Scotth's studio build thread. 95% complete..
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2018 2:20 am
I started planning (i.e. dreaming) to have a music room before long before I had a chance to build a new home.
For reference I had Rod Gervais' "Home Recording studio: Build it like the Pros" and to fill in the missing pieces I signed up at this wonderful forum. I spent countless hours planning, measuring and thinking about how everything would come together well before I took my first swing of the hammer.
For your reference; I'm an electrician by trade, and have done many home renos in the past. I also owned most of the tools I needed to complete this job.
What I wanted: I room that I could have band practice in at any time of the day. I also have considered, one day, using the room to do professional recording and mixing.
My wife and I were fortunate enough to have a custom home built for us in 2015 -2016. A music room was part of the plan from the beginning. With that in mind, we had the basement built accordingly. ( No window in the music room, 8'4 ceilings, in floor heating)
From there, I built a "room within a room" complete with an independent ceiling. All of the walls had a double layer of 5/8" drywall with green glue in between each layer. I also added a double layer of 5/8" drywall to the underside of the existing floor.
For a finished ceiling I built a "reverse ceiling"; the drywall is on top of the ceiling joists with insulation in the middle and burlap fabric as a finish material. (the idea is, that you end up with your whole ceiling being sonically treated.) That's the concept, read further to see how it turned out.
The finished room dimensions came to 10'8" x 18'4" with ceiling heights of 7'11 and 6'9". Size wise, I can fit a 4 piece easily, and could probably cram in a 5th or 6th. The big question will be how well the a/c keeps up in the summer with that many people.
Here's the room before I started, with some pics of the ceiling joists to show what I was up against
For reference I had Rod Gervais' "Home Recording studio: Build it like the Pros" and to fill in the missing pieces I signed up at this wonderful forum. I spent countless hours planning, measuring and thinking about how everything would come together well before I took my first swing of the hammer.
For your reference; I'm an electrician by trade, and have done many home renos in the past. I also owned most of the tools I needed to complete this job.
What I wanted: I room that I could have band practice in at any time of the day. I also have considered, one day, using the room to do professional recording and mixing.
My wife and I were fortunate enough to have a custom home built for us in 2015 -2016. A music room was part of the plan from the beginning. With that in mind, we had the basement built accordingly. ( No window in the music room, 8'4 ceilings, in floor heating)
From there, I built a "room within a room" complete with an independent ceiling. All of the walls had a double layer of 5/8" drywall with green glue in between each layer. I also added a double layer of 5/8" drywall to the underside of the existing floor.
For a finished ceiling I built a "reverse ceiling"; the drywall is on top of the ceiling joists with insulation in the middle and burlap fabric as a finish material. (the idea is, that you end up with your whole ceiling being sonically treated.) That's the concept, read further to see how it turned out.
The finished room dimensions came to 10'8" x 18'4" with ceiling heights of 7'11 and 6'9". Size wise, I can fit a 4 piece easily, and could probably cram in a 5th or 6th. The big question will be how well the a/c keeps up in the summer with that many people.
Here's the room before I started, with some pics of the ceiling joists to show what I was up against