Studio in my garage? (Rooms are already partially built)

[sjaguar13]

A couple years ago, my brother and I got some drums. We built a sound proof room in our garage. It's not totally sound proof, but when someone plays the drums inside, you have to walk up really close to hear them. Next to that, we were going to build a bathroom, so we didn't have to keep on going inside. We never finished the bathroom. All it is, is the studs. The drum room has dry wall and everything up, but since then, we used it as a closet. I'm getting sick of on location recording. Thursday, we got to record this demo for a band who's trying to get a really good gig. We get to the guy's house and everything is falling apart. As I carry in my stuff, on person says, "Watch out for the beer bottles and dead cats." I thought about turning the rooms in my garage into a studio, so they can just come to me.

It's a 6 car garage (3 cars long, two deep). In the back left corner is the "bathroom". It's 8' long, 7' wide, 8' high. Next to that is the drum room. It's 11' long, 7' wide, and 8' high.

I thought about putting the control room in the corner "bathroom", and using the drum room as either the droom room, or a vocal room. I thought about using the rest of the garage as the live room. You're challenge (actually, my challenge) if you choose to accept it, I need to make the rooms sound better without it costing a lot, but since I'm still at home with my parents, I need something that isn't permanent. I would like something that when the band comes over, I can move out my cars maybe throw down some carpet or something and record, then clean it back up and put the cars back inside.

Also, here's another possibility, drums at the far end of the garage, guitars closer to the control room, and vocals in the drum room, if the band wants to do everything together. How about, drums in drum room, guitars in garage, and I build a ply wood/foam vocal booth? I don't really know.

Anyone got some suggestions?

[KingstonRock]

I'd make the large drum space a drum/live room, the bathroom and isolation booth and the other large space the control room

bookmark this site...

SAE Website

this, just with a bathroom vocal booth somewhere should work for you... (from the studio plans section of the above site)

[sjaguar13]

I'm a little confused. What room should I make what?

Here's what my garage looks like now:

[VSpaceBoy]

Are you wanting to turn the space into nothing but studio, or does it need to be a garage? I mean are you wanting to build walls, add doors, sound treat and make it perminant??
Or are you looking for the best "let people come over and use it" set up.

SpaceBoy

[sjaguar13]

The rooms that are build are full with insulation and they're permanent, but I still need it to be a garage. I would like it if I didn't have to build anything else. I still park my cars in there. I want it so people could play where my car is normally parked and it wouldn't sound too horrible. We've mostly been recording in basements. I doubt the garage would sound worse.

[VSpaceBoy]

I'm sorry, I missed that part in your first post.

So sound proofing is not needed. If there are no neighbors and you don't have to "keep it down" then I would open all the garage doors and aim the guitar amps towards the openings. Use some abosoption materials behind and beside them. Otherwise make some temporary walls or gobos to use to handle all the reflection.

SpaceBoy