Hello soundfreaks!!!
A while back, i started working on building our recording studio. i closed down the garage and we are ready to start with the recording booth!!
My budget is "Invest as you earn" since im only using the money im making in my room!!{Regular house room}
I discussed with a couple of engineers about my booth and i was told to do the floor on top of Springs{Shock Absorber Springs} im doing the missing walls also in concrete. trying to get some help with the acoustic design of my booth and control room,but for now is enough with the booth. :yahoo:
im planning to start building the missing walls this upcoming weekend. Got lost trying to use Sketch Up to design it!!! i'll upload the measurments in a bit!! Have an amazing day and BE PRODUctive!!!
Recording Studio in Puerto Rico
Originally posted at johnlsayers.com, topic 17535.
sorry to say, but you were told WRONG! You might want to read this, carefully: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8173 It's a very common misconception that studios need floated floors: The vast majority do NOT need them. And if a studio does need one, then you better have a very, very large budget, because doing it right is not cheap, and not easy. First, you say this is a garage conversion, so it is practically certain that your floor is a thick concrete slab poured directly on the ground, commonly called "slab on grade". That's about the best floor you can have, for a studio. You do NOT need to do anything else to it.and i was told to do the floor on top of Springs{Shock Absorber Springs}
Missing walls? Plural? As in "more than one wall"? Why is your garage missing some walls? Are you talking about walls around the outside of the studio, or walls inside between rooms? Normally for a garage conversion, the only wall "missing" is the one that seals of the holes where the garage doors used to be. Is that the wall you are talking about? Also, if you are talking about walls between rooms, then why do you want to make them from concrete? That's rather expensive, and not so easy to do, as compared to other options. And depending on your isolation needs (which you didn't mention), they might not give you the type of isolation you want.im doing the missing walls also in concrete.
Well, it would probably be better to get your COMPLETE design in order, for the entire studio, rather than trying to design bits and pieces. The rooms interact, both practically and possibly acoustically, and as you go through the design process, you'll find that tweaking one small things can have large and unexpected repercussions in other places. If your booth is already built, you will not be able to change anything, and will have to live with a lousy control room. Far better to design everything, carefully, and all together as a system.trying to get some help with the acoustic design of my booth and control room,but for now is enough with the booth.
:shock: :!: Ummmm... you don't even have a plan, and you want to start building already? That's not a good way of going about it! If you look over the forum, you'll find many threads where people tried to do just that, and ended up having to tear down what was already built, then rebuild it properly after designing it right. I'd suggest that you should STOP right now, and design everything first before you even think about hammers and nails. After all, you came here thinking that a floated floor was the ideal way to start, and that turned out to be totally wrong: How many more things about your build might be just as wrong, but you don't know it yet?im planning to start building the missing walls this upcoming weekend.
I'd respectfully suggest that you spend some time going over the tutorials on how to use it: building without a design is an absolute guarantee of failure. There is no question about that. Without a good, solid, well thought out design for both your isolation and for your treatment, you are undeniably guaranteed to fail. It's great to be enthusiastic about your build, but not so great to let the enthusiasm kill common sense. In other words: slow down, spend some time to learn the basics of acoustics, learn studio design, learn construction, then spend more time to actually design the place properly, posting your designs and questions here for help. Then when you have an actual workable design, only then can you start thinking about buying materials and starting to build. The normal starting point, is to define the purpose of the studio, and the amount of isolation that you need, in terms of decibels. You should probably start there, then based on that you can look at structures and shapes that will provide the isolation, acoustics and functionality that you need. Without a carefully thought out plan, all that you have is a recipe for disaster. - Stuart -Got lost trying to use Sketch Up to design it!!!