Diy 2x12 guitar cabinet plans
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2 X 12" Guitar Speaker Cabinet Box
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If you see it again it's because something has changed so please set your preferences accordingly. Page 1 of 2. Building an Isolation Box. I tried a search on this but found few answers to some questions I have. So… I'm planning on building 3 isolation boxes for speaker cabinets. Not the little ones that house one 12" speaker. I'm gonna put 4X12 cabinets in it. It doesn't need to be perfectly quiet but the quieter the better.
My thinking is that a box inside another box would be best. I believe I have the room for that much space. Do I need to make each box really thick? But he didn't build a box in a box and he didn't say how quiet it is either. What would you put between the box in a box? Rubber spacers? Leave it as air? I've also heard of putting sand in between the spaces.
Is sheet rock not good to use? Is heavier wood better? I'm not planning on moving them. MDF vs Standard particle board? Any specific answers would be really helpful.
Can I just stack Rockwool together like in this video? YouTube - fabricaudio test 1. I'll look I might still have some links and plans saved around here somewhere. Hey what's up. I built the exact thing your trying to do for my 4x12 cab. Works perfectly. Very quite. First, make the outside of the box with the mdf and make sure you put the caster wheels on early.
This thing gets heavy. Then once the box is complete, jump inside if your small like me and seal up all the edges with some sealant. Then put up the plaster boards on the floor and walls and seal that up.
Once all dry I put up some carpet underlay that looks a lot like the auralex stuff. Drill a small hole for cables and add a hatch like door on the roof for access to the cab and that's it. Works perfectly and most of all sounds perfect as it's not a box shape. Hope this helps. How did you get the plasterboard onto the MDF?
Just glue? No space between it? So without a box within a box, it's still pretty quiet? You know I built one - kind of an enlarged booth. It did it's job, but also sounded kind of funny. You'd think a 57 stuffed right up against the grill cloth of a Marshall wouldn't hear any of the walls.
But it did. And the amp sounded "suffocated". I ended up pulling the amps into the control room and tracking with headphones. Amps need to breath I guess. Any time I'm forced to use a doghouse for amps, like for isolation when tracking live, I usually try to take a direct feed to re-amp later.
Is this for band isolation, or don't annoy the neighbors isolation? I haven't built a booth, but we got a hearing test booth from my Dad's old employer. It's build out of metal, with drywall, sheet-rock inside.
It's big enough for a 4x Hi Kenny. Best of luck with the project. I'm no expert, but I've been learning quite a bit about acoustics and sound isolation lately, after spending a few days with Art Noxon of Acoustic Sciences Corporation and Bruce Swedien at West Viking Studios in Florida.
It was quite an eye opener. I too would be worried about the sound that the mic picks up inside the box. Sure you can easily deaden all the high and mid reflections with acoustic foam, but there will be so much bass build up, standing waves, and comb filtering occurring in the lows and low-mids that it is going to be tough to make it sound good. That said, if you want to make it sound the best you can, definitely build the dimensions as large as feasible and not square.
Try to eliminate some of the parallel walls, if possible, or angle the speaker cabinet inside the iso box so that the sound waves leaving the speaker don't hit the walls perpendicular, but rather splay off toward another surface, rather than directly back toward the mic. Try to cram some diffusion and bass trapping in there, if possible. However, there isn't enough surface area in there to really fit enough bass trapping, so the bass will build up. The idea of building a box within a box is a pretty good one.
I see two different reasons for doing so, which warrant 2 different approaches: 1 To make the box as sound proof as possible. To do this, use 2 different materials of different densities and possibly thicknesses , and glue them together, like others have suggested.
The reason for doing so is to eliminate any mechanical coupling between the two surfaces, which will happen if they are identical materials. I would sandwich the two together using come kind of viscoelastic polymer that will convert some of the sound energy into heat. For this approach, the idea is to let the bass energy escape from the inner box so that is has somewhere to go besides back into the mic.
You can do this with bass ports. Then, put an air gap between the outer box and stuff it with insulation. Make the outer box material as thick and dense as possible. I hope this helps. I've never built a box like this before, but I suppose that is how I would do it. Cheers, Rappy. When you see how much spillage an SM57 picks up in a normal live recording, it's not surprising the reflections within the booth get picked up by the mic. For these boxes to work you'd surely need pretty heavy treatment inside to absorb the reflectable energy , at least in the front speaker facing side and the back.
Couldn't you end up with standing waves otherwise? I've got a Demeter SSC-1 and it doesn't sound that great either. Nicely made, very simple box. Still it doesn't sound good. I suspect it suffers from standing wavs and comb filtering. I too have a Marshall 4x12 cab. Still doesn't sound like full tilt screaming tube distorion, but I'm getting closer everyday. Dean Roddey. I just built a fairly large one. It wasn't made large because I want to put a big cabinet in it, but just to keep it from sounding boxy.
It just has 1 12" mounted in the top, firing down. It's made of MDF, put together with dowels and glue. Bisquits would have probably been even better, but I didn't have a cutter and couldn't afford to buy one. This had to be done on the cheap. Its lined with foam in the speaker cavity and the top wall of the main cavity, and then cloth wrapped insulation on the walls, door, and floor. You could probably mount 2 12" speakers in that, but it would be fairly tight.
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So I already had some materials left over from a 4x12 4x12 build. So bought a sheet of Baltic Birch and got started. So started to look at all the 2x12's that Mesa, Blackstar and other build for the dimension. So in Google Sketchup I drew the plan up and got to work.
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I apologize for interrupting you, but could you please describe in a little more detail.
They made a booth here ... It seems to me that the author wrote correctly, well, it could have been softer. P. S. I congratulate you on the last Christmas!
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