Echo in the studio

[drandolph]

Good new everyone!

As you can imagine running a studio is very expensive and takes time to make changes. I have had proposals for sound dampening the acoustics of the studio space on my desk since before the paint dried on the walls. However with time and money being an issue it never happened.

Well today the budget has been approved and the materials have been ordered. Which is a great thing! We will continue to try additional techniques till the materials arrive but the audio will get better in the future.

If you are interested we are using duct liner to cover our ceiling which from our research is the primary reason we are having most of the echo. It is a nice 1 inch thick fiber material with a plastic backing for mounting. With a noise reduction coefficient of .75 the echo should disappear for the most part. A NRC of 0 means full reflection while a 1 means full absorption. So a NRC of .75 with a sweet spot above 1KHz of .99 makes it a great cost effective solution for echo reduction.

[nextgenxbox]

Sweet! Go David!

[maubrowncow]

Fantastic!

[tokenuser]

Wow. Talk about bootstrapping a studio on a budget. I hope you write the experience up in a book, it would make for informative and interesting reading.

[jfwoodland]

Sounds like you doods have it all under control! I was hoping you would put out a request for a sound engineer to come from Michigan and help. Dammitt.

1K is a pretty good place for the subtraction you're looking for (at least it sounds like it when I listen to the recordings) - hopefully it works out in real life like it does on paper.

Regardless, Dave, you have done a great job with the budget you have had to work with. On top of that, I can tell from watching all these shows that you guys are having a blast doing what you do. THAT's why I enjoy watching this stuff.

Echos aside..........aside..........aside........aside

-W

[jlouderb]

Wow. Talk about bootstrapping a studio on a budget. I hope you write the experience up in a book, it would make for informative and interesting reading.

Yeah, he definitely should. I'll probably come off as the villian (YOU WANT HOW MUCH MONEY!!!!!?????), but it's a good tale.

Thanks to DR for making it happen, hopefully some of our interim steps will make it better before we lower the ceiling (the opposite, apparently, of raising the roof...)

jim

[firestonex]

Who's the best Podcast Studio in the world?? You guys are!!!!

[firestonex]

Thanks to DR for making it happen, hopefully some of our interim steps will make it better before we lower the ceiling (the opposite, apparently, of raising the roof...)

jim


Lol. Ok Jim, you made me laugh... That's one for you...


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FirestoneX

[kronos6948]

Awesome.

As a joke, (I can see Martin asking for this to be done), in post production, someone should crank the reverb so it sounds like the show (or at least part of it) was done in the Grand Canyon, and have the mix so wet that it drowns out the dry track.

Or make a funny promo of the before and after using that effect, and then the after could be the sound of breathing, whilst superimposing the photo of that recently built anechoic chamber. Have the host covered in acoustical foam (or at least that egg crate stuff that you could use for bedding since it's cheaper) for comic effect.

[kidblast]

Thanks for the update.

[md2389]

Wow. Talk about bootstrapping a studio on a budget. I hope you write the experience up in a book, it would make for informative and interesting reading.

Hell, he needs to write a book on his A/V experience period. :)

[mayor_mccheese]

David,

Thank you for doing everything you (and others) can for making Rev3 content a better experience. I have no doubt that there's so much more going on than we'll ever know. As an audio guy/musician, I appreciate the effort to clean up the echo (in a tall, open area with hard surfaces...it ain't exactly easy). Acoustic treatment, much like all things tech, can get esoteric and expensive but it sounds like you guys have found a cost-effective (and most importantly, effective) solution.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing you and Patrick on more Systm!

[andreparris]

Great work DR & team. The audio on the dig reel #3 sounded much beter.

[fishtoprecords]

Did you consider Ethan Winer's Real Traps? He has been active in the recording world for at least a decade, and started selling them out of his basement a while back. Great guy. The company is taking off, mostly word of mouth, but the Audiophile folks are starting to notice.

Of course, with sufficiently good looking hosts, no one will notice the sound.

[mikec]

Did you consider Ethan Winer's Real Traps? He has been active in the recording world for at least a decade, and started selling them out of his basement a while back. Great guy. The company is taking off, mostly word of mouth, but the Audiophile folks are starting to notice.

Of course, with sufficiently good looking hosts, no one will notice the sound.


TV studios have several differences from recording studios, namely lights and lighting grids and cameras and camera operators. When you add sets, that usually have monitors in them, you get lots of surfaces where sound can bounce around.