Home recording studio

BradyMHP

Hello
I am looking to build a home recording studio.
I have 2 diffrent ideas for it.
1 it will be built from concrete blocks or
2 it will be built from a log cabin
if anybody has ever built one i would love to hear some feedback

BryanF

you need to build 'a room within a room' thats the simplist and cheapest way to get the best of db rating levels. that means using lots of insulation preferable not poly based and then leave a gap of a few inchs followed by new stud frame and sound performance plasterboard. the professional doors come with frame and cost about a grand and you should really be looking at a silent fan system, to many of these spaces leave out ventilation!
you could build from either block of timber. my preference would be for timber,
but do also consider what you will use this space for, ie drums generate a lot of vibration etc.
and whether you need to build a separate space for any future storage/change of use that may encroach on your studio space as your families needs change

mfceiling

BryanF wrote: »

you need to build 'a room within a room' thats the simplist and cheapest way to get the best of db rating levels. that means using lots of insulation preferable not poly based and then leave a gap of a few inchs followed by new stud frame and sound performance plasterboard. the professional doors come with frame and cost about a grand and you should really be looking at a silent fan system, to many of these spaces leave out ventilation!
you could build from either block of timber. my preference would be for timber,
but do also consider what you will use this space for, ie drums generate a lot of vibration etc.
and whether you need to build a separate space for any future storage/change of use that may encroach on your studio space as your families needs change

Remember doing one years ago like that.
The corners could not be 90 degrees - something to do with the way sound is distributed - it must "bounce" easily from a square corner.
We had to build an external room in 70mm metal stud with a double layer of soundblock board on each side - with a corridor leading into it, then another room inside that.
It meant you had to open the 1st door, walk down the corridor and open the door to the 1st room then walk to the 2nd room and open that door.
Hope you can make sense of it!!

No6

It all depends on the level of recording you intend to do, if you want a full state of the art studio go with a sound proofed room within a room type and a control room, of you are just recording to a computer and sound card go with what you can afford, make a small isolation booth with a timber stud partition, plasterboard and rock wool insulation for the mikes, guitar keys etc can be di'ed and played in the man control room so don't really need anything unless you are miking an amp in which case you can stick it in the booth.

music producer

Whatever you do, don't build a rectangular room unless you plan to alter some of the walls. Parallel walls simply don't work well for a recording studio. I suppose if the walls were actual logs, it might disperse the sound pretty well, but you'll save a lot of headache with the non-parallel approach. This applies to the ceiling as well...it's helpful if one end is higher than the other; conventional wisdom puts you facing the shortest wall.