Hi there!
I've re-read my post, and it seems a bit long.. I hope you can understand my question and be of some assistance.
I work in a small recording studio, but we have a decent sized tracking space. Lately we've been trying more and more to get into tracking bands live, playing together in the room. It's a great approach to recording, but now more than ever we need to get some nice gobos to control the bleed and to allow us to place the musicians where they feel good - regardless (well, kind of) of the sound of that particular spot in the room.
We asked an acoustician that works in a pro audio company not far away from us (and that builds gobos and stuff) to give us an estimate, but the ballpark he's aiming at seems a bit over our budget.
In the meantime, I decided to ask for an estimate in another company (not really an audio company, mostly they manufacture and assemble exhibition stands/booths and stuff like that). In order to do this we asked a designer to make us some drawings of what we thought that could be a good screen.
We saw the BBC gobos PDF file in the Mercenary Audio website and after some more google image search we came up with something like this:
- Number #1 - This gobo would be 2mx1x0.15m (something like 6'7'' x 3'3'' x 6'' - I hope I got this right, we use the metric system).
One side would be a rigid surface, like plywood, and the other would be some kind of thick fabric (I don't know the english word for that). On the inside it would be stuffed with rockwool or some kind of absorving foam.
The window would be made from 5mm thick plexiglass.
- Number #2 - This gobo is exactly like the first one, but with no window.
- Number #3 -This is square gobo - 1m x 1m x 0.15.
The filling is the same, but this one has no legs so we can stack them.
The legs would be made in a way that would allow us to put the gobos together like this:
We have the actual drawings with all the measures, these are just images so you could see what I am talking about.
Do you think this could work?
Probably it would be better if one side of the gobo was a diffuser (but that would be more expensive). We thought that if we get a reflective side (insted of 2 absorbing surfaces) we can have more options in the room.
My main concern is the plexiglass screen. Will it cause some nasty reflections even? We don't plan to put the mics too close to the window.. Would the plywood surface have the same problem?
Our room is aprox. 12ft. high.
Sorry for the long post, I hope to get some feedback here before I can send them the drawings!
Thanks,
Joao.