Building a home studio...help

[Hiwatt25]

My wife and I recently bought our first house which included a 250 sqare foot shop that I am in the process of converting to my studio. Can anyone point me in the direction of a site that has good information on home studio construction? Specifically, I'd like to learn how to build a wall that separates the control room from the live room and how best to soundproof my studio. I've got my digi set up in my back bedroom (with my wife's treadmill) and things are getting a little cramped. Any help would be appreciated. images/icons/tongue.gif

[Avid]

Here are some from the Studio Covers links site, linked from our Links We Like page:

http://www.studiocovers.com/articles15.htm

[soundsurfr]

There's a chapter in my book "Project Studio Blueprint" that covers control room wall construction in detail, but the book is out of print. You may be able to get a used copy from Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672302756/qid%3D1021391973/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F0%5F1/102-3983087 -3083368

In the meantime, if you want to discuss the construction by email, I can answer specific questions for you as they come up.

[gerax]

Not an easy question to answer images/icons/rolleyes.gif ; the best advice I can give you is get the most books on the subject you can, as well as some on acoustics and its sound-related applications: a good one could be "Sound Studio construction on a budget" by F. Alton Everts, which covers several studio situations and adrresses their needs; lots of others you can find on Amazon.com; My personal advice would be to get yourself a clear idea of what are you going to do in this studio: music recording? mixing and post work? Dialog recording, audio for video? the list goes on, and each one has different needs and solutions, so you can't bulid a be-all end-all studio; also if you don't have a large space it's better in my opinion to build a good sounding control room and a small iso booth (for vocals and less space -demanding instruments), rather than splitting your already small space in two and then get a mediocre sounding studio and a mediocre sounding control room; you can always go tracking your drums and loud instruments in a studio nearby and then bring the files back in your studio to overdub and mix. This may sound a little blunt, but I took this decision with my studio (which I make a living out of) and I'm happy with it; a good sounding room needs tuning in its acoustics to sound good and to be used for ambience recordings so...;as far as equipment goes you already have a 001 system (good start); the list of gear again depends of the kind of work you're going to do in this studio: if it's going to be your personal home studio to record and mix your music just get a good pair of mics (a good large diaphragm condenser and a good dynamic one )and a nice preamp and you can start recording (as you surely already know); for more pro level work a little more brainstorming is needed, maybe in this case you should post a little more on your ideas and we could give some feedback.

Best of luck and post back your results.

L.G. images/icons/smile.gif

[N-G-NEER]

You should seriously look at the Walter Storyk Design group site www.wsdg.com (http://www.wsdg.com) John storyk is a world class studio designer and has tons of information on his site. I have built several studios based on his concepts and designs and all have turned out great. I had him for a teacher at Fullsail and the man is very full of himself but he's the best.

[8string]

There's some really good info regarding absorbtion materials and building a "room-within-a-room" at:

www.soundproofing.org (http://www.soundproofing.org)
and
www.acoustics101.com (http://www.acoustics101.com)