Foley Floor, Advice Please.

[magnet]

My partner and I are almost done building our 2 new post rooms and one of the booths will have a sectioned foley floor. The booth is approx 6' x8' and we will divide it into 3 sections or 5 sections.
What would you do? Is 3 larger pits better than 5 smaller ones? and other than gravel which we will keep in one of the pits full time. what other elements if any would you keep in the pit full time?
Any advice from the pros would be greatly appreciated.


thanks for your assistance

magnet mixerhands

[soundboy]

Cement, Dirt, wood floor, tile. Have some metal plates stowed for industrial and sci-fi FS. I hardly ever use gravel. If you are going to use two walkers, the pits should be big enough for two people to walk in place in.

[magnet]

Thanks Charles,
We got alot from your post. We will go with 3 pits and tile one of them.

Any other suggestions from any other pros.

thanks in advance

magnet mixerhands

[Berolzheimer]

If you can make sure your exterior surfaces, concrete, dirt, etc are anchored well into the ground or at least a big heavy slab of concrete. You don't want you ext footsteps to have any suspended floor resonances, kills the reality of it right away.

[santacore]

Hmmm, tough one, that's a small space. In my opinion the most used surfaces are cement(workiing directly on the slab is the best), dirt(you can always throw in gravel, leaves, and grass to taste), hard wood (though it will be tough to get a good sound out of such a small pit), and lastly carpet. Tile is nice to have but not essential, as you can usually cover that with the cement slab. Other essentials would be wood steps, metal steps, and sand. All those combined should cover most of your needs. Hope this helps. PM me if you have more specific questions.

John

[soundeziner]

Keep one pit empty. Makes it easier to clean up the broken glass.

[Dunebuggy]

nice fat hardwood floor is very useful

[starcrash13]

Four most common surfaces in my experience are gritty concrete, dirt, hardwood, and hard linoleum (or kitchen tile).

[minister]

Originally Posted by magnet

M The booth is approx 6' x8' and we will divide it into 3 sections or 5 sections.

this is pretty small. this is VO booth size.

even with 3 sections, they would have to be like
1.5'x2 in order for you to have ANY space in which to maneuver... that's pretty small... almost unusably so.

anyway you can make things bigger?

[soundboy]

Oh wow! Pascal. I so wish I had thought of using that pic as an icon! Brilliant inside joke!
6'X8' aint great, but if its all ya got...Your biggest problem is going to be near field reflections. You will have to close mic everything, and make sure your boxes aren't thumpy. If you can, surround your pits with sand. Pack it in there, so you don't hear the thump of the box. Otherwise you will have to roll off the low end of all your FS.