My fiancee is a voice over artist who works from home. Right now, she has some accoustic triangle foam on a couple walls in the spare bedroom. Her setup is just fine for what she does; sound quality doesn't have to be super-ultra-mega great or anything. The problem we have sometimes is that we live about two miles from a small airport that has an aviation school, so little airplanes occasionally buzz by our house about 100 feet up, as well as the occasional helicopter ambulance (you can't hear them loudly in the basement, but it's loud upstairs) It's not a huge pain in the butt, but it does keep her from working for a minute or two at a time... and she is busy! We are also starting a family soon and general house noise is about to increase. I'm looking to build her a booth over the summer, so I have a couple questions:
How realistic is it for a DIY job to block out environmental noise like airplanes and weed wackers and lawn mowers? And what about kids? Can I build a home booth for ~$2,500 that will allow my then-wife to record while a baby cries in the house? She also edits as she records, so it has to be big enough for a standing desk and tall chair, with room to move the chair out of the way. I was thinking a 4'x2' shelf for a desk, which means I'm probably looking at a 4'x6' booth at a minimum I'm thinking.
I'm going to build something that we can disassemble and move when we buy a bigger house in a couple years. I have some construction and design experience, as well as a professional Autocad and Revit licence. Best placement looks like somewhere in the basement... some is finished immediately at the bottom of the stairs, and the unfinished part is in the mechanical space with the furnace and overhead exposed ductwork and gas lines. I would much rather put it in the unfinished part, but I don't know if the furnace would be too loud that close or how much more it would cost to insulate from THAT noise.
I'm just looking for some guidance and what kind of reasonable expectations I can have within that budget.
How realistic is it for a DIY job to block out environmental noise like airplanes and weed wackers and lawn mowers? And what about kids? Can I build a home booth for ~$2,500 that will allow my then-wife to record while a baby cries in the house? She also edits as she records, so it has to be big enough for a standing desk and tall chair, with room to move the chair out of the way. I was thinking a 4'x2' shelf for a desk, which means I'm probably looking at a 4'x6' booth at a minimum I'm thinking.
I'm going to build something that we can disassemble and move when we buy a bigger house in a couple years. I have some construction and design experience, as well as a professional Autocad and Revit licence. Best placement looks like somewhere in the basement... some is finished immediately at the bottom of the stairs, and the unfinished part is in the mechanical space with the furnace and overhead exposed ductwork and gas lines. I would much rather put it in the unfinished part, but I don't know if the furnace would be too loud that close or how much more it would cost to insulate from THAT noise.
I'm just looking for some guidance and what kind of reasonable expectations I can have within that budget.