Studio Remodel Photo Story

Someone from another forum suggested that you guys might like to see my photo story of the remodel of my modest home based studio. Of course, I use to visit here a lot to get info, so I should have thought of posting here first! Not so long ago, I just did a pretty sizable remodel to the existing spaces I was using for my home based production studio. I posted all the photos I took during the process, and put little captions on each photo to tell the story. You can view it here: http://www.dbar-productions.com/album/index.html I didn't get many photos of the contractors actually doing the work, since I was quite busy at the time working on projects in my office, but I generally took photos at the end of each day to show that day's progress. I couldn't afford everything that I really wanted to do with the place, but this was a good starting point, and I may do more later. Got rid of my old Whisper Room vocal booth and have a big enough space to track drums now... just got the extra mics and stands for doing drums, so hopefully I'll be able to test the room out for that in the near future. Steve

I'll try to post the layout graphics of the before and after. This first one is my own very rough layout of the studio space before the remodel, roughly showing how my equipment was originally laid out. The Yellow lines were where I wanted to add or modify walls... there originally was not a wall between the lounge area and the control room, just that bathroom that stuck out half-way across the room behind my mix position. The red line on the wall between the control room and booth is where the door was originally. Remember, these were existing finished spaces that I was using, so I wasn't building into a space from scratch. The measurements are a little rough, and may be off by an inch or so, but close enough.

Now here is the layout as drawn up by the acoustic consultant before I did any work. The gear closet sticking out into the garage is not to scale... he left that to use to figure out what we needed... it's actually wider and deeper than shown on the drawing. Also, he ran the numbers for a rectangular room to figure out the best dimensions and figured we should lower the ceiling or raise the floor a bit to get to the best ratio, but that was too much work and not in my budget, so I left the ceiling and floor the way they were (about 4" higher than his recommended height). He also put an option in to add a second wall and door inside the studio space, but that would greatly reduce the size of that already fairly small room, and isolation was not my primary concern with the remodel.

Thanks for posting those. I enjoyed looking at them. Looks like you'll have a great time in your studio.