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There was a thread that I responded to about 2 years ago, as well as many other dfo members did , on another members home studio build.I thought I'd create a thread on this to add pictures and elicit comments as the 6-8 week construction progresses. If any of you have done this I'd love to hear your experience good and not so good.
After years of playing/recording in my not at all soundproof two car garage, I'm turning the space into an actual studio with a live room, iso booth, control room and storage space. Spurred on by the fact that my son is a recording engineer, writer and touring guitar player it's time we had a real space to work. We've both had projects going in the garage in the past but had to shut down by 10pm or earlier to keep the neighbors happy. This will change that and we're hoping the new room will even attract projects. A leap of faith perhaps with a build it and they will come idea firmly in play.
A few pictures to get started.
If building a riser consider filling it with sandPart of talks about containing bass drum low end was to set up on a riser. Cheap to build and it doesn't need to be very high. Even 6 inches off the floor would help. Your neighbors might appreciate it. For the money I'm spending I'm not setting up on no damn riser.![]()
I would consider it if I didn't need the flexibility of recording drums in different areas of the live room. In lieu of that, the vinyl flooring will be laid on 1lb MLV effectively decoupling it from the slab. Cheaper than floating the entire floor. This in conjunction with the double walls and ceiling treatment, and the fact that I've already spent the money I budgeted will hopefully be sufficient to reduce enough low end transfer.If building a riser consider filling it with sand
I think you're going the right way about this. You could spend 2x or more trying to keep that last 3dB from escaping, but your neighbors shouldn't hear it from inside their houses, which is the only thing that matters.I would consider it if I didn't need the flexibility of recording drums in different areas of the live room. In lieu of that, the vinyl flooring will be laid on 1lb MLV effectively decoupling it from the slab. Cheaper than floating the entire floor. This in conjunction with the double walls and ceiling treatment, and the fact that I've already spent the money I budgeted will hopefully be sufficient to reduce enough low end transfer.
So true. We'll have a trial run of recording drums and bass to find out just how tight the room is. Hoping to be able to record anything well into the night if need be.You could spend 2x or more trying to keep that last 3dB from escaping, but your neighbors shouldn't hear it from inside their houses, which is the only thing that matters.
Trying to visualize your wall construction. It sounds great. Any pictures?It may to too late for this idea... when I made my studio in a 25x25 garage ,with 11 foot ceiling , I made a free standing 16x14 room with a 9 foot ceiling inside the garage...you can walk completely around it.
But my best idea was the walls ... I have a 2x6 at the top header and a 2x4 on the bottom , every other stud was cut at an angle so it would line up with the inside wall and every other stud was a regular 2x4 lining up with the outside wall , so I have a dual wall using the same space as a single wall.
The other thing that's good about this is that I have no standing waves because there are no parallel walls.
The corners were tricky to dry wall , especially as I have 3 layers on this inside wall and 2 on the outside wall.
One layer of drywall on the inner ceiling then j-channel and another layer of drywall , then on the outside top of the room there's just enough space to lay on top and screw in another 2 more layers of drywall.
It's kinda movable in that I can unscrew everything since it's freestanding but it would be soo much work.its not attachched to any walls or the ceiling .Trying to visualize your wall construction. It sounds great. Any pictures?
25x25 is about the same size I started with. I lost 4ft across the entire width to accommodate the storage room, a small iso booth for speaker cabs and bar surface before you enter the actual studio space.
We opted for a control room instead of a free standing room, effectively taking up one quarter of the available studio space, but it'll be well worth it. Our raised ceiling is also 11ft but just in the center of the live room. Five exposed beams at 8ft. Ceiling around the perimeter and in the control room stayed at 8ft.
The 14x16 x9 room in the middle is a nice size. Is it movable. Any windows? How is it used?
The j-channel sounds similar to what we have everywhere except the floor of course. Is that a similar treatment? Love to see pics. Thanks for chiming in R&R.
Here's some pics..Trying to visualize your wall construction. It sounds great. Any pictures?
25x25 is about the same size I started with. I lost 4ft across the entire width to accommodate the storage room, a small iso booth for speaker cabs and bar surface before you enter the actual studio space.
We opted for a control room instead of a free standing room, effectively taking up one quarter of the available studio space, but it'll be well worth it. Our raised ceiling is also 11ft but just in the center of the live room. Five exposed beams at 8ft. Ceiling around the perimeter and in the control room stayed at 8ft.
The 14x16 x9 room in the middle is a nice size. Is it movable. Any windows? How is it used?
The j-channel sounds similar to what we have everywhere except the floor of course. Is that a similar treatment? Love to see pics. Thanks for chiming in R&R.
No I haven't. The floor will be a "wood" vinyl. If wood wall paneling is as expensive as wood flooring it's beyond my budget. I'll be tuning the room acoustics with large floor rugs, baffling and possibly heavy pull curtains on one of the walls, depending on what's is being recorded.Have you considered some kind of wood paneling on the walls? I've understood that drywall is not acoustically very nice.