room they charge between $10-$15/hour. So I guess $10/hour is a very reasonable price in my case - it's not a big revenue but in my case the studio is just sitting not being used for a good part of the day, if it could bring me in even $100-$200 a month - why not, at the end of the year that's a new piece of gear.

27th December 2009	#14
mark007 Gear maniac Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 159 Thread Starter	thanks yes it's a low ceiling space, but it's rather good acoustically (not auralex stuff - but rather custom build panels covered with gilford&maine fabric) as the person who designed and treated it is a guy who has over 30-40 experience designing concert halls. like I already specified before, it's for voiceover purposes - i don't think they need 20 foot ceilings for that. It was never meant to be a "studio" - but a high room speficially designed for voice recording purposes. As a "vocal" booth, i think it's much better than a 4x4 whisper room as some people use. And, the room is extremely quiet. Computer is not in the same room and no outside noise gets in as walls and windows are double (box inside a box construction). And no, gear is not cheap - john hardy preamp and lavry converters are not low budget. As for the mic, I have a $4,000 one - no way I'm leaving this lying around. Thanks for input - i'll follow your advice and "test" the market first - as a matter of fact, I just found a site of a local place that actually does rents out rehearsal rooms (without a engineer and with gear of much lower quality) and for a 10x16 room they charge between $10-$15/hour. So I guess $10/hour is a very reasonable price in my case - it's not a big revenue but in my case the studio is just sitting not being used for a good part of the day, if it could bring me in even $100-$200 a month - why not, at the end of the year that's a new piece of gear.