Suggestion: Keep an eye out for items you place on the floor near the sump pump. I put a small freezer in our basement and temporarily used power from the outlet for the pump(until other outlet to breaker panel could be installed). Well life gets in the way, and woke up one morning with wife calling me to the basement. We had water backing up on the floor. During a nighttime storm the power went out and the breaker to the freezer and pump tripped and the rain backed up until it was in the basement. It damaged some items on the floor in cardboard boxes. I’d hate to see you get speaker cabinets damaged this way. Get something(cheap roller moving pallet things at Harbor freight)to keep them a few inches off the floor. And you can save your back by moving your bigger speakers around by using the roller pallets.
Thank you for watching, sharing your experience and suggestions! The downside to these videos is limiting the length so it doesn't deter someone from watching, and it's tough to pick the best parts of hours of video to convey a little story. That being said, I did film explanations to avoid seeing everything ruined by water damage, but it didn't make the cut... BUT for sure I think your concern about flooding is worth addressing and perhaps when the basement is done I'll do a video on 30 days in the new studio impressions, or something like that. I'm all about form that follows function and as much as I like cool finished basements as much as the next person, as someone who's spent their entire career fixing and building stuff, I know all too well what a basement is for, and it's propensity to flood. In this home basement UA-cam studio project, everything that's not water resistant, or worth saving will be off the floor, anticipating a catastrophe. Since we had this home built, I was able to see homes with just the basements poured on our street flooded after it rained hard for days. These were under construction, so wide open with no pumps running. The worst I saw had six to eight inches of water. With that in mind, although this area is considerably drier than many, I'm not taking any chances and I'm keeping everything at least 4 to 12" off the ground and nothing is permanent or would need more than a busy day to clean up a post flood. What I've done temporarily is hookup my power strip to the sump pump outlet. Since I use the audio equipment almost daily, I'll be all the more aware of that particular power source which is something most rarely think about. At least it's surge protected now and I'll always know whether there's power to it. A battery backup is in the not too distant future and even though I pray it never floods, I'm ready for it to happen and I think if it flooded, after the water recedes or is pumped out, probably the speakers and audio stuff will be salvageable. Thank you for mentioning that though!
Thank you SOOOOO much for watching and the SUPER THANKS! That's SUPER COOL. I'm glad that you're getting some value from it and I not only wish you well, but encourage you to keep at it. I've recently setup a 2nd channel to infotain the fledgling UA-cam creators like myself. Only one video there now, but I'm working on the next installment. youtube.com/@WATTUA-camChannel?si=2zR3GZVwqOYzE19Z THANKS AGAIN!!!
Thanks! Lots of work to do still, but it's coming along and by next week I'll likely film and publish a new video in that space to see how it works out.
You can find some acoustic wall treatments to place on the walls to help stop reflections makes a big difference. They sell them just for that purpose.
Thanks as always for watching and commenting Jim. Thanks for the compliment on the basement too. It's a work in progress, but will certainly give me the space I need right now to help me grow. I've got a bunch more speakers to work on, a couple dozen solid projects slated, even parts for at least a few new RestoMods. In so far as the sound in the basement... what a huge difference having some additional volume in the room and way more sound control. Even the way it is now, the sound is so much more damped than before. The speakers sound very clean down there. The second pair I tried, (they're hooked up now), are those giant Jensen CS-315 15 inch 3 ways and they sound even better down there. I'm very curious to see what happens to the in room frequency responses compared to the small drywalled room. I was considering a few ideas for additional sound control: First, I've got a 3” thick queen size mattress topper that I was considering either placing it at what will be a quasi back wall, (a divider made from the plastic shelves you saw), along with the remainder of the curtains. I'm guessing that would help eliminate a lot of cancellation, (destructive interference). The other thought was cutting it into strips and lining the underside of the sub floor with it. And... I've also got a couple dozen home chef boxes with that white PET insulation. I was thinking of just using them in the cardboard boxes with one end open of course, and stagger them around on shelves, ceilings, etc. Last thought was lining the interior of my black wood shelves with black acoustic foam, (or maybe that black felt I used on the MC-1200 baffles. I still need reflections for it to sound proper, so I don't want to over damp the basement... what's your thoughts on those ideas, or others like you mentioned with the foam? Thanks again for everything!
Suggestion: Keep an eye out for items you place on the floor near the sump pump. I put a small freezer in our basement and temporarily used power from the outlet for the pump(until other outlet to breaker panel could be installed). Well life gets in the way, and woke up one morning with wife calling me to the basement. We had water backing up on the floor. During a nighttime storm the power went out and the breaker to the freezer and pump tripped and the rain backed up until it was in the basement. It damaged some items on the floor in cardboard boxes. I’d hate to see you get speaker cabinets damaged this way. Get something(cheap roller moving pallet things at Harbor freight)to keep them a few inches off the floor. And you can save your back by moving your bigger speakers around by using the roller pallets.
Thank you for watching, sharing your experience and suggestions! The downside to these videos is limiting the length so it doesn't deter someone from watching, and it's tough to pick the best parts of hours of video to convey a little story.
That being said, I did film explanations to avoid seeing everything ruined by water damage, but it didn't make the cut... BUT for sure I think your concern about flooding is worth addressing and perhaps when the basement is done I'll do a video on 30 days in the new studio impressions, or something like that.
I'm all about form that follows function and as much as I like cool finished basements as much as the next person, as someone who's spent their entire career fixing and building stuff, I know all too well what a basement is for, and it's propensity to flood.
In this home basement UA-cam studio project, everything that's not water resistant, or worth saving will be off the floor, anticipating a catastrophe. Since we had this home built, I was able to see homes with just the basements poured on our street flooded after it rained hard for days. These were under construction, so wide open with no pumps running. The worst I saw had six to eight inches of water.
With that in mind, although this area is considerably drier than many, I'm not taking any chances and I'm keeping everything at least 4 to 12" off the ground and nothing is permanent or would need more than a busy day to clean up a post flood.
What I've done temporarily is hookup my power strip to the sump pump outlet. Since I use the audio equipment almost daily, I'll be all the more aware of that particular power source which is something most rarely think about. At least it's surge protected now and I'll always know whether there's power to it.
A battery backup is in the not too distant future and even though I pray it never floods, I'm ready for it to happen and I think if it flooded, after the water recedes or is pumped out, probably the speakers and audio stuff will be salvageable.
Thank you for mentioning that though!
Thanks! I'm starting to kinda do what you're doing and the info so far has been invaluable.
Thank you SOOOOO much for watching and the SUPER THANKS! That's SUPER COOL. I'm glad that you're getting some value from it and I not only wish you well, but encourage you to keep at it. I've recently setup a 2nd channel to infotain the fledgling UA-cam creators like myself. Only one video there now, but I'm working on the next installment.
youtube.com/@WATTUA-camChannel?si=2zR3GZVwqOYzE19Z
THANKS AGAIN!!!
Nice upgrade to the audio space!
Thanks! Lots of work to do still, but it's coming along and by next week I'll likely film and publish a new video in that space to see how it works out.
You can find some acoustic wall treatments to place on the walls to help stop reflections makes a big difference. They sell them just for that purpose.
Thanks as always for watching and commenting Jim. Thanks for the compliment on the basement too. It's a work in progress, but will certainly give me the space I need right now to help me grow. I've got a bunch more speakers to work on, a couple dozen solid projects slated, even parts for at least a few new RestoMods.
In so far as the sound in the basement... what a huge difference having some additional volume in the room and way more sound control. Even the way it is now, the sound is so much more damped than before. The speakers sound very clean down there. The second pair I tried, (they're hooked up now), are those giant Jensen CS-315 15 inch 3 ways and they sound even better down there. I'm very curious to see what happens to the in room frequency responses compared to the small drywalled room.
I was considering a few ideas for additional sound control: First, I've got a 3” thick queen size mattress topper that I was considering either placing it at what will be a quasi back wall, (a divider made from the plastic shelves you saw), along with the remainder of the curtains. I'm guessing that would help eliminate a lot of cancellation, (destructive interference). The other thought was cutting it into strips and lining the underside of the sub floor with it. And... I've also got a couple dozen home chef boxes with that white PET insulation. I was thinking of just using them in the cardboard boxes with one end open of course, and stagger them around on shelves, ceilings, etc. Last thought was lining the interior of my black wood shelves with black acoustic foam, (or maybe that black felt I used on the MC-1200 baffles.
I still need reflections for it to sound proper, so I don't want to over damp the basement... what's your thoughts on those ideas, or others like you mentioned with the foam?
Thanks again for everything!
You have a very nice Basement Todd.
Thanks!
I just tried that super thanks thing... interesting. I never knew how that worked until I tried it..