Drum Room Project :: Clean the Ceiling

Continuing with the home studio project.  The basement started with a bunch of junk all over the ceiling in the basement.  More lights than I would think necessary, and the majority of those are he unpleasant florescent lights.  The cobwebs and dust did not come through in the photos, but I spent a fair amount Read More …

Drum Room Project :: Hang some foam

Various foam pictures.  I packed this stuff everywhere.  2 Full walls of these, and another fair chunk on the ceiling after hanging curtains and some other rugs and blankets.     Back to the Drum Room Project Table of Contents.  

Drum Room Project :: Cleaning the floor a bit

A quick post this time. Just a small post on the floor, so you can see how it started.  There are some new rugs now, by the time this post comes out, so I will add those as I get them up.  I have been busy working on other parts of the family basement.  Non-music Read More …

Drum Room Project :: Make a new ceiling

I know the curtains post, came before this one.  Things are all jumbled up right now.  I need a better media organization system, than the current one. Anyway this post highlights the building the ceiling portion of this task.  This was all basically from found lumber.  The sheets of plywood came from a friend who no Read More …

Some Kick Drum EQ Tips

More notes to myself… (and the other bedroom producers out there.) These are some of the Kick Drum EQ Tips from some recent videos.  I have yet to test these out, so YMMV. With the bass drum there could almost be a problem around 300 Hz to 600 Hz. Check the EQ. How do the Read More …

Drum Room Project :: Hang Some Curtains

Drums can be quite loud, especially when you have a spouse, children, and various animals in your house as well.  The dog is not fond of the drum set at all.  My thinking, as flawed as it may be, is that it will take many layers of objects and surfaces, along with types and angles in Read More …

Notes :: Tune the Drums

When you are tuning drums make sure that you do cross tension. Meaning that you start with the lug nut furthest across from you give it a 1/2 a turn, then go across from that do half a turn, across from that half a turn. It ends up being a star pattern on the drums.. Read More …

EQ Tips

– Less is more with all things equalization. If you are making big changes such as more than a 3dB raise then look to getting a better source sound. If it does not sound good going in to the processor, it will not sound good coming out. There are cases, where you do want a Read More …