Key posts: Studio layout, design and construction

Substantial posts by mika, who started the thread, and by the forum’s most active contributors. 62 of 128 posts are listed.

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mika, 7 November 2008Hi everybody. I'm glad to have found the right place for my new studio. I had play alot with different designs the last weeks, and end up with the following design.…
Soundman2020, 7 November 2008Hi Mika, and welcome. Nice layout! One suggestion: (More practical than acoustic): Your main door into the airlock from the hallway opens right across the doorway into…
mika, 9 November 2008Thank you for your suggestion Soundman. :D The reason for the door to the liveroom ist to use the given small space near the door. In the moment i'm seraching for a new…
mika, 9 November 2008is it possibile to make a rough sketch of your idea. Currently i don't understad what you are meaning :oops: To clarify: Each door i will use have a STC of 40db, nearly…
mika, 10 November 2008I don't understad the problem of this situation. Perhaps you can explain the disadvantage !? For my studio the airlock is just to have seperate doors for the…
Soundman2020, 10 November 2008That sounds like a three-leaf wall to me. If so, not good. You want TWO leaves. and only two, not three. You'd do much better to move a layer of gypsum board (GB) from…
xSpace, 11 November 2008Like this. out-of-air.jpg
mika, 11 November 2008thanks for your tips but: The outside walls are fixed and not allowed to change, so i have already 2 leaf's. Now i need the new/inner walls for my room into room design…
Soundman2020, 11 November 2008It REDUCES the isolation at lower frequencies. So all your bass frequencies will pass through your wall BETTER than if you only have two leaves. And roughly the same as…
Soundman2020, 11 November 2008If you want to do that properly, then you'd need to do something like below. But in that case, the room itself is a third leaf, so you could leave off the door out to…
mika, 11 November 2008I don't want to aggravate you, but i'm talking about a different problem. in the 2 attached pics you can see my idea of fixing the 3 leaf problem and which walls are the…
Soundman2020, 11 November 2008Hey Mika. If you are allowed to drill big holes all over that wall, then why not just take off the gypsum board completely? Drilling holes might help, but I suspect that…
Soundman2020, 11 November 2008So it's a rented room, and you can afford to spend many thousands of dollars to build your studio inside, but you can't afford to spend a few hundred dollars more if you…
mika, 11 November 2008The problem is more to explain the owner of the bulding why i have to do this. i belive you 100% an work with your great information. i only try to find the practicable,…

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Soundman2020, 11 November 2008Maybe just tell him the truth? :) "It's so that I don't disturb you with loud noise all the time, and so that you also don't wreck my recordings. If we don't do it this…
mika, 11 November 2008simple, but brilliant. the last hours i read all the information from the greenglue site. seems like your solution is the only way i can go. So we can go to my next…
Soundman2020, 12 November 2008Thank, Ro, that's what I figured. I'm still on the learning curve, but you and the others have helped more than you know! If you are ever in Chile, I owe you a couple of…
mika, 12 November 2008an now you can impart your knowlege to the next generation.... like me :wink: remember my last question please :D And there is another question. Every finished window i…
Soundman2020, 12 November 2008Hi Mika, Yes, the same rule applies to glass as well. The general recommendation is NOT to use standard double-pane glass (called "thermopanel" where I live), but to…
mika, 12 November 2008Thanks andre this help alot. Now my plan is to have area number 4 as the airarea between the 2 leaf-system. I will go the way soundman explaind me ,and rebuild one leaf…
mika, 16 November 2008Hey friend's It's me again :D Yesterday i'd make some soundisolation tests in the room. I found out, that the wall to room number 6 vibrates with the bass very hard, so…
Soundman2020, 17 November 2008It has to be sealed! It is your air gap, your "spring". If you don't seal that, and it is open to the outside, then in effect you only have one leaf. How did you test…
mika, 17 November 2008Hey Stuard. Thanks again for reply. I want to go back to the 3 leaf system. In the attached pic i marked a seld leaf with red color a seald airspace with blue, and a, to…
Soundman2020, 19 November 2008OK, so if your green area is not sealed, and is open to the rest of the world (or to the inner room), then you don't have a three-leaf system! You have something like a…
mika, 19 November 2008Good news, i build nothing until now. :D I start to empty the rooms, and remove the old floor at the weekend. I want to order all building materials (Steel studs,…
mika, 22 November 2008Construction day 1 Today a had alot of hard one man work. I removed the old floor which was floated on about 60 car tires, and dragged all the tires alon to the trash…
mika, 24 November 2008Construction day 2 It was a short day for work. I'd just cut the wood for 2 silenceboxes of the ventilation system, and the wood for the speaker soffits. Since i know…
mika, 29 November 2008Alot of progress today!!!!!!! The office in one of my new rooms moved yesterday so i get down the first wall today. And there are another good news :D The renter present…

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mika, 30 November 2008Thank's for reply Stuart The Vocalbooth/Storage will have a second leef, becuas ONLY in this area i dont touch the existing on stud 2 feaf wall. All the other estill…
mika, 1 December 2008I know it is not much interesting in the moment, but the demolition of existing walls continued today. 12 hours of work alone can be very strenuous! :roll: i hope to…
mika, 5 December 2008Hi Forum :) Today i had alot of progress. Old walls are completely down :horse: Also the inner leaf from the existing walls to the room next door are down. The room and…
mika, 10 December 2008Today was one of the hardest days in my life!!! I started working at the studio at 5:00 in the morning :shock: and end at 20:00 in the evening Today the Building…
mika, 12 December 2008They are decoupled at floor and celling with neoprene tape, and the screws have only contact to the steelframe by neoprenediscs( i don't know the rigth word for it…
mika, 16 December 2008Hi :D Since i had to take a break cuased by not feeling my fingers at the right hand anymore i had to lay down sunday and monday. I cotinued building today with half…
mika, 3 January 2009There is a littlebit of progress these days. I will start the celling and the vent-ducting at monday. here are some pics from today. controllroom…
mika, 6 January 2009Hi :D i short before starting the cellig construction, but before i start to build, i have a short question. Is it right that the woofer of the Spreaker has to be also…
mika, 7 January 2009Thanks for your advice Andre i have the choice to make the cellig up to 3,2m in the front and about 3,5m at the back of the CR. After your advice, i think the best is to…
mika, 27 January 2009Thanks for your patient tips for our asinine questions Andre :D I`m sorry but there was no progress the last two weeks, because i moved into another apartment, and had…
mika, 25 March 2009After a long Time without any updates i think it`s time to show you a little progress in my build. Since i had to spend a few weeks for my Job in Tehran, i continued…
mika, 26 March 2009Soffitwall building continued today. I started to fill the back with a kind of 703 and a few hangers and put on the basic layer of 25mm mdf, in the upper area af the…

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mika, 4 June 2009Hey 8) I`m sorry for no updates until know, but i had to stop work bacause of helth reasons for nearly 2 month. i had a long time in Hospital, risky operations, but fell…
mika, 5 June 2009Thanks Brien, thanks RO :D I will work in the studio the weekend, and see what i can move in this time. The next two weeks i havte to travel to a customer in slovakia…
mika, 27 June 2009The floor in the small recording room (vox booth) is in. Its a 20cm thick sandfilled floated floor ( no concrete, because i had to find a way to use some sand for the…
mika, 17 August 2009Hi friends :D Last week i worked on the doors of the controll room and did some soundisolatin tests in the controlroom. Soundisolation is very good to the foyer and the…
mika, 19 August 2009I hope that i reach only the 3/4 year limit :wink: I have to open the doors at first oktober week, so end of september i need to have a working place. :shock: But the…
mika, 19 August 2009As i said this morning, i worked on the front of the CR. Here is one pic from this evening: http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/3117/bild051u.jpg…
mika, 23 August 2009i did some testes with my flushmounted yamaha msp10. I had to move alot of insulation to reflection points to get a good response, but the main reason for the tests was…
mika, 6 February 2010After a long break because of healthproblems i am back with the studiobuild the controllroom is taking shape. today i worked on the desk:…
mika, 9 February 2010thank you :D here are some more photos with a little more fabric on the celling: External image, not preserved — original:…
mika, 13 February 2010Hi friends i continued on working in the small recording room /vocalbooth. here are some pics of the empty cellig with vetilation ducts and silencers in place:…
mika, 8 August 2010Hey friends. I am still not finished with the studiobild. I had a lot of health problems and stayed in hospital most the time the last 2 years. But the last 3 weeks i…

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mika, 10 September 2010after all the spam, here are some pics of the recording booth, ready for buisness: Image not preserved: IMG_9496.JPG IMG_9497.JPG IMG_9498.JPG IMG_9499.JPG IMG_9502.JPG…
mika, 13 September 2010Thanks Stuart The recording room sounds fantastic, as far as we can call it sounding :wink: It is a room designed for dry vocal recordings, so threre is not much room…
mika, 11 October 2010hi Meshuggah I don`t think that it is usefull to talk about costs, since you are in Mexico, and germany is different from material costs, codes........ All i can say:…
mika, 3 November 2010Oh sorry, i noticed, that i never showed a final frequency plot of the control room here it is: http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/3234/mitsub.jpg and another view of…
mika, 28 November 2010Thank you Kendale No, im am soory i can`t give you some samples, since alle then recordings and mixes are part of not jet released productions. I respect all the work…
mika, 19 May 2011Started to buy some toys for the Studio. It is just the beginning, but i will spend about 10k to 20k in equipment unteil end of this year. It depends on how buisness is…
mika, 21 June 2011i just started to upgrade my Studio a little. So i started to build some Diffusors for the Back of the Controlroom Here are some Pics of the first finished one ready to…
mika, 27 June 2011Hi carsten No until now i just made a quick listening test, and it sounds good for my ears. After i build all the Diffusors i want to bring into the room i will place…
mika, 20 July 2011since i know you love to see pictures, i have two new ones for you. One of my engineers at mixdown a song: http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/8320/lukasatmixdown.jpg And…
mika, 5 October 2011Good news. :D It seems like i can rent the office room next to my small recording room soon, so i can extend / rebuild the recordingroom to a 50m² live room :yahoo:…

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Soundman2020, 3 August 2013:) ! It's a pity the original spam posts aren't still here: they were quite hilarious! Without them, my comments seem a little "off". Some spammers don't have a clue,…