Key posts: The Cottage Studio Build

Substantial posts by beau, who started the thread, and by the forum’s most active contributors. 46 of 60 posts are listed.

Page 1

beau, 23 September 2012Hello Everyone, First let me say thank you to everyone who has helped with the design of my room. I'm going to document the entire process from tear down of the existing…
beau, 23 September 2012Until I can get the sketchup file down to 500k, here are some screen shots of the design. The control room shell is roughly 17' x 17' x 9' and the iso booth is roughly…
beau, 25 September 2012Here are a few shots of the end of day 2. Garage completely torn down.. ready for slab removal. Beau IMAG1548.jpg IMAG1547.jpg
beau, 25 September 2012Day 3. Slab removed. Ready to dig up earth and frame up the new foundation. Beau Image not preserved: IMAG1557.jpg IMAG1560.jpg IMAG1559.jpg Image not preserved:…
RJHollins, 25 September 2012Hi Beau, Just following your new build thread. It doesn't seem you're seeking advice, but as you mentioned, a square control room has plenty of difficulties that has…
beau, 26 September 2012Hi RJHollins, I'm totally open to suggestions. I apologize if it seemed like I am not open. We can agree that this is what the forum is all about. I'd love to see some…
RJHollins, 26 September 2012There are many post on the forum that deal with 'Room Ratios', along with access to, both, online & Xcell spreadsheet formula that will help you max your room dimensions…
beau, 27 September 2012How about this? ... 9' x 17'3" x 19'6" Should give me sufficient room for treatment. I'm allowing for 2 feet of trapping at the rear, and a foot of diffusion and…
Soundman2020, 27 September 2012What ratio are you basing that on? Doesn't seem very good to me. It fails one of the three critical BBC tests, the Bonello diagram is all over the place, and doesn't…
beau, 27 September 2012Thanks guys! The room was only based off of me trying to get the most volume out of the room and then deal with treatments later. However, I always wanted to go bigger…
Soundman2020, 27 September 2012True, but that isn't the primary function of slot walls: At heart, they are broad-band Helmholtz devices that happen to also provide some diffusion as a side effect, and…
beau, 28 September 2012Thank you Guys! I really appreciate everyones help with this. I think I have addressed all of the issues pointed out. Here is where I'm at. 19.5' L x 16'W x 9'H This…
Soundman2020, 28 September 201238%. Not 30%. :) The "theoretical" best location is at 38% of room depth, and that's where your EARS should be. Looking at your diagram, your head would need to be about…
beau, 28 September 2012Thanks Stuart! Yes, I'm aware that the wall in front of the hangers is just to hide them and is cloth. Yes, the entrance door will be on the shell. Sorry my screen shot…
Soundman2020, 28 September 2012Before you start pouring concrete, have you considered these two rather important points? 1) You can attain much higher levels of isolation if you pour separate…
beau, 28 September 2012Hi Stuart, Unfortunately, this is the largest garage possible to be permitted giving the size of lot, distance to house, backup area, neighbors house, other neighbor's…
beau, 1 October 2012Yes, Everything must be submitted to the city, stamped by a structural engineer and then approved by the city. Then an inspector comes out to inspect various stages of…
beau, 1 October 2012Yes you are correct. Hopefully this thread will be helpful and maybe even inspiring to someone somewhere. I know I really enjoy reading everyone else's studio…
beau, 4 October 2012Here we are with all of the rebar and foundation framing ready to pour... hopefully we pass inspection and we can pour concrete on friday. :) Beau Image not preserved:…
beau, 15 November 2012Hello again, Its been a while. We finally passed all inspections for the slab and poured the foundation. I did decide to lay in 3" piping to run cables from the control…

Page 2

beau, 18 November 2012A lot has gotten done in the past few days... we have most of the rough framing done. Still need to frame the roof and upper rear wall. Then we are ready for our rough…
beau, 5 December 2012Little progress has been made lately. It turns out the builders framed the front and rear wall incorrectly. The plans called for "balloon framing" walls on the front and…
xSpace, 6 December 2012"The new garage will be 19' x 27' with 10' header height and a roof with an 8/12 pitch." See this started out a garage and the garage mentality has not modified the want…
beau, 6 December 2012Hi xSpace, I'll try to answer best I can.. Owner After almost a year of trying to get a permit for a simple garage, this design got the go ahead, so I had to roll with…
beau, 21 December 2012We passed our framing, sheeting and roofing inspection, as well as our "green inspection." So now we have the green light to finish the rest of the garage! :) Regarding…
beau, 30 April 2013Ok... quite a few months have gone by, and here is where I am at. Garage Construction... Complete. Inspections ......Complete. Certificate of Occupancy received. Studio…
beau, 30 April 2013So my question is regarding the isolation between the control room and iso booth to the outside / airlock. Is this proposed green wall necessary? Assuming the iso booth…
beau, 10 August 2013Hey all, So It's been quite a while, and I've made quite a bit of progress. Completed construction on the control room and iso booth. Tracked a few records in there and…
beau, 11 August 2013Ok, so here are some photos of the control room in it's current state. It's messy and still needs some finishing work cosmetically. But this will hopefully give you a…
Soundman2020, 11 August 2013What type of computer are you using? Mac or PC? There are issues with Java on some versions of the Mac OS: it was not implemented correctly for handling sound streaming,…
beau, 12 August 2013Thank you Stuart! I am running a macbook for measurements. I was able to get rew to work using windows on bootcamp. Here is a link to impulse responses taken from 9, 10,…
beau, 13 August 2013here are 3 waterfall graphs from 9, 10 and 11 feet from the rear wall. It looks like the best place to be would be 9 feet from the rear of the room because of the nasty…
Soundman2020, 13 August 2013Glad to see that you got REW working! That's great. Now it will be easier to actually understand what you are dealing with. Actually, you are sort of going about things…
beau, 14 August 2013Thanks Stuart! I do plan to focus on the whole spectrum, and I will be here asking questions when I get to it. :) Listening position, I will mark my listening position…
Soundman2020, 14 August 2013It's not just the spectrum that I'm concerned about: frequency is only a part of what REW measures. The other major part is time-domain, and the other way of looking at…
beau, 14 August 2013That would be great! I am using a first generation m-audio fast track for the measurement, but because it does not have phantom power, I am using a preamp in front of it…
beau, 17 August 2013Sorry for the delay on measurements. I am in Korea for the weekend, and I was not able to get the measurements done before I left. But it has given me some more time to…
beau, 22 August 2013Ok. Here is the MDAT File... http://www.beauburchell.com//impulse%20 ... 22-13.mdat I included 9 and 10 ft measurements.. at this point, 10ft feels better overall when…
Soundman2020, 23 August 2013Assuming you did the calibration correctly, then the tests were done at a level that is way too low. The graphs are showing an average level of around 65 dB: It should…

Page 3

beau, 23 August 2013Whoa! Thank you so much Stuart! I will try to answer each question best I can below.. My spl meter no longer works, So I went to radio shack and bought a new one and it…
beau, 28 August 2013I am planning on treating these problems when I return home from vacation. Are you able to give me a directions list on how to treat the problems properly and an order I…
Soundman2020, 30 August 2013#1 and #2 are great ideas, but I don't see the need for #3. You basically have a couple of feet of pure absorption there, and it certainly seems to be working fine for…
Soundman2020, 30 August 2013It doesn't go behind the ceiling: The ceiling is already in place. What I'm talking about is a "cloud", which is a large thing that hangs a bit below the ceiling. A…
beau, 30 August 2013Yes, I understand about the cloud. I think I may have worded it wrong. The way I understand it, my existing angled front ceiling is a cloud without rigid backing. The…
beau, 4 September 2013So... after some more thought... (time on vacation, but all I can think about is fixing the CR issues) A CR revamp seems like it could be a nice idea. Here is what I am…
Soundman2020, 22 September 2013As far as I know, there isn't much research on hangers out there! But from the empirical results that John and others have been getting with them, they do work very…