Bitangas Cave

Hi, I am djoki and I have been reading this forum since I finished my first garage/studio conversion. Bevor I started the garage/ studio conversion I was running to get some knowledge about acoustic insulation because my main problem at that time was to get in no conflict with my neighbours. There was no time left to get some knowledge about room acoustics because i was under pressure to finish it. This is now 1,5 Yaers ago... I started some actions to fix the acoustic problem but never reached the goal. The goal ist that I have a room wich is acousticly good threated so that I can make the final mix bevor it goes to a mastering studio. I would not like to spend more than 1500 € wich is 1900 $. 1) Is this possible? Before a moderator pushes the thread in the acoustic forum I want to say that the situation changed. Now i have a second garage next to the one I all ready got. :D It should be my recording room for percussion, bass and for the most important thing ..the vocals. I’m not really shure how i should design Bitangas Cave and i hope you can help me with it. Let’s take a look at the pictures... ....out of our kitchen window on the garages... ...a view nearly from the opposite site on the garages and our flat. The 2 gerages in the middle are mine Garage 1 is the one that i got first and Garage 2 is the new one :mrgreen: frontal from right Garage 1 open Garage 1 first door open (Steeldoors)...if I want to open the first door the gate of the garage has to be totally opn (or closed):mrgreen: Garage 1 second door open Garage 1 Step inside Garage 1 inside frontal left Ventilator doesn't work fine ...I need more air because it's gettin to fast stuffy Garage 1 inside frontal right behind the mic you can see this Garage 1 inside back left Garage 2 open Garage 2 step inside...the black cable goes into Garage 1, This is the electrictiy. Air Garage 2 (and Garage 1) rear view The walls of both garages are out of some light concrete And this is how the floor looks like... I saw that you guys draw with sketch up. I tried it and fell in love with this tool. Sizes main electricity Air Lil roof, Brickwall and Door metal studs ...they are only in contact with the roof and the floor electricty 2 ...halogen lamps...switches...sockets Insulation gypsum borad or sheetrock metalstuds ceeling...i used this technic http://www.knauf.de/bilder/katalog/3376 ... d131_e.pdf Insulation ceeling floor ...I used rubber squares that are made for washingmachines.. http://img117.imageshack.us/my.php?image=5e12sb8mv.jpg ...and put Laminat (fake wood) on it. And thats hqw it looks now Measuring Results Garage 1 was measured by some engineers I paid. The engineers brougt an absorber to check what works in the room. It was this one...

The FLAXORBER absorbs disturbing reflections from walls. It´s compositon of materials and it´s special frame-design smoothly covers a wide frequency range from high treble down to mid-bass. The ramp-construction with a thickness from 16 to 9 centimeters enures linear broad-band response also provides a great optical apparence to your facility. It´s dimensions are 150 x 80 x 16 (9) cm Wrapped into a special acoustic garment it looks as it sounds: simply beautyful. http://www.digitalaudioservice.de/cms/m ... france.pdf

The best result came when they put the absorber on the ceeling... I think you call this cloud.... Some more informations: My neighbours only heare the basses when i turn up the max volume i work with. I think i have to live with it and don't turn up at night. I have rented the garages for 5 years (minimum this is fixed) and if i leave the place i have to take all out. This is one reason why i would not like to put a window between the garages. i thnk about using a camara to be in visual contact with the recording room. The second reason is...when you look at the rear view of the garages you see that the walls are of concrete blocks with metalstuds in between. I want to integrate aircondition because it is gettin to fast stuffy. I think about to soffit the speakers. The weakest point of all is the height of the garages. It's about 220,5 cm and scales down to 205,5 cm at the end. When I put 10 cm insulation+ sheetrock on the ceeling and make some 5 cm floor treatment and a "cloud".... there is not much hight left. It is gonna be something like a cockpit. In sketchup model I did not realize the down scale of the height but all other draws are very close to reality. Bitangas Cave.. How it is now (.skp) Bitangas Cave.. in future (.skp) (I added O300 Speakers of K+H with wich I want to work with) What you think?

djoki wrote:

What you think?

Hmmm...do you still think or you forgot me? :(

How will you route the audio/video wires between garages?

peritus wrote:

How will you route the audio/video wires between garages?

Hi it depends on the design of the second garage. For audio i think about a Stagebox.. and for video maybe i don't need to wire because there are cheap wirless solutions.

http://www.alarm.de/security/pd11157169 ... tegoryId=5 An otherway is to buy a second TV/ Computer monitor and do it via scart with my digicam.