Building Studio in Cellar from ground up

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Building Studio in Cellar from ground up

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Hi guys, big up for this site!
I am planing to build my new studio in this room and need any advice you can give me.
It should be a Mixing room and recording vocals.
Should I build two room? Or is it better to use the complete room
as a Mixing room and record vocals in the Mixing room?
If you need any more information let me know.
I am located in Germany. I know a little bit about acoustic elements,
I read as much as I can! :-)
Thank you very much!
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Re: Building Studio in Cellar from ground up

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Hi. Please read the forum rules for posting (click here). You seem to be missing a couple of things! :)

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sorry, I will read it as fast es possible! ;)
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Re: Building Studio in Cellar from ground up

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If I forgot something please let me know!
I read the terms and try to follow the rules.
I used the search function but found nothing to
my may be most important question:
Should I split the room for a recording and mixing romm
or should I keep the complete size for the control
room and record in there my vocals.
Thank you very much!

And I tried to find out how build the walls and read some topics
but I would like to see a tutorials or something like that.
If you've got link It would be very nice! Thank you very much!
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Re: Building Studio in Cellar from ground up

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Should I split the room for a recording and mixing romm
or should I keep the complete size for the control
room and record in there my vocals.
That's more of a persona decision: That size space would be good for a control room, but if you make it a lot smaller by trying to fit in a second room, they would both be small. That might be fine for some people, and the acoustics could still be reasonably good in both rooms... just not as good as for one large room.

So the question is: Do you NEED a separate booth to record? Or would you be able to work just fine without that? If you really do need it, then you could do that, by making both rooms small. If you don't need it, then don't do it!
And I tried to find out how build the walls and read some topics
but I would like to see a tutorials or something like that.
If you've got link It would be very nice! Thank you very much!
I'd suggest two books: "Master Handbook of Acoustics" by F. Alton Everest (that's sort of the Bible for acoustics), and "Home Recording Studio: Build it Like the Pros", by Rod Gervais.

And also study some of the many hundreds of threads here on the forum, done by people who already built their studios. There's a LOT of very useful information in those!

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Re: Building Studio in Cellar from ground up

Post by Superior »

Thank you very much Stuart,
I dont seprate them I will use the whole rooms as a Control
and Recording room!

I will get the books! ;)
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