My Little Project... Thoughts ?
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My Little Project... Thoughts ?
Hi all and great Forum John,
I have an interesting space that I have been slowly manipulating. It is a rental space and I am on basically NO budget, but seem to make a few things happen by scraping and borrowing.
This space was converted into a garage at some point and has a sloped concrete floor with a small drain at the low point. I have done some temporary fixes to things like... of course the 12' garage door, and hung some materials to cut flutters. I put in a drum riser. The building is brick and the interior walls are plaster (in rough shape, but not too concerned about asthetics for the moment). The ceiling is dropped plaster about three feet below the roof.. open to a lofted area at the short end of the builing above "iso room"(see diagram).
This is mostly one big open room right now, in which I built a "stage" platform 20 x 16 that is partitioned from the large room with nice office dividers and some large wooden blinds. This was done for three reasons. 1. Level working surface for "control room" 2. Acoustic environment for "control room" 3. Room feel... not just sitting in a garage. NOT for isolation obviously. This has been working fairly well thus far, but there are of course problems working this way.
I am now considering making a room out of my platform control room. I will again be doing the work on low budget. I have some real nice double pane sliding glass doors that I wood like to turn into a control room window.. they were donated. I am thinking of just building three walls around the platform then treating the interior.. oh, and a door I guess.
Cheap, Effective, Decent, any ideas... a good plan can save me much pain. Feel free with ANY ideas.
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Jeff
I have an interesting space that I have been slowly manipulating. It is a rental space and I am on basically NO budget, but seem to make a few things happen by scraping and borrowing.
This space was converted into a garage at some point and has a sloped concrete floor with a small drain at the low point. I have done some temporary fixes to things like... of course the 12' garage door, and hung some materials to cut flutters. I put in a drum riser. The building is brick and the interior walls are plaster (in rough shape, but not too concerned about asthetics for the moment). The ceiling is dropped plaster about three feet below the roof.. open to a lofted area at the short end of the builing above "iso room"(see diagram).
This is mostly one big open room right now, in which I built a "stage" platform 20 x 16 that is partitioned from the large room with nice office dividers and some large wooden blinds. This was done for three reasons. 1. Level working surface for "control room" 2. Acoustic environment for "control room" 3. Room feel... not just sitting in a garage. NOT for isolation obviously. This has been working fairly well thus far, but there are of course problems working this way.
I am now considering making a room out of my platform control room. I will again be doing the work on low budget. I have some real nice double pane sliding glass doors that I wood like to turn into a control room window.. they were donated. I am thinking of just building three walls around the platform then treating the interior.. oh, and a door I guess.
Cheap, Effective, Decent, any ideas... a good plan can save me much pain. Feel free with ANY ideas.
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Jeff
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jeff - I assume you are looking at facing your work area towards the drum riser area so the doors will be at the bottom of the drawing.
I'd make some free standing panels so you can build an angular shape around you gear...this will stop standing waves etc. with it open at the rear. I'd treat the rear wall with heavy insulation
sortta like this.
I'd make some free standing panels so you can build an angular shape around you gear...this will stop standing waves etc. with it open at the rear. I'd treat the rear wall with heavy insulation
sortta like this.
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Regarding the floor. As I have stated this is a low budget project .. time and money are short. Though the floor/platform is far from perfect, I do not wish to move or redo it. I was considering stiffening the floor with an additional layer of 3/4" plywood. Also, the gap to the current existing wall.. once the rest of the walls are up and this functions acoustically as a room. Do you see any advantage to leaving the gap and insulating under the floor ?... Bass Trapping ?
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