My new studio in Belgium tips for the floor plans needed.

Started by stusiod on 2 December 2011. 0 replies.

Originally posted at johnlsayers.com, topic 17237.

Hello, I'm Yves Ditsch alias Yves DeVille a sound engineer and drummer from Luxembourg. I recently bought a new house with a small barn in the Belgian ardennes. I posted already before in this forum concerning my old studio in Luxembourg and got some good tips from you guys especially soundmann who was really fast replying to all my questions. So here we go. The new house is the house my girlfriend here 8 year old daughter and me are living in. The barn will be 100% for studio use. The ardennes area is around 400m above sea level so we risk to have long and cold winters! :? The house is from around 1890 or earlier and completely build out of stones and a lot of wood. The previous owner (a carpenter) did a great job fixing some issues and put concrete stabilizers above some doors etc. The barn isn't huge but unfortunately we can't make it bigger the walls are all supporting walls and have to stay where they are. The barn walls are like mentioned before build out of stone, the floor is a new concrete floor from 1996, the floor has 2 levels wich you can see on the sketchup file. The ceiling is build out of wood and plasterboards. The ceiling has the same height difference as the floor on the same spot. I couldn't figure out how to put this in my sketchup file though. In the barn their are 2 radiators wich I will take out since a special heating system is needed for studio use. Also in the sketchup you'll see the heating-system this one will be hard and expensive to move I'd rather keep it where it is and build a thin wall around it so it's not visible for my customers. I guess now it's about time to tell you guys what the studio will be for... I owe my own studio since 2003 I never had much money so never a huge studio either. My main customers are classical musicians which are recorded live in churches ore concert venues. And later then mixed in my control room. Since I'm a Blues musician I would love to change this a bit and get more Blues or Rock customers into my studio. Thats why I would need a live room and a smaller (vocal) booth. I love to record live so all the musicians at the same time it would be great to be able to record Drums, Bass, Guitar and Voc at the same time. Sure I owe a reamper but for some guitarists it just doesn't do the job. They want to be close to their amps to feel the vibrations and to play with the feedback of their amps. So maybe we'll figure something out for this issue too, My Neighbors are very quite except once or twice a year when they cut their fire wood. I wouldn't want the whole village to listen to my recordings though! So I will need a certain amount of sound proofnes. The budget I have is limited to about 19000 € this is all I was able to save up. I would need to buy the materials with this money and the heating system. I have all my studio material already. I'm using B&W 805 Nautilus speakers for mixing, I still own a D&R 26 channel analog mixing board with patchbay (about 2m large) and some outboard equipment enough to fill 3 to 4 16" heigh racks. The design I used for the control room I found on this forum it's from John I used that design since it fits perfectly into my barn. Here are a few of my questions now: Is it better to build the shape of the control room straight away with the plasterboard walls or better to do it like in the design with acoustic treatments into a square room. I was planning and planning and just don't seem to be able to come up with a good way of placing the rooms somehow I always end up that the musicians have to either run through the control room to get to the recording booth or go through the live room to get into the control room. Maybe somebody here has a better solution? Also not to waste to much space I made the live room pretty square I taught if I build triangles off about 1 to 1,5m large across the walls I could make the reflections a bit nicer for the ears? I used wall thickness of 20cm now I guess that should keep the sound off enough. I was planning to maybe put the floors on rubbers to get some kind of a floating floor effect, does that make sense? OK I guess I wait and see what you guys have to say about this. And sorry for my limited details in the sketchup. I spend 2 weeks on the design and I still am only a beginner if it comes to sketchup... Thanks a lot Yves P.S. My Sketchup file is 6,5 MB big I tried to reduce it but thats the maximum I was able to do. Is their a way to post it anyway? I attached a .png file instead.
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