A Beginners Studio

Hey guys, I'm pretty new around here so forgive me for making mistakes :) I'm merely 16 years of age, and I reside in Adelaide, South Australia. Long story short, I have been involved in minor production for just over a year, and now for my studies, I have chosen the task of creating a recording studio at home. I have a small - medium budget and I have just over 5 months to complete my task. I have a rectangle area of 4.5m x 2.6m to work with. I have made a brief design in SketchUp and have attached the area I have to work with, and the SketchUp file. I'm looking for as many people as I can around this area to help me out in real life as well. I would really appreciate any input, thanks! I tried to upload the sketchup file but it's too big :(

Naf, Try purging the drawing. - also you can try putting the drawing up on google docs or something and put a link here. :) Cheers, John

Cheers for that idea, John! Uploaded to Google Docs. Thanks :)

you might be better off with a single room and use some gobos for the vox. if not, i'd angle the wall between the CR and booth. it might be helpful to consider the full dimensions of the space available since you want to account for the depth of the isolation walls etc.

Woah, thanks Gullfo! That looks impressive! Now, where do I go to get an understanding of equipment etc.? Thanks :)

equipment depends on your budget. basically you'll need a small mixer, a PC/Mac an A/D converter for the mixer into the PC/Mac or get a mixer with firewire (IEEE1394) i/o, a good pair of monitors and a good pair of headphones. you'll want a decent preamp, decent mic, sturdy boom stand, and you want to buy or build a decent desk to hold the equipment. a desk which supports a 61-76 key keyword and a PC/Mac keyboard+mouse, video monitor, mixer, and the rack equipment. a patch panel or two to make switching around the rack gear and mixer connections is a good idea. power filtering is important plus a UPS unit for the PC/Mac is a good idea. moving up a bit having the mixer with motorized controls is a nice way to control your DAW software. for wiring, consider running enough cable for 4 mics XLR, 4 headphones TRS, 2 speaker, 2 network, 2 USB, 2 coax, 4 TRS for instrument or line levels (like guitar re-amping).

gullfo wrote:

video monitor, the rack equipment. a patch panel or two to make switching around the rack gear and mixer connections is a good idea. power filtering is important plus a UPS unit for the PC/Mac is a good idea. moving up a bit having the mixer with motorized controls is a nice way to control your DAW software. for wiring, consider running enough cable for 2 USB, 2 coax, 4 TRS for instrument or line levels (like guitar re-amping).

I understand everything you said except for the stuff above, could you explain some of the stuff please?

time for searching this forum, binging (or googling)... no time like the present to spend some time reading up.

No worries! What kind of insulation etc. should I have on/under the floor? Thanks :)

concrete

Naffler wrote:

No worries! What kind of insulation etc. should I have on/under the floor? Thanks :)

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