design comments on this setup?

yeah, i'd say it was pretty expensive, luckily, i haven't paid for materials! i provide the labor, the homeowner provides for material.. if i remember correctly, the rock is about 11-14$/sqft. (i think the floor was close to $4/sq ft w/ underlayment, on sale, it's a Berry, Lounge series) but since the contractor who built the house originally is also a friend, (who also did the false rock upstairs) he helped us do this within our schedule, and budget and did a nice job. (the rock is the only thing i've not done myself.) the paint we've used has been sherwin williams: we've gone through about 5 gallons of primer, 1 coat on everything, and 4gallons of color for the walls and two coats each color. we also have 1 gallon for the trim. I think the paint was $30-40/gl because of the deep color. i haven't totalled everything up, but i think everything so far has been about $8k... i might try and detail a post later about specific costs since I know it's good for people planning a studio to see actuall costs. thanks for the compliments guys... i'm really trying to get it ready for a september open house. so keep checking back, i hope to make good progress in the next couple weeks. but i've got a lot of details to attend to, not to mention the entire control room... but that should go much quicker since i'm not actually building anything but the acoustical treatments. k

Hey K, man, that's simply BEAUTIFUL...that rock...Niiiiiiiiiiiiiice touch! Congrats on some mighty fine work!

hey all, well, though not much progress as I would have hoped, but i have been working on the studio and only played halo 3 for 2hours last night! the 360 has otherwise been in it's box! (Honest!) so this is going to be a whirlwind update - of mostly random things i've been working on. for the last couple months. The biggies done are the window and doors, and i've started the slot resonators. the first three pix are of how I finished the door thresholds. The I extended the laminate floor through both doors. I used two different transitions that are sold with the floor, :first pix shows a transition down to the cement floor (which will not be finished). :second pix shows how the transitions are only about 1/4" difference from the rest of the floor. there was a good bit of measurement so that the doors would seal properly, which they do. :) :third pix shows how they look completed. (with saw dust for good measure) fourth pix shows the lesson for ppl to pay more attention when they cut boxes in their drywall, otherwise, you'll end up like me fixing them all again and again because they don't line up with the boxes or are gapped to big. sloppy work is not good. :evil: fifth is the cable pass: i did go with a smaller, electrical grade conduit, instead of the 4" drain pipe. and.... noise tests are hillarious... the pipe transfers the audio better than most speakers i've owned... i'm going to come up with a mini door and seal for them, so that they will be quiet. for all you ppl who don't understand how so much sound travels through them, go to your local playground, where they have installed these tubes across the playground for kids to talk to each other... now shorten that to a few feet, and you have a great conduit for sound waves... hmmm.....

so you also can see from the last pix that I've put in baseboards... and the final moldings on the doors and finished the window. so, heres a brief of how i did the gap treatment... got 2" 703. some black fabric cut the 703 (with a putty knife)... cut the fabric to overlap the back sprayed on a bit of 3M super77 folded said fabric, and wiggled them into place. I put in a few coat hanger wires to make the joint between the peices the window is longer than the 48" insulation. (this was probably not necessar, but made wrapping and moving the longer peices around a little easier.)

so i've also been starting to address the control room: i'm only finishnig part of the back wall, as most of it will be done with soft/absorbant panels... but i have a few sheets fo drywall left, so i'll hang them while i'm at it. I also ordered adn recieved my fabric... $450 later :shock: I have 4 rolls of fabric from here: www.fabricsonline.biz Quantity Name Item number Unit price Total price ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20 EGGPLANT A10 USD 5.50 USD 110.00 28 Black 50" wide burlap C3 USD 4.50 USD 126.00 20 FERN A12 USD 5.50 USD 110.00 20 OLIVE A25 USD 5.50 USD 110.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amount: USD 456.00 Total amount: USD 456.00 this should cover all fo my panels, and the black will be used for either the slot resonators or the ceiling... and yes, everything will be fire treated! I cut 8 sheets of plywood for about 5 hours this weekend to make slats, and if you look at the insulation, you can see thats about 4" of sawdust! i have also been sanding for about 7hours... once with 120 and again at 220 in prep for staining tonight! i've switched stain colors, to golden pecan. the red oak stain was too dark, and didn't alow the wood grain of the oak and birch to come through. so thats about it for now... hopefully i'll have more in the next week or two of some actual studio use!!!~! kevin

realized i didn't have a pix of the doors.... so here are the doors in construction state...

ok, i didn't just quit working on the studio ya know... i just got an xbox360... so i was.... uh... distracted. heres what i've been working on. control room rear wall (and steps)... insulation, drywalled... painted... trim work is done... after breaking several base molding... we gave up on wood and bought some flex molding... expensive stuff @ $8/ft... but installed like a dream :) I also put in the lights for the control room... they look cool, and i only blew up one dimmer! (figures it was the last of four... see what happens when you get careless!)

part of the trim was finishing the projector door... it looks great, however, its not as functional as i would hope for... you have to move the projector back into the cavity to close the door... hmm... it's a pain... so i'm sure it won't happen often. and installed the hook rails and started on some of the absorbers... i also have 6 of 8 slot resonators done, but no pix yet ;) hopefully soon...

Holy crap, sandledfoot! I missed the rock wall first time around. This build is looking awesome, can't wait to see the pics of the slot resonators. Very cool!

well, time for an update. and i'm posting my artsy shots too!!! i've been able to hone my skills in making some fabric wrapped panels... the hold up for a while was the "hanging" part... just not sure how i was going to attach something to it to hang securely... so i invented a corkscrew! well... i guese i didn't invent it, but i did make a bunch of them... the process went as the pictures show... JWL there are some pix of the slot resonators.... fuzzy, cuz its dark in there... and yes, my slot lines are cut crooked... not really intentional... but thats what you get with a circular saw (three blades later). (and an action shot!!!) (it was kinda the first session in there... but we were really just playin...) enjoy... k

heres some shots of how i made the corkscrews that i use to hang the panels... i used just a normal roll of ceiling tile wire hanger... cut to length, twisted (as uniformily as possible) into a cork screw, made a double loop for the hanging part and screwed it into the edge of the panel... (carefull not to poke through ...) and the 703 panel wrapping... i made both 2inch and 1inch panels last night... both were done in identical fassion... started by laying the fabric out, cut the length so that there was roughly a 3" overlap onto the back of the panels.... (so the easiest way of cutting is to actually wrap and then mark your panel (then you can take measurements and cut all of the fabric if need be)... then, panel and fabric lined up, glued the edge and back of the panel w/ 3M super77 ( then spray for fireproofing!!!! the middle panel in the picture was a demo model, where you can see the hooks (were pretty sloppy...) so i upgraded that in my corkscrew design to two small loops... much cleaner thats it...

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and.... so, the tracking room is sounding tighter already with half of the panels and no bass traps (yet to come)... and the control room is quiet and seems balanced... theres a slight ring in the mid range... but i haven't gotten close to doing tests... k

not exactly shameless self promotion... rather the first official full length "product" of the year + construction endeavor and maybe give a glimer of hope to those who are going through it now... this was about year in the making in the new space (thats a year of recording after a year of construction :) or so)... www.samlamont.com "Prominade" so, ultimately, i can post a few pictures of the studio, however, I thought it only fitting you could "hear" it. feel free to contact me with questions or comments. I will post a few additional pictures soon of the final final version, as I just got a new camera :) but, i just wanted to really say thanks again to all who helped me make this possible... IE all of you guys. cheers! sandled

If you are still around here on the forum, it would be great to get some photos of the finished studio! I'm putting together a list of links to finished studios, and yours is on it... but the thread is sort of incomplete without a few final photos to close it out. - Stuart -

stuart, guess that depends on what definition of completed is... but I'll put up some pix :) k

:thu: :yahoo: :) - Stuart -

C'mon you know the rule - pics or it didn't happen! :lol:

OK, as promised... better late than never? These pictures will be just in time for me to begin my second forum thread, where I start discussing Sandledfoot Studios, ver 2.0 I want to say many many many thanks to John, Stuart, Gullfo, Rod, Eric, Steve, Andy and many others who have put time and effort into helping others work on and achieve their dreams. This was the first version of my studio, and hopefully i'm going to be able to start my second, permanent home studio soon. I again will rely on the generosity and knowledge of others to help me along, in that respect, I'm greatly thankful, and looking forward to the next journey to begin! cheers, Kevin