Haven't seen the movie. But, I have been there, and have been around
tons of folks who have been there.

It is not that the egg cartons make for a proper studio. However, back
in the day that is all that we had and all that we could afford on a
shoestring budget. Of course we aspired to more appropriate and even
luxurious studios. Gotta start somewhere, though :-)

More importantly, however, it was (and is) ultimately about the music
and we had pride even in our makeshift studios, our mostly 2nd hand
equipment and our music. Guys, think back to some of the songs that we
made in some really crummy spaces and on crummy equipment!

You have me thinking, David. For the next studio I design for a client,
I think I will go with a nostalgic egg-carton look/feel - ha ha.

Hassan

David Grant wrote:
What I used was actually a 36-egg "tray"... they were about 12x12"
and hard as a rock, around 3/16 of an inch thick. They called them
cardboard, but it was some type of molded paper product that had
a solid consistency.

DM

On second thought I think they were using those thick cup holders like they
have at drive throughs... unless they were ostritch-egg cartons..

Regardless, while the studio guy's nailing them to the wall the pimp/rapper
character asks him what he's doing. His reply is "poor man's
soundproofing" - my nose thereafter filled with cherry coke.