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How large is the slab you have to work with? I would build to the extents of the slab, and worry about the interior configuration after your outside envelope is finished. How close/open minded/friendly are your neighbors? If they are very close (<20') it will be really tough for you to play with...

Hey Arc, Check out the acoustic ceiling tiles, they are made of rigid fiberglass insulation. You can peel off the vinyl that is on the ceiling side of them, stack them up and put them in a wood frame. I put a little hot glue in between each tile, and I secured them in teh wooden frame by just...

portable AC ducted outside

nice job, good looking, and obviously built with economy in mind (I mean that as a compliment!). +100 on the elbow rest. bad form though, spam on your first post, imho. Other than that, welcome. Cheers C>

Yes, another vote for the one-room-project studio. The largest project studio I helped build, was 30' X 30'. It was too small to include separate rooms. Being able to grab and adjust whatever you need to without going through doors is huge. skip the walls, put the money and effort into acoustic...

Please rethink adding your wall (and the window). As Rick is saying, isolation is tough; it's unlikely that will you be able to hear very well in the separated room; since you have not provided dimensions we have no way of knowing, but I suspect both of your rooms will be tiny, hard to work in...

I'd pay US $600 - $800 for a 200b 24 X 4 X 2 depending on the condition, how many power supplies, did it come with the case, what was the provenance, etc. I paid around $600 for this three years ago, with a case, and I knew where it was coming from (guy was an actual sound engineer, and board...

I like it a lot - my professional sound buddy recommended it to me. It's pretty quiet, and you can pull channel strips individually if you need to repair them. There are also quite a few of them floating around, so parts are still accessible. I have had very good luck with it - <fingers crossed>...

It sounds good. I had a fellow over for some singer songwriter stuff and we tracked a little bit. I am greatly encouraged. Once again, room treatment makes a huge difference, especially in these tiny spaces I ham using. Once I get something totally recorded in here I will post it for critique...

Taa... Daa... Finally pretty much finished. Now for the vintage gear porn - And the closer - Christ, it's been over three years since I had last set this stuff up - it took me almost two weeks to figure out how to get it all working again. pro-tip #1 - if you plug a mono 1/4" plug into the...

I bow to jhbrandts superior expertise, experience and comments, but imho you have 24 sq ft of treatment @ 4" thick in that room and that is nowhere near enough to rid rid of reverb, let alone bass trapping. I'm not surprised that there is still a lot of verb in there. My experience thus far -...

How much treatment do you have in there? in sq ft please C>

Can you take the foam back? Seriously, if you can return the foam and build yourself some 703 or roxsul panels you'll be way ahead in the game. Barring that, find a way to temporarily attach them and see what works best - acoustic treatment is not intuitive, and you may have to experiment to...

It's time to see if anything died during the packing/storage/unpacking. All this gear was running for 3 1/2 years straight, so I was kind of worried about what would happen after it sat in a warehouse for 3 months. Turns out not too much. My cello popped a couple of strings loose (but it does...

Ok, what a pain in the ass the AC turned out to be. I got good results but it took longer than I anticipated, like most things related to studios/music. I had an opening a little larger than my head (like, 1/4" larger), 8' feet off the ground to work on the duct from the inside. Outside was a...

Imho rock wool would be an unsatisfactory material for use in automotive applications. The frangibility of the material does not lend itself to use in environments where there is a great deal of vibration, and the size constraints involved (Rock Wool takes a substantial amount of volume to have...

Imho rock wool would be an unsatisfactory material for use in automotive applications. The frangibility of the material does not lend itself to use in environments where there is a great deal of vibration, and the size constraints involved (Rock Wool takes a substantial amount of volume to have...

I am pretty sure shiplap is overlapping horizontal boards. Like you see on old wooden siding or... ships. :) A lot of older houses had horizontal sheathing (or even diagonal), but shiplap is usually the outside (weather facing) surface - the over lapping boards provide a drip edge to wick water...

As long as you cover it with fabric, and are not roughhousing it (brushing by it all the time, hitting it with a stick etc) it will be fine. The problem comes if you are abrading it and the small particles are inhaled and get on your skin. If it is out of the way, and covered with fabric, then...

Ok, it's been busy the last week at Casa de Aromaticsquid. I haven't mentioned it, but let's discuss safety. Always read the instructions for any material or tool you are going to use, and always try to think of the possible consequences of your actions. You've only got one set of ears and eyes...