Key posts: Basement Control and Live Room Build in Kansas! Thoughts?
Substantial posts by MrSquire, who started the thread, and by the forum’s most active contributors. 11 of 15 posts are listed.
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MrSquire, 11 November 2010This is my first post after a long, obsessive few weeks of digesting the info on this forum. I have a great deal to learn, i plan on donating to this site due to the…
gullfo, 11 November 2010since mixing is your main activity, i'd use the bigger room for that and the smaller room for the drums. add an additional wall (proper 2 leaf please) on the inside of…
Soundman2020, 11 November 2010Agree with Glenn. That layout also gives you much better symmetry for your control room, without having to change anything about the existing structure. I would, yes.…
MrSquire, 11 November 2010Stuart and Glenn! Thank you so much for your replies. I agree in moving the CR to the other room....when you say sliders do you mean 2 sliding glass doors? The other…
Soundman2020, 11 November 2010Excellent! It might be, yes. Is that framing attached directly to the concrete walls and/or the floor above you? If so, then you might as well take that framing down…
MrSquire, 12 November 2010Great! Im loving this exchange of information and tips! The framing is actually not attached to the wall.....it is however attached to the ceiling with about 6 screws,…
MrSquire, 13 November 2010In reference to britune's Virginia basement build. John Sayers posted this pick of his stud wall next to the concrete block. How exaggerated is the space between the…
Soundman2020, 13 November 2010You want that space as big as you can afford to make it, but not less than 4". The reason is because your wall is a resonant system: it is tuned to a frequency at the…
MrSquire, 16 November 2010Well, i discovered some new things. My first inspection of the proposed CR room walls led me to believe the walls were completely uninsulated....well it turns out that…
MrSquire, 16 November 2010They are walls within a concrete shell. Would it still be a triple leaf if i left the existing stud wall (maybe WITH insulation and WITHOUT the drywall?) and built…
MrSquire, 17 November 2010The ceiling is exposed and unfinished as you can kind of see in my initial photos ( pictures 4 and 5) my only concern is the rather large duct work running through each…