My first 'studio'

About a year ago I was approached by someone about writing a radio serial. I was excited about the prospect and knew that I was going to be able to get a bunch of my acting friends involved. So I wrote. And wrote. And I even wrote some more. I wound up with a five episode radio serial that takes place in an alternate version of 1940's Chicago. It turned out pretty cool.

When it came time to get my friends together to record the various parts... well, I had a problem. I didn't have anything to use. I live - literally - 30 feet away from one of the busiest roads in the area and traffic noise travels really well (pun intended).

So I made this:

It worked pretty well. We still had to time some of our recording between the heavier traffic but it helped quite a bit in cutting the noise down.

I've upgraded since then (which I'll post about at another time) but this little guy - being only about two feet square on the inside dimensions - helped quite a bit. The first episode of my serial was recorded almost exclusively using this iso box.

I knew that it wasn't going to work well for a great product but it taught me some very good lessons like... um, how am I supposed to read while I record? I remedied that with my new setup.