music Hello and welcome. This video is about the recording guitars at home with an Asel H Box, a homemade Asel H Box. I will show you how to build one, what it sounds like, how to record with it, and so on. Okay, so the basic idea, well you would actually want to use an Asel H Box is, since a recording electric guitars could be quite loud and the neighbors will complain and call the police. You have the Asel H Box to make it quiet on the outside. You can turn your tube amp as loud as you want, it still won't disturb anyone. Okay, so this is what it looks like from the outside and let's have a look on the inside. So this is what it looks like from the inside. You basically have a guitar cabinet with microphones in front of it, small mic stands, acoustic foam on all sides, also on the top. For the ones we have acoustic foam, then this is some wooden floor lamination that was quite cheap so I put it in. Then one layer of plywood on top we have a window asolation, then another this lamination thing, then plywood again with window asolation and that's it. I build it with two layers of plywood just to be sure that it's really quiet from the outside but usually just acoustic foam and one layer of plywood should be enough. Okay, you also need the speaker cable from the amp, going to the guitar cabinet and also from the microphone to the preamp. This is the top. I routed down some wood here for the cables to go through and also here on this side I took wooden file and rounded off the edges a bit so this is where the cables move on. Yeah, you don't really need two microphones, one should also be enough. Okay, so if you want to build one you just take measurements of the guitar cabinet, add some extra space for the acoustic foam and for the microphones, then what I did went to a hardware store and they cut the plywood pieces together for me so the walls and the top and the floor. At home I just glued the walls together and also I used these edged profiles to also screw the edges together and to be able to open and close it. This is the inner lid. I put on those handles to be able to pull it out. For the top lid I just took some door hinges which can be seen here. Top can be closed like this. Okay, so in total it was quite easy to build if you ever made something out of wood then this shouldn't be any problem. Okay, once it's all set up what you need to find is the problem mic placement and since opening and closing the isolation box takes a little time here's one secret trick how you can find the mic placement I am more quickly. Okay, so the quick way to find the proper mic placement is setting up an end by the preamp and what I'll do is I will play the guitar it will come out of the speaker into the microphone into the preamp and I will listen to what the microphone is hearing over the headphones. I will move around the microphone until it sounds right. Okay, so let's see the difference between having the master body we're quite low and then really high but now it's low around the room lever and the preamp volume is high. We'll play something and now with the master body on high The question now is how loud is it in the room? What you'll be hearing is just the room microphone and the amp turned way up and the sound is coming through the box and let's hear how loud it is. So the actual guitar is still a bit louder acoustically than what's coming from the amp so this shouldn't be any problem when recording at home. Okay that's it I hope I went through everything that should be interesting so if you want to record with your real amps then isolation box is something that you can do. Yeah if you want to listen to some more sound examples I will put up some links to my older videos. These days I'm recording differently but I wanted to make this video to pass on the knowledge in case anyone else wants to build an isolation box. Yeah if you have any questions you can post it in the comments. Yeah until next time, good day!