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How To Set Up Your DJ Booth
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| TranceBunnY |
Difficulty Level: easy , Time Required: 1 day
Here's How
1.Soundproofing: Egg crate foam from Home Depot works well. Glue gun it to walls, doors, ceiling etc. Don't skip this essential step unless you want to have your beats supplemented by the police pounding on your door!
2.Stand: You'll need a sturdy, flat surface at least five feet long and two feet wide, for the turntables and mixer. You'll need two turntables (at least to start, you can try CD mixing later!) connected to a mixer and speakers, or a monitor.
3.Turntables: Get a pair of Technics 1200s. Yes, there are a lot of other brands out there. In fact, I just saw Denon has come out with turntables with key adjust, (you can move the pitch and not affect the key.) But start with Technics.
4.Slipmats: one for each turntable obviously. These are not just to make the setup look pretty: they are needed so the record can be held by your fingers and the platter underneath can continue turning so you don't burn out the motor.
5.Headphones: get a good pair ($100+) that can take the bass frequencies of dance music - important to hear the all the bass to mix. If you can, try as many models as you can to match your fit and sound preferences.
6.Monitor/speakers/amplifier: again, a good monitor will make a huge difference in your mixing, since you will hear all the ranges of sounds in the music.
7.Mixer: this is where the choices become rather overwhelming. How many channels, what kind of built in effects and features do you need? Again, go to a store and play with the demo models to pick one you like.
8.Cables: you're going to need to hook everything together!! Make sure you plug all the power cords into a surge protector too, so you don't blow out your fuses when you pump up the volume
9.Record box/bag: milk crates are at one end of the spectrum, a $200 airtravel case with built-in wheels at the other. In the middle are nice padded record bags and backpacks that do a great job and are easily carried.
10.DJ: the most important part of the DJ booth - that would be you, right? |
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| burns |
The egg crate myth is so fake. We leanred at colledge about dynamica and sound proof methods. Theres only one sound proof method thats effective and thats filling the walla with sound proof tiles which are £20 for 1 square metre.
As for speakers, to achieve there maxinum quality uotput, they should be atleast 2 metres away from anything at all, best of all the walls as they really effect the sound. |
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| tu_face |
egg crates work.. :p any studio u go in to will have egg crate shaped foam in there to soundproof :)
the main thing is the shape of the material, to reflect the sound waves back away from the surface you are soundproofing. |
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| burns |
| quote: | Originally posted by tu_face
egg crates work |
Well according to a dude who was 45 and has worked in the finest studio's in London for 25 years, thats incorrect, plus he also said no (professional) studio's use them.
Never mind, we cant really agree so lets forget it :) |
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| Dj Thy |
Egg crates will help getting rid of standing waves and stop high frequencies a very little bit. But the main point of them is to counteract standing waves.
All those cheap soundproofing tricks are in fact way overhyped... Even with so called soundproofing tiles you won't get satisfactory results, especially not with our kinda music where bass is the main factor.
Soundproofing against high frequencies is fairly easy, you just need to put absorbant materials on the walls/ceilings. I'm not going to elaborate on more specific methods, but for low frequencies the only real effective method is... mass (combined with density).
A doubling of mass of the walls will increase bass absorption with 5-6 dB at most. That's why in pro studio's the walls are made heavy (or several walls with lead or another heavy material in between) to proof at best. |
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| spike_boy69 |
| Egg crates do work, slightly! They trap a layer of air between ttem and the wall. A-Level Physics says that a trapped layer of air will stop (or dampen) all three methods of particle movement - Radiation, Conduction, and Convection. This is the same with heat. thats is why builders make the outer walls two layers thick when building house. The gap traps air and keeps heat in. This is Radiation, sound works using the same theory. |
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| DJRavemonkey |
| Well to be honest i dont know why this has been wrote in the first place :nervous: |
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| tranceaddict991 |
| this wont make much since in a old home buut cinder block filled with sand is a good method...it will be pretty thick so the sound will stay in...so building a home?...have one room with that |
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| displaced |
you want most effective soundproofing?
mix in a vacuum chamber.
completely soundproof room is like a completely earthquake-proof building. there is no such-a-thing. |
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