#1912734 - 03/19/08 07:35 PM
building a recording studio, help please
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Jameson Taylor
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Okay so i read the faq and i'm planning on gutting my garage to the framing and building a recording studio from scratch.
Unfortunately the dimensions are kind of small. The recording room is only 10' wide, 12' long, and 7'11" tall. The control room is going to be on the other side of a wall with a window to see into the recording room. It's dimensions are 8' wide, 10' long, and 7'11" tall.
I was wondering what kind of treatment for the areas i should install. I know that bass traps in all the corners are basically a must. The help i need is what shape the bass traps should be, and how much more treatment i could manage with a 2000 dollar budget for materials.
from what i've read I'd like to build bass traps to cover the corners and where the corners meet the ceilings. I was wondering what kind of reflectors and and diffusers to get for the walls in between each of the corners.
also do i need to put bass traps along where the walls meet the floor, and along where the walls meet the ceilings? thanks for all the help, i'm really starting from scratch with this...building it for my brother who wants to produce his own music, but has no recording experience all musician i guess you could say. I'm trying to learn about all the sound production stuff to be his engineer plus it's kind of interesting to me.
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#1913164 - 03/20/08 11:22 AM
Re: building a recording studio, help please
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Ethan Winer
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Yes, most rooms have 12 corners, and the more corner surface you cover, and the larger the traps, the better. I'd say rooms like that are too small to benefit from diffusion. Have you already made the dividing wall? Personally, I prefer one larger room over two rooms each too small to sound really good. But if you already divided it, and prefer that, your only recourse is as much bass trapping as possible.
--Ethan
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#1913306 - 03/20/08 03:00 PM
Re: building a recording studio, help please
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Jameson Taylor
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thanks for the quick reply. to clarify, my garage at the moment is split in half, the other half being my fathers clock workshop. and although he doesn't use it much he said we can't eliminate it completely and end up with a very nicely sized recording studio at 20x24x8. the control room is really being added to our half of the garage, so the two rooms would be the shape of an upside down "L". so a questions from that, should we save the trouble and money on the control room and just move all that into our half? that would save us framing and building the CR and just have the equipment on one end of the recording room.
i'll have a diagram of what the setup would be like if we had the control room and how it could be without one later. thanks again, more questions to come, believe me. {edit}sorry i don't quite know how to scale images...{/edit}
Edited by Jameson Taylor (03/20/08 03:20 PM)
Edit Reason: added diagrams
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#1913600 - 03/21/08 08:34 AM
Re: building a recording studio, help please
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Ethan Winer
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In that case I'd make the larger room the main room where you'll mix and record, and optionally use the smaller room for a booth to use when you need to record two things at once.
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