wood floors

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:13 pm

greetings...

I have built a home studio consisting of two approximately 8x8 rooms in my garage. this is all the room I could steal! The ceiling in the control room is about 6'6", the ceiling in the record room is about 7'6". The walls consist of painted sheetrock.
My question is can I use wood flooring, or would this be too bright and reflective. I have seen pictures of wood floors, but I think the room dimensions were bigger. Any ideas on this?

Thanks in advance.

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:37 pm

you could use wood floors if your cieling is either diffusive or absorbant. I really would reconisder making the rooms 8x8 square it will end up sounding kinda boxy. Rectangular would better.(5x8/6x8 or something)

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:53 pm

Unfortunately....I am long past the stage of changing that. They aren't exactly square...They are off by about 6 inches in one direction or the other....Also, and this wasn't by design, the walls aren't square either. Every wall is an inch or two longer or shorter than its parallel brother. Maybe that will help a bit..Thanks for the response...I really would like to do wood.

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:33 am

go with the wood floors and put panels on the ceiling. You can always throw down a rug if the room still is to bright.

Glenn

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:22 am

Put 703 Rigid Fiberglass in the corners. This help with the lower abosorbtion.
Realtraps makes some nice products, or try
http://www.atsacoustics.com/item--Owens-Corning-703-Case-of-6--1004.html

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 2:33 pm

TequilaTom wrote:

greetings...

I have built a home studio consisting of two approximately 8x8 rooms in my garage. this is all the room I could steal! The ceiling in the control room is about 6'6", the ceiling in the record room is about 7'6". The walls consist of painted sheetrock.

Tom,
I love your determination! Powerful in the face of certain defeat. Your question about wooden floors is premature. Save yer money because what you have, two square little rooms, will neither accommodate sound nor those that desire to make more of it.

It is never too late for anything in any facet of your life so begin today to remove the wall used to create the little square rooms.

Then you will have an 8' X 16' rectangle correct? Use that, live in it, learn to love it. And then research your next steps about what you are trying to achieve and do not submit to those around you that something cannot be changed when change is the only way to rectify the incorrect building procedures used in the beginning.

Brightness of audio in your current setup will be the least of your issues.

You simply cannot come from the ground up with poor design and expect it to get better as if by magic just because you want it to. It will not.

Brien

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:09 am

generally speaking i have to side with Space on this - the two really small rooms, being almost square, will be difficult to get a decent sound out of them... that said, what type of music are you performing/recording? if you're only doing some acoustic instruments then you might be better off with the larger room. if you need a drum booth for isolation, then maybe you need the two rooms but again, you're still likely to get better performance from a single open space. unless you're primarily doing voice overs and need an isobooth, the acoustics in two smalls rooms will suffer comared to the using the entire space.

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:30 pm

Thanks for all of your input. Once again, there is no one answer to any given question. I realize the lack of space I have to work with limits me in many ways.

Thanks again,

Tom

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