future garage studio, anywhere close

brettster · Post by **brettster** » Tue Nov 11, 2003 1:36 pm

First of all, thanks for this site. All sorts of great information.

Now down to business... I've got a garage area in the barn behind my house I want to turn into studio space. The usable space is 22' x 15' 5" x 8' 5".

I've created a floor plan based on some of the other plans I've seen here. Am I on the right track? Comments please!

Thanks,
Brett

giles117 · Post by **giles117** » Tue Nov 11, 2003 2:15 pm

Control room is on track though I'd make it a little wider than 10'. Maybe 12 or 13' wide.

You can still fit a drum kit in the live room even if it is 10' wide. I did.

Bryan Giles

brettster · Post by **brettster** » Wed Nov 12, 2003 2:15 pm

Since it appears that I was going in the right direction, I went back and made sure that my dimensions correct and unfortuneately my inside walls with the drywall doubled up are going to be 6 inches thick, which means that after resizing the live room to 10 feet wide, the control room only grew by 9 inches.

Another issue I haven't quite come to grips with is how to approach the ceiling. Right now it's just exposed 2 x 8 floor joists. I assume it shouldn't be parallel to the floor and should have some absorption. What's the preferred way to approach this? I want to avoid losing too much height. As it is now, I figure it will be slightly less than 8' after I get the floor in.

Brett

Post by **John Sayers** » Wed Nov 12, 2003 3:36 pm

Brett - how far away are the neighbours?? do you really need 6" walls?

go and taqke a look at Left Bank at http://johnlsayers.com/Studio/Mainpage/MP-Leftbank.htm

This is a typical Barn - the closest house is 100 yards away yet they can rewcord drums at midnight without anyone else being concerned.

The advantage of the building technique is that you retain almost all your floor space due to the inside out wall construction.

cheers
john

brettster · Post by **brettster** » Wed Nov 12, 2003 11:03 pm

John,

Actually I was wondering if my walls were thicker than necessary, but I was erring on the side of caution. The nearest neighbor is about 50 feet from the studio area and then there are a few others just a bit farther than that. I'm less concerned with keeping sound in than with keeping sound out. There is a plant across the street that is particularily noisy when the shift changes. There is a lot of farming in this area as well so there are frequently tractors and trucks driving past.

I looked at the Left Bank project before, but somehow I missed the wall diagram. That's a cool looking studio. What's the final thickness of the wall? Also, It looks like the walls put directly on the concrete before the floor is installed. I've seen other diagrams here where the wall is built on top of the floated floor. Which is more typical?

Thanks,
Brett

Post by **John Sayers** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 2:36 am

If you look at the first stage of construction you'll see the inside out walls being put up. Yes the floor was added later - because the client decided on adding the extra expense after the fact. It would have been better to do it first and build the wall on it as you said.

cheers
John

Fieryjack · Post by **Fieryjack** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 8:10 am

I am actually putting up the walls in my studio first (in the live room and iso booths), then putting its floors down, then floating the floor of the control room (which sits between the other two rooms) then building ITs walls on the floor.

I hope this is okay...I guess we'll see

brettster · Post by **brettster** » Sat Nov 15, 2003 11:04 am

John,

Thanks for the suggestion about the inside out wall. It took me a while, but I think understand the concept now. (Actually, most of this stuff makes my head spin

). I'm going to adjust my drawing now and see how things come out.

Brett

Post by **John Sayers** » Sat Nov 15, 2003 12:13 pm

Brett - check out this thread

http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=974

the plan I just posted is exactly the same dimensions as yours I think.

cheers
john

brettster · Post by **brettster** » Sat Nov 15, 2003 1:04 pm

John-

D**n! You're good! I just read that thread a little while back before you posted that last drawing and I was thinking that I ought to do something about the shape of my live room. Then boom! you post that drawing and it looks like I can an ISO booth as well, which is something that I wanted but didn't think I had room for.

Actually it's kind of spooky, but I can live with that.

Thanks again,
Brett

brettster · Post by **brettster** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 1:10 pm

John -

I took that the last design you pointed me to and it didn't quite fit my dimensions so I redid it to fit my space. I also added in labels for where I think the acoustical treatments for the control room should be. Hopefully, I didn't mess anything up in the translation.

For the crowd at large -

I would like to get some opinions (hopefully based on experience) about how to treat the acoustics for the live room and booth.

Brett

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