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(Darrell Klein) wrote in message . com...

Brian--Unless your mind-set on rec ording your cab with a lot of
genuine room noise, you can forget about spending all that cash on
sound isolation for the whole room and just build an isolation for the
cab. It basically involved building a floating box for the cab lined
with absorbtion with a whole or two for mic cables at the base and
enough room to be able to place your mics at a variety of distance
from the speakers. Just an idea, but it could save you a lotta cash
until you find a good direction to proceed.--MAtt

Brian, I have a similar room in the basement of my house. The walls
are painted cinderblock (concrete block) on two sides and hardwood
paneling on the other two. The floor is concrete covered by linoleum.
I use the 22' x 14' x 8' room as a tracking room.

After two months, I tried an experiment and bought some
commercial-grade but thin (low pile) carpet. I put that down without a
pad underneath. It will wear out a lot faster, but I wanted a minimal
taming of the room's hard reflective quality and it ended up fine. If
I had it to do over, I would leave about half of the area (10' x 14')
without the carpet to have a variety of area-sounds to use. I'm just
too lazy to try rolling up half the carpet as I have managed to fill
the area with equipment.

I may have simply gotten lucky, but it made the sound better. On the
other hand, I haven't had any comercial releases out of my basement
studio (but have released commercials!)