Accidental reverb chamber.

[Shane_B.]

I gutted and remodeled the front entrance to our house. I ripped out the dated tile floor and put new down,  patched the walls and repainted, stripped and restored all the dark stained doors and trim. Everything is the same except I added crown moulding on the vaulted ceiling and added a decoupling layer under the new tile.

I finished painting the entry doors and reinstalled them. It's quite a process. I had to spray 5 coats of primer because I couldn't get the good stuff from Sherman Williams and then I did the normal 3 coats of enamel. 

When I closed the doors it instantly turned in to a reverb chamber. It blew my mind. It was not like that before I did the remodelling. The only change was the addition of the crown moulding. That has to be it. I also added a plastic decoupling membrane under the tile but I doubt that had any effect. I use it on all my tile jobs and never noticed a sound difference.

I sat in there on the floor playing my acoustic for an hour. It sounds incredible in there. Here's a couple pics of the orange membrane and the finished room with a view of the crown moulding. The front door is still original. It's the last thing I need to restore and refinish.

[Bapu]

Create an IR and pass it around.

[Shane_B.]

I've never made an IR before but I'll give it a try and post. It would be cool to use it on my recordings. First I have to fix my DAW. No video output.

I remodelled my bathroom a while ago. It's huge with a vaulted ceiling too but no crown moulding. It has almost no reverb. I'm pretty convinced it's the crown.

[mettelus]

Any strengthening of surfaces will increase reflection properties for sure. New tile probably contributed the most since that is going to get reflections from everywhere (especially with a vaulted ceiling) and is literally hard as a rock; but crown moulding also acts like the lattice in a guitar (more so if glued rather than just nailed). Another coat of paint was reinforcement as well.

Rooms with nice reverb are awesome in my opinion. To this day I still whistle the intro to "Patience" when entering concrete stairwells. I actually learned to play guitar practicing in the bottom of a 5-story stairwell when I had the time.

[Bapu]

3 hours ago, Shane_B. said:

I've never made an IR before but I'll give it a try and post. It would be cool to use it on my recordings. First I have to fix my DAW. No video output.

I remodelled my bathroom a while ago. It's huge with a vaulted ceiling too but no crown moulding. It has almost no reverb. I'm pretty convinced it's the crown.

If you did make an IR you could do a collab where everyone uses it to a degree to give the sense that they all played in your room.

[Bapu]

Or summat like that.

[craigb]

7 hours ago, Shane_B. said:

 

 

Looks painful to walk on! 😮

 

 

😜

[Shane_B.]

7 hours ago, craigb said:

Looks painful to walk on! 😮

😜

😄

It was painful to install too. It's murder on the knees even with knee pads kneeling down for hours. It took 2 days.

I looked in to making IRs on youtube. If I can remember how to get my video back on my daw I'll make one. I know what's wrong. The Intel video is stuck at 4K and but it sees my monitor as 1080. IOW I have a 1/4 of the screen displayed. All I can see is the upper left corner of the login screen which is a blank area. I forget how I fixed it before. I think I did a blind login then a shortcut to resize windows or something like that. I really wish I could find a G.D. video card that's not triple what it should be. It's b.s. and pissing me off. I'm dead in the water right now.