attic studio

Started by jerfitz5 on 26 September 2003. 10 replies.

Originally posted at johnlsayers.com, topic 740.

Ahoy, My wife and I recently bought a house and I wanna put a small recording studio in the attic. It's an sturdy old house and the floors in the attic are stone. I want to record rock :twisted: so some isolation from outside is necessary. So...any ideas how to optimize this room? All and any comments or ideas would be thoroghly appriciated :!: The dimensions are as follows 9m x 5m The roof forms a 90 degree angle 4.15 m high in the center. the door is in the center of the one of the 9m long walls. Cheers, Jeremy
Is this correct Jeremy?? cheers john
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No, like this...
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This is what I've come up with so far. It's a little cosy. I'll be using a laptop and near field monitors so I won't need to much room. Waddaya think?
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OK - i'd use the space like this - it uses all the volume. cheers john
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Yeah...I could definitely use the space. I was working under the impression that these beams would carry sound from room to room. Do you think the space is two small to cut into two rooms? One of my objectives is to be able to get drum sounds with out having to constantly record and playback (hence 2 rooms) although the sound quality is obviously the first concern. p.s. This site rocks!
Can you use the space in the hallway between your room and the staircase?? cheers john
Sure, what do you have in mind?
I've got this in mind :) cheers john
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Brilliant! I love it!...but the wife doesn't. It's an old house, late 1800's, and she wants to keep the old house charm. Women.
well do it out in red hardwood with lots of decorative stuff and finish the cloth in billiard table green and it'll look olde stuff :):) stick some olde ancestor pics on the walls ;) cheers john