hey its hot in here!

I have built a studio in the basement of a store. Its summer in NY and it gets hot..... how do basement people keep it cool?

air conditioning!

Yeah, AC is the number 1 thing forgotten or under-estimated by DIY studio builders. Think about it, you have done everything possible to tighten up the acoustics of your room(s) and in doing so, you have killed off all airflow. Then you install racks filled with gear in your control room and a few big tube guitar amps in the live room. Add several sweaty guys jumping up and down in the live room and you have a HEAVY AC load. That tiny window unit that worked fine on your 90sf dorm room is not worth plugging in - you will need a good sized unit for both rooms. I am now a 100% location recording guy, so I only have a small control room for editing, no live room at all. And my control room is very small, only 14ft x 8ft, a little under 120sf. My room and one other like it is served by a commercial rooftop AC unit and it works, but without much extra capacitiy. A third similar room would probably overload the unit. In fairness, both my room and the other edit bay are LOADED with gear, including lots of old tube gear that just cooks! But even if your entire "studio" resides inside a single G4 (all plugins, no hardware) you still have a room with no airflow and at least a couple of humans giving off heat (in addition to the substantial heat from the G4). Even in the most temperate locations, a properly sized AC unit is a necessity, in a steambath like NY state in the summer time, figure out your expected load and double it! I don't want to ruin everybody's fun, but $500 per every 100sf of studio space might be a fair budget for AC equipment. For a typical 150sf single room home studio, a small commercial unit, around 10k btu will keep everybody happy on those 90 degree, 90 percent humidity days.