drum booth design

Here is a drum booth that I designed for a client once. The importance was to make it simple so that the average carpenter could wrap his head around it. Also, the panels were standardized.

My pet peeve for most drum booths is that that they don't make it easy to get into front of the kit. So my plan calls for the front wood panel fronts to be on hinges or removable so that if you need to readjust the kick mic (which you usually have to fairly often), you simply address the kick from outside the front through the removable/hinged panel.

I made this one on a rather large scale to minimize the reflections inside the booth. Also the carpenter added some cross support on the ceiling which actually made a great place to mount one of those mic studs and remove overhead stands. The other reason for having wood on the bottom 1/4 is to visually remove the clutter of stand bases, mic cables, mic stands, etc.

Ventilation is important. Most booths forget this. The client actually left some space in the ceiling for heat to rise out of the booth. The plan asked for a vent low where some sort of fan could push air towards the drummer. But some sort of vent on top will keep the heat from building up inside.

The back wall is standard fiberglass filled wall with a cloth cover that creates better acoustical environment.

This plan, I feel, looks better than those commercial ones, especially since you can choose your own color scheme. It is also cheaper, and at worse, the same cost.