Studio layout, design and construction

Started by mika on 7 November 2008. 127 replies, 2008–2013. In the Library under Build diaries. Key posts in this thread.

Originally posted at johnlsayers.com, topic 11373.

Ignore this post....
after all the spam, here are some pics of the recording booth, ready for buisness:
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cheers Mika
Nice work, Mika! Looks great! Congratulations!!! How does it sound? - Stuart -
Thanks 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 sound. I just did one recording with a singer, and i placed him about 80cm away from the mic. It sounded pretty good, without any resonance in the minds an lows. I was realy impressed, since this is the best rec. booth i ever built. Reverbation time is realy constant 0,2sec down to 50hz. The floated floor has a natural frequnecy of 35 hz, so this room is not a good choice for recording bass or drums. I am realy happy, and will start with the live room as soon as i finished some jobs, and have a little budget for the celling diffusors for the live room. Yesterday i finished the last lights in the small vox booth. here are the new pic cheers Mika
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8) looks grrrrreat, mika! :thu: carsten
Danke Carsten :D It is not as sexy as your Studio, but for my needs and the budget i had, it is the best i can get. cheers Mika
Just for curiosity.. How many it cost to adapt and isolate the studio? It's just awesome :D
hi 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: this is a small private studio, and i build it alone with my own hands, without help form "friends" and without money from the bank. The good news, it is all payed, and i can pay the monthly bills for the studio, even with no clients. That was important for my, and is the reason why you can`t find much high end gear, just what i realy need to mix and record quality vocals. The Idea was to have best acoustics first , and gear can follow when buissens is good. cheers mika
Aloha, Looks great, Mika! Do you have any files we can listen to? Aloha :mrgreen:
Thank 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 from my clients so the recordings stay privat until release date. But i can offer some session pics, and antother set of studio pics: http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/5220/foto0069klein.jpg http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/8666/foto0074klein.jpg http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/4866/panorama2zd.jpg http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/7474/arbeiten2.jpg http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/1920/hinten1.jpg http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/9987/hinten2.jpg http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/4284/hinten3.jpg http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/695/singing1.jpg http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/2741/singing3.jpg cheers Mika
Wow that looks amazing. i wish i could do something that nice in mine
Started 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 going, but it looks quite good until now. next toy, will be a Tubetech CL1B, Protools 9 and some more mics. Here are some pics of some of the current avalible toys in Mikas Mietshaus: http://img860.imageshack.us/img860/6263/preamps.jpg http://img806.imageshack.us/img806/4919/mics1.jpg http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/200/workingdesk1.jpg cheers Mika
nice! what did you finish the walls with?
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nice! what did you finish the walls with?
It is just wallpaper 8) cheers Mika
i 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 go into Mikas Mietshaus Studio in Frankfurt / Germany [url='http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/830/backwallp13complete1.jpg/']
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nice! what did you make them out of?
the base is some styrofoam with some special 5mm coating to ad mass. The diffusor is designed to let enough bass pass to the important basstrapping behind it. cheers Mika
looking great, mika! you already did some measurements or listening tests with the diffusors? greetings, carsten
Hi 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 them by measuring, moving, measuring ....... 2 QRD P11 without divider are ready to move to the sidewall at the back of the CR, and 2 deep skylines will be started to build today. The 2 Skylines will be placed at the cloud left an right short behind the listening position. exact placement will be found be moving an measuring of course :wink: cheers Mika
Good 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: Buisness is soooooooo good, that this is no problem from the money side. Just the building time must be short, since soooooooooo many people all over the world are booking my studio, and i want to work with nearly all of them 8) Now i try to make a plan for rebuild the old recordnig booth to a new big live room in two month where i have to stop recording jobs.. heavy timeline, but possible if planed carefully. stay tuned for updates cheers Mika
I want to build me a really professional studio at my house like where I could record music. How much do you think it would cost and do you know any websites that could help me?
Well, the web site in your spam signature won't help you at all, that's for sure! :) Nice try... If you really do want help with a studio, then read the forum rules for posting (click here). - Stuart -