Hi all,
I just bought my first house (yay) in Almere, the Netherlands,
and i would like some advise on some simple studio construction.
First of all, it is similar to this house (the one on the right):
http://deverwondering.nieuwbouwcentraal.nl/src/showphoto.php?photo_id=239
I want to build a freelance project studio someday but because i just bought this
house, i can only do a few things right now: sketching out and building the walls,
basically. A constructor will do that fortunately, i have two left hands.
The room i want to use is situated on the top floor (attic) of my house, has
concrete floor and the house is still being build atm so it will be brand new.
The house that joins mine on the left has no attic, the house on the right will
have one. My roof is curved. Here are some pics:
side
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attic
External image, not preserved — original: http://i42.tinypic.com/sb25bp.jpg
All measures are in meters, millimeters (so the room is basically 5m10cm by
10m98cm).
Because its a lot harder to build walls after the floor is finished, i
would like to do that already in this stage. Which, of course, means i have to
have a layout that is suitable for monitoring and mixing (larger room) and
a foley/vocal booth for foley recordings, some acoustic guitar recordings and
voices (smaller room).
I have made a sketchy layout for what i have in mind, could you guys please
give me advice by answering these questions?
First of all, i made a very rough sketch of where i think the walls should be:
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the upper part will be used as a storage room.
Orange = doors, blue = window
The wall with the window would be actually two seperate walls to minimize
contact bleed, with two windows probably. Is that the best way to do this?
Building a booth from scratch like the one found in the links section on this forum
would probably be better - but i hope to get reasonable results with just placing
these walls and the optimize it with rockwool and / or auralex panels from the inside.
Is that naive? It is in a reasonably quiet neighbourhood and it's a new house -
or will that get back to me with a vengeance?
Second question - is the booth big enough for the purpose i want to use it for?
Does it make sense to build an extra wall on the left side, basically building a
cube of walls, maybe filled with rockwood, maybe with little holes in the wall
to act as an extra absorber maybe?
What kind of effect with the curved roof have (theoretically) on the sound of
the room? And the metal bars that are also visible in that same drawing (dotted
lines - 'spant' in the drawing)?
I think it should be nothing i can't fix with absorbing material, but i'm no
acoustic expert :)
Any advice about anything that looks supsicious is of course welcome as well.
Thanks and please let me know if I missed something.
Lucas.