echo chamber out of a shipping container.

pucho812 · Jun 20, 2017

I was reading about this the other day.
Over at james taylor's private studio, they made an echo chamber out of a shipping container.

Sure enough you tube to the rescue. I rather like the idea, if I had the space to have a shipping container on the property

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U1C7X_hmqk

and a 1952 film on echo chambers just because
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEyISaSWAww

JohnRoberts · Jun 20, 2017

I looked at designing a house based on stacking up some containers (ASSuming they would be in surplus here and cheap). Not really but they do get repurposed when they are old and taken out of service.

At 40' long there is probably enough internal volume to make a decent chamber (in a quiet neighborhood). Of course if you have space you could dig a hole and bury it to make it quieter.

JR

micaddict · Jun 21, 2017

Yes, do avoid parallel walls and floor/ceiling. The 1952 film says "just to stop favouritism for certain sounds". Most terrible sounding would be the flutter echoes . (The corrugated walls in the untreated container may tame these just a little, but you'd likely want to take care of isolatian anyway.) Next would be standing waves in general and peaks and nulls in the room.

James took care of the parallel surfaces. The proportions still don't seem ideal, but hey, it's an echo chamber, not the main room.

Jonte Knif · Jun 21, 2017

I just met a guy who works in a company which manufactures acoustic materials. They use a shipping container as an echo chamber for measurements.

ubxf · Jun 21, 2017

Echo chamber or a studio
http://spacecrate.co.uk/about/

DerEber · Jun 22, 2017

This night I dreamed of echo chambers.

One was more narrow and out of metal like a container. It had a nice boom and an aggressive ring.
Next door I was standing on an edge 2/3 high of a very big room. It sounded a little like outside on a cliff, but with a cool late reverb.
It just had to be careful not to fall down...... and then all the wires. 8)