Key posts: I'm back seeking design ideas for basement studio #2
Substantial posts by andy_eade, who started the thread, and by the forum’s most active contributors. 56 of 85 posts are listed.
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andy_eade, 13 September 2013Greetings everyone, About 8 years ago I came here ready to soundproof my basement and ended up with a recording studio that exceeded my every expectation. In that time I…
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Soundman2020, 14 September 2013Hi Andy, and good to see you back for more torture! :) Your original build thread was like reading a horror story: Every time I thought you had finally beaten one bad…
andy_eade, 27 September 2013Please excuse the bump. Just wanted to make sure I have provided all the required info. I know everyone is very busy and know that it's tough to find time for these…
Soundman2020, 2 October 2013Adding to what Johnnie said: your control room is not laid out symmetrically, and that is critical. The console, the speakers and your head must all be centered…
andy_eade, 4 October 2013Thanks guys. I'm going back to the drawing board. Sight lines are important but of no use if the rooms sound awful! The bedroom, bathroom, and Furnace Room are pretty…
Soundman2020, 5 October 2013Getting back to your original questions....: That's probably not necessary, although you could do that if you need the storage. Your isolation plan can be tweaked to…
andy_eade, 20 October 2013Thanks so much for your replies Stuart and Johnnie, and my apologies for the delayed response. With our second child due at any moment (Due Date Oct 28) my honey-do list…
andy_eade, 7 November 2013Hi Guys, The new baby boy arrived into this world safely last Monday I'm pleased to announce. It has of course been a bit busy since then, but I did get a couple of…
Soundman2020, 11 November 2013Wooohooo! Congratulations, Andy! :yahoo: As soon as your room is not perfectly rectangular, then the usual on-line room-ratio calculators are no longer accurate.…
andy_eade, 20 November 2013Thanks so much Stuart - that's a great help. Any feedback in general on Triangular rooms? I was doing some poking around elsewhere and it seemed that they aren't the…
andy_eade, 21 January 2014Thank you both for your feedback. I really suck at the designing part and have gone back and forth 100 times (no exaggeration) on various different configurations. I…
Soundman2020, 30 January 2014OK, but what are the actual dimensions? That matters too! IT is inside the Bolt Area, so it should work. And plain rectangular rooms can certainly make good studios!…
andy_eade, 31 January 2014Hi Stuart, Thanks so much for answering my questions. I'm very relieved to hear about the drum room sound and CR size. You'll be pleased (or perhaps concerned) to hear…
andy_eade, 9 February 2014So I've been hard at work learning Sketchup and boy what a difference a little reading makes - I feel so much more comfortable with it now - thank you Sketchup for…
andy_eade, 13 February 2014No worries Stuart - I totally understand. I've been there with studio software so many times! I've actually been working an numerous different configurations in Sketchup…
andy_eade, 14 February 2014Hey Kevin! It's great to see a familiar face around here. I was wondering what had happened to many of the friends made during the last build. I'm excited to learn more…
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andy_eade, 16 February 2014Hey Kevin - actually the Ruby Housebuilder plugin does it all for you - you just tell it whether you want 16oc or 24"oc, the plate height, header height, lumber size,…
andy_eade, 16 February 2014Well I finally have a plan to show you all and would really welcome your constructive criticism. I've tried all manner of orientations and approaches - splayed walls,…
andy_eade, 17 February 2014Yep that's a really good point you raise about bass trapping both corners. The reason I had the sound lock was to enclose the structural support that you can see there…
andy_eade, 17 February 2014Hi Stuart, I did try doing a corner CR design a while ago inspired by the one in Rod's book, but I really struggled to get one to work with a door out of the CR in a…
andy_eade, 18 February 2014So I spent all day yesterday playing with various different room shapes and sizes. I attempted the middle control room and the corner room with a number of sizes (using…
andy_eade, 18 February 2014One other thing based on Kevin's feedback. I recall watching a video on Mitch Gallagher's home studio where he talked about using a "leaky wall" as a bass trap at the…
andy_eade, 19 February 2014Yes that's the one Kevin - here's the video in question for anyone else that is interested: http://youtu.be/FuRiqoNRDmc The discussion about the leaky wall starts around…
andy_eade, 20 February 2014And here's my latest sketch ( .skp file is here ). As you can see it's a variation on the previous design using the "leaky wall" at the back of the CR, but splays the…
andy_eade, 21 February 2014I've created a slightly improved sketchup file here that took care of a couple of issues: 1. Created access to the Fireplace Ashbox on the south wall by starting the…
andy_eade, 25 February 2014So I've been doing further tweaking to the plan (not to be confused with twerking of course) and you can see the latest Sketchup File here ... However, having lived with…
andy_eade, 26 February 2014Okay I think I may finally have something here. :idea: I have rotated the CR 90 degrees counter clockwise which allows me to add the door away from the bass trapping…
Soundman2020, 26 February 2014Now THAT I like! that makes a lot more sense, Andy! :thu: If you slide the entrance door a bit further back, and put in a window to that "hallway", it would make a great…
andy_eade, 26 February 2014:D :D :D :D :D :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: You have no idea how happy your reply made me Stuart! Seeing your thumbs up means the world to me! So naturally I have a few…
Soundman2020, 26 February 2014Yup! You got it. If you are standing inside the "spring" of the MSM system, then you are in the acoustic war zone! Don't forget that that's a two-way street in there:…
Soundman2020, 26 February 2014Sorry, I missed a part in my answer above: Well, you can do an RFZ that is pretty decent without soffit mounting, but you'd still be left with all the usual artifacts of…
andy_eade, 27 February 2014On no - feel better soon Kevin! Ok Stuart - so I took a quick stab at following your superb instructions (many thanks for the explanation) and am pasting a shot below so…
Soundman2020, 28 February 2014Right! The "rays" just mark a few points on the continuous range of angles that a sound wave expands along. The higher the frequency the more it acts like a ray, but the…
andy_eade, 28 February 2014Thanks to you both - this has really turned out to be a great learning experience and my Sketchup chops just keep on getting better. It's funny to think that only a…
Soundman2020, 1 March 2014You are missing something rather important in your model, Andy: Your soffits! Most of those problematic rays will be hitting your soffit baffle, not the walls, and the…
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andy_eade, 1 March 2014That's a fair point you make :oops: So much for that being a timesaver! :) Ok, so I will go look at them again with the baffles. I thought that the baffles were angled…
Soundman2020, 1 March 2014Right! It sure is 30° measured from the FRONT wall, . . . which is 60° when measured from the SIDE walls... :) :cop: Like this: Image not preserved:…
andy_eade, 5 March 2014Hey Guys, I'm back to the drawing board and trying to find an RFZ design that will work. Thanks so much Kevin for taking the time to draw out that idea. I'm really…
Soundman2020, 5 March 2014:thu: Right! That's one of the reasons why it isn't necessary to chase perfection in room ratios. My normal recommendation is just "stay away form the bad ones, get…
andy_eade, 5 March 2014Hey Kevin! In my case I already have the window (salvaged from my last build) and already have the PTZ camera's etc since I do a lot of live streaming - so the cost of…
andy_eade, 6 March 2014My wife truly is amazing. She puts up with all of my artistic idiosyncrasies. Luckily (miraculously) for me she married me knowing what she was getting in to. I had…
andy_eade, 7 March 2014Ok Stuart. Hoping you can help me here. So I finally got an RFZ design to work with the wall splay starting a bit further in as you suggested, and with an angle of 22.5…
Soundman2020, 7 March 2014In an ideal, perfect world, yes. But most home studios don't fit that! :) I'm more inclined to go for about 30 - 40 cm, realistically. There are two other options open…
andy_eade, 7 March 2014Thanks Stuart I will go through these and find a way to make this work. I also noticed last night while playing with Bob Golds calculator that I can increase the room…
andy_eade, 7 March 2014Yeah I did download it this morning and plugged in my proposed dimensions. Very cool new feature that they added although I wonder how much it translates to…
andy_eade, 8 March 2014So the door fits just fine now, the widening of the room helped me get RFZ without deviating from a 30 degree speaker angle :yahoo: but my question de jour is - how does…
andy_eade, 10 March 2014Sorry Stuart, I should have been more specific. What I had in mind for this hallway / booth / soundlock area was to use Rod's SuperDoor approach. I'm just concerned as…
andy_eade, 11 March 2014Hey Kevin, I'm still working on adding the final framing, electrical, and mechanical details and will post the .skp file then (unless it is not clear from the attached…
andy_eade, 11 March 2014Actually no not quite. All walls are double stud walls with a one inch gap between, with the exception of the wall at the top of the CR and bottom of the drum booth -…
andy_eade, 15 January 2015Hi Stuart, Kevin, and all, Well after quite an eventful year I am finally back and able to dedicate time to this project - my apologies for the radio silence. There has…
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Soundman2020, 16 January 2015Hey Andy! Good to see you are still around, and moving forward! :) About that pole: In a similar situation for a guy in Canada who needed extreme isolation, what I did…
andy_eade, 16 January 2015Thanks Stuart and thanks so much for your reply. I like option #1. It's kind of what my initial instinct was telling me and pretty cheap and easy to do. What kind of…
andy_eade, 19 January 2015I was just reading through this thread and coming to the conclusion that I would indeed need to replace the glass with one single pane of laminated glass when it…
Soundman2020, 27 February 2015Hi Andy, and apologies for the looooong delay... :oops: It doesn't really matter: As far as I recall, we used Roxul mineral wool panels for there, probably around 50…
andy_eade, 9 January 2019The new build has officially begun!!! :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: 75 sheets of drywall and 1312 linear feet of 1x3’s arrived Monday for the beef up stage which begun…