Imphenzia

It took me another month to complete the room, but I am pleased to say that now it's finally ready! I'll break down the steps that followed from my last "making of" post. Basically, the room was structurally ready with all the walls, ceiling, and door so it was sound proofing and final touches that remained. I also spent went to the US for a 10-day trip with some friends which ate away some of my time... and funds... At this stage, the sound is like an echo chamber. A rectangular room with flat plaster board surfaces and a hard floor. I also bought 10W LED-lights (750 lumen each) that I put up into the corners and I put some simple electrical wiring up. I ended up opting for normal extension leads because I want to be able to take the lights down and relocate them in the room if necessary. The reason I went for LED-lights are primarily because they are silent (no humming) and they don't generate much heat which benefits both the room temperature and also it won...

Over a month has passed since I started to build the sound recording room so it's time for another update. I have been able to spend about 6-7 full working days since the last update and the room is coming along nicely. Back in late Feburary I put up the first few plaster boards on the two walls that would be closest to the outer walls of the garage. I had to start by only putting those plaster boards up since I needed exterior access and I if I were to put all boards up it would be difficult to move the already heavy construction close to the exterior walls. There are two layers of plaster boards, the first ones were mounted vertically and the second layer horizontally to minimize sound leaking through the cracks. Lot's of screws were used and it took longer to put boards up than I first anticipated. Putting up the horizontal boards took some trickery being on my own, lifting up the upper board dropping it onto a 1cm ledge hoping it wouldn't slip off and slam down on my to...

Due to lack of interest and a minimal amount of downloads of the tracks released during the release marathon I decided to pause (alternatively discontinue) the release marathon to focus on universalsoundfx.com , spaceunity.com , and spacebox4096.com . Hope you still enjoy all the music which is available at http://music.imphenzia.com for the price of a coffee :)

Finally, after months and months of clearing out the garage (it is incredible how much junk accumulates over 10 years), I have started to build the sound absorbing recording room. The sound room will finally enable me to record source material with as little reverb as possible and I've been putting off a lot of recording until I could finish this room. [caption id="attachment_349" align="alignleft" width="200"] Sound Curtain[/caption] I'm making the room as a capsule in my garage with 120x45mm studs and joists. I will put double layer of plaster boards on the outsides and then fill the gaps with 120mm sound-absorbing insulation. [caption id="attachment_350" align="alignright" width="200"] Sound Foam[/caption] I won't put any plasterboard on the inside walls because I want the sound to absorb right into the insulation but I will also be coating the inside with sound absorbing curtains and 80mm sound foam. That sho...

UPDATE: This track has been removed from SoundCloud - you can still get it from http://music.imphenzia.com. Welcome to my complete 1 track per day #Imphenzia release marathon. Every day until I run out of tracks I will release one of my tracks as a free download and write some history behind it. If you like my music, if you want to support it, and if you don’t want to wait for the entire marathon to finish – you can download all my music as MP3 and FLAC files from http://music.imphenzia.com for what you think it is worth ($2 – $50) – there are 109 tracks to grab =) I didn't get swamped in e-mails and sly comments as I missed to release a track yesterday. Phew. I was working away on the firework sound effects I collected during new years eve for my www.universalsoundfx.com - 247 sounds at 192 kHz and over 4 GB was the result. I sat up until 4:30 AM and realized it was my turn to get up with the kids in the morning so I decided to go to bed instead. Finally. Himalaya [Chill Out Rem...

UPDATE: This track has been removed from SoundCloud - you can still get it from http://music.imphenzia.com. Welcome to my complete 1 track per day #Imphenzia release marathon. Every day until I run out of tracks I will release one of my tracks as a free download and write some history behind it. If you like my music, if you want to support it, and if you don’t want to wait for the entire marathon to finish – you can download all my music as MP3 and FLAC files from http://music.imphenzia.com for what you think it is worth ($2 – $50) – there are 109 tracks to grab =) I Am Imphenzia was released 1st February 2012 and I made it specifically to work with a 3D video I was making at the time. I spend a long time modelling and rigging my alien in 3D software and then rendering and post processing video to make some visuals for the track. After throwing hours and hours on this I realized that it may not be worth the time I was putting in so in the end I decided to call it off and release what I...

UPDATE: This track has been removed from SoundCloud - you can still get it from http://music.imphenzia.com. Welcome to my complete 1 track per day #Imphenzia release marathon. Every day until I run out of tracks I will release one of my tracks as a free download and write some history behind it. If you like my music, if you want to support it, and if you don’t want to wait for the entire marathon to finish – you can download all my music as MP3 and FLAC files from http://music.imphenzia.com for what you think it is worth ($2 – $50) – there are 109 tracks to grab =) Afterimage was 4th February 2012 and it's an atmospheric trance track with an airy piano melody. When making this track I ended up in somewhat of a dead lock because when I made the initial melodic loop in Cubase I struggled for quite some time as I didn't know how to tie it together to a full track. In the end I forced it into full length but I ended up repeating the melody over and over again as I couldn't fin...