Basement Studio

Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:56 pm

AumStudioBrian wrote:

I would like to get into the acoustic treatment a bit more... I too am relocating my studio into a basement type of room. It'l be broken up into 2 rooms (control room and live tracking room).

The ceilings are low (prob about 6') and as of now, it is completely cement all around. I have a complete Auralex kit for my control room, but I have yet to figure out what exactly I'm going to do to the tracking room.

Does anyone have some basic recomendations on a tight budget (ie: simply using carpet, should I use hardwood flooring, etc etc)

John L Sayers forum. Bar none, the best forum (by far) there is regarding both the field of sound control/acoustics and also studio construction techniques. You have any questions... ask there.

They are however in a whole other league. Perhaps far too obsessive-compulsive for the average person to deal with. If you ask one question.... they'll ask you 100 questions in return.... but if you bear with the hazing.... they'll give you great advice.

Only comment I would have is to make the control room 10 - 20 percent bigger than you think you need it, even if that means making the studio/live rooms smaller (unless you plan on having a lot of bands in your studio).

Hardwood floors are preferable in my opinion, albeit pricey. Carpet is perfectly acceptable for a home studio. However, I'd stick with the commercial type carpeting, as opposed to longer fiber traditional house carpeting.

Carpeting has the advantage that you can always take it up if you decide that you would rather have a wood floor instead. With hardwood, your making a big investment at $6 - $8 per square foot (for real wood, not the cheap laminate (pergo) shit... which always feels and looks like pergo no matter how hard the manufacturers try to make their fake floors simulate real hardwood).

You may find that you had wished you had put some nice patterned commercial carpet down instead of the wood. I have known several people who ran home studios that regretted putting wood floors down. It is a trade-off between the "wow" factor which impresses guests or clients with nice wood floors.... versus having a certain degree of comfort in your home studio (carpet).

Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 12:16 pm

I use my basement studio for roughly the same stuff. i also have a catalina kit down there too. i used the audioblock for my sound transmission issues and some audiofoam absorption.. they seemed to work for me. here's the linkhttp://www.studiosoundcontrol.com/

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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 4:28 pm

If you're not tracking drums, guitar, bass and vocals all together consider one of earthworks drum mic kits. they're a little pricy, but the mics can be used for more than just drums. They sound amazing, very 3-dimensional you'll love them on accoustic and electric guitar... Just thought I'd throw it out there.

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