Len Morgan's Studio Build Diary

I'll be hollering soon for the tour. LOL I am trying to figure out how to build my soffits. I have read this forum a thousand times I think on forums alone. Anyway, I'll holler soon.

I'll be hollering soon for the tour. LOL I am trying to figure out how to build my soffits. I have read this forum a thousand times I think on forums alone. Anyway, I'll holler soon.

Hey Len I'm using the same drop seals that you used and I was wondering how they worked out for you. Did you use a threshold?

Jester, Sorry it's taken me so long to respond (almost 2 years!). I've been so busy "playing" in my studio that I haven't been here in that long. To answer your question, if you're still interested, I've only installed one of them so far. The information on the web site where I got them told you how to measure your doors for them (I've got three different sizes) but there are actually TWO ways to measure depending on whether you are mounting them IN the door (i.e., but routing out a channel for them) or mounting them ON the door (screwed to the door). I ordered the wrong size (50/50 chance) and so I had to saw off about 1/4" in order for the door to close properly. One thing I hadn't considered that turned out to be important is the flatness of the floor that it's going to be on. Because of a slight rise in the floor level between the fully open and fully closed locations, I had to play with the mounting a couple of times so I could get a good seal when it was closed and still clear the floor when it was fully open. Hopefully you won't have that kind of problem with your floor. To be honest, I really can't tell if the one I've installed is effective or not. If it is, it's only a few dB at best but in my case, the way the studio is laid out, bleed through isn't much of a problem. len

Now that I've had my studio up and running for a few years, I'm considering making a change and I've come back for some advice. Basically, what I want to do is to cut my "big room" in half but constructing a wall in line with the columns that run down the middle of it. I'll move my control room to the side with the vocal booth on it (so the vocal booth doors will open into the control room). I've never needed a room that big and would have preferred to have two rooms instead for recording multiple guitars. Where my current control room is, I'd convert into an additional recording room. My question is: If I used an "inside out" wall (cloth covered rock wool on one side, multiple layers of drywall on the other, which side should I have on the control room side? The new wall would be directly across from the wooden helmholtz resonator wall you can see in the pictures earlier in this thread. My mixing desk would be facing the wooden wall (through glass) and my monitors would be fairly close to the new wall so I don't know if I want absorbsion or a solid surface for the back of the monitors to bounce off of. I'd appreciate any advice y'all could offer. Thanks! Len Morgan

Yet another thread that should have been updated onto the "finished studios" list when it was finished, but that didn't happen at the time. But it's there now, in it's rightful place . . . viewtopic.php?f=10&t=5842 :thu: - Stuart -