Studio Construction Pics

[mshilarious]

Seven months after moving, I've finally gotten to some real studio construction. Here are some rack construction pics. I built my rack into an existing built-in bookshelf/entertainment center/wet bar

Pic #1: shelf above space for TV removed

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Pic #2: new divider & shelf added

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Pic #3: rack rails in

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Pic #4: rack gear installed. It's still only about 1/2 wired, but this gets me 2 mic inputs and 2.1 monitoring (sitting on the countertop )

It still needs filling, finished, and a glass door salvaged from an old home stereo tower case cut to size and installed. I'll try to get the glass door in this week

Stage 2, I'm gonna build a few framed wall-mount absorbers, and stuff some 4" rigid fiberglass over the bookshelves for some temporary treatment.

Stage 3 construction involves tearing the drywall off the ceiling & walls, installing mic cable in the walls, mounting newly built monitors in the walls, rebuilding soundproof walls & ceiling, building a floating cloud, and adding 5.1 surround A little bit harder, I think

[Mindcore]

Very nice!

Books, how do they affect acoustics?

[SonicClang]

Books are actually reall good for acoustics. They act as really good diffusors because each one in a shelf tends to be a different height, depth, and thickness. Book shelves are actually recommended for that quite often if you've got no other means to diffuse sound.

[mshilarious]

Originally Posted by SonicClang

Books are actually reall good for acoustics. They act as really good diffusors because each one in a shelf tends to be a different height, depth, and thickness. Book shelves are actually recommended for that quite often if you've got no other means to diffuse sound.

Right now I face the bookshelves, so they probably have little effect. In the final layout I will be facing away from the shelves, towards the other side of room. Thus the shelves will be on the back wall, where diffusion might be helpful. At least that's the plan

[Dogman]

Cool pics man....
I'd show my "Studio", but none of y'all could handle it. You'd cream your shorts with jealousy....

[SonicClang]

I'm sensing sarcasm...

[Tonio]

Hey nice handy work there MS.
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[timboZ]

Originally Posted by Dogman

Cool pics man....
I'd show my "Studio", but none of y'all could handle it. You'd cream your shorts with jealousy....

Dogmans studio.




Nice rack MS.............

[Dogman]

Originally Posted by timboZ

Dogmans studio.




Nice rack MS.............

Hey, I cleaned it up special just for you TimboZ....

[Gorty]

Originally Posted by timboZ

Dogmans studio.




Nice rack MS.............

LOL...............

[L'espion Noir]

Originally Posted by timboZ

Dogmans studio.

How is the accoustic?

[Track Rat]

Originally Posted by L'espion Noir

How is the accoustic?

Uncanny......

[mshilarious]

I'm still only halfway through Stage 3, specifically the part about tearing off the drywall

[Seeker of Rock]

Awesome rack. Make sure to not totally remove the "wet bar" portion of it. Books, shmooks, you just need some nice, round reflective bottles and you're set.

[mshilarious]

Originally Posted by Seeker of Rock

Awesome rack. Make sure to not totally remove the "wet bar" portion of it.

That's a given, as it services the aquarium, which is essential as fish are my studio mascots

[andycerrone]

Originally Posted by mshilarious

Pic #4: rack gear installed. It's still only about 1/2 wired, but this gets me 2 mic inputs and 2.1 monitoring (sitting on the countertop )

It still needs filling, finished, and a glass door salvaged from an old home stereo tower case cut to size and installed. I'll try to get the glass door in this week

Stage 2, I'm gonna build a few framed wall-mount absorbers, and stuff some 4" rigid fiberglass over the bookshelves for some temporary treatment.

Stage 3 construction involves tearing the drywall off the ceiling & walls, installing mic cable in the walls, mounting newly built monitors in the walls, rebuilding soundproof walls & ceiling, building a floating cloud, and adding 5.1 surround A little bit harder, I think

Dude, that's freaking awesome. I'm building a rack, but it's a wee bit smaller. I'm getting the pieces cut tomorrow (I got the wood and put down all the lines for it) and I'll screw it together next friday. I'll put some pictures up then.

[andycerrone]

Originally Posted by Track Rat

Uncanny......

ahahahaha...

[mshilarious]

OK, after a few more months, it's time for an update. I finally brought in the pros, Sam Moore and his crew from Soundside Construction of Manteo, NC, and they have totally been kicking ass. In addition to the studio, they are expanding two bedrooms and adding a bath, and various sundry other projects. After three weeks, we are about a week from closein inspection on all of it.

First pic is the front wall. All the drywall in the studio was torn off, except behind the wet bar (not in this picture) and the left wall. I am dealing with decoupling those walls from the other side, due to shear wall construction here in hurricaneland. Also it would have been traumatic and expensive to demolish & rebuild the wet bar/rack

OK, so you can see the slanty walls with boxes to soffit mount the mains, also a little slanted soffit to hide audio wiring (some of which you can see) and hold the center channel over the window. The window has had the factory storm window added and caulked tight.

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By the way, those cans will be removed and all lighting will be surface mount, or mounted in a floating cloud yet to come. I'm trying to seal up that ceiling good, all walls (except mentioned above) will be finished with 2 layers of drywall hung on RC.

Here's the back wall, with the rack shown in the earlier pics. They have built some more slanty soffits, mainly to aim the rear surrounds at my head. The door will be replaced with a solid-core unit. This corner worries me most, because the heat pump compressors are right outside that door Further work on the exterior wall may be required

I'm very pleased with the monitoring layout, I'll end up with all monitors at the specified angle for surround, and within 6" of equidistant from the mix position. We had a fun morning last week where I broke out a calc and applied some trig so the angles were good. Then when they were done, we dropped lines back to the mix position, they were worried when it was like 1" off, but I was like, dudes, my head is 12", don't sweat it! Real carpenters are amazing

Tomorrow the HVAC guys come to quiet down the furnace in the room, and baffle the intake. Also I get a humidifier!

[Seeker of Rock]

Originally Posted by mshilarious

Then when they were done, we dropped lines back to the mix position, they were worried when it was like 1" off, but I was like, dudes, my head is 12", don't sweat it! Real carpenters are amazing

Amen. It is such a joy to watch artisans skilled in their trade. Hopefully(as the McHouses become ever popular), never a lost art.

Awesome, Jon. So is that the same room where my MSH mics were made?

[mshilarious]

Originally Posted by Seeker of Rock

Awesome, Jon. So is that the same room where my MSH mics were made?

No, they were tested and packed there though.

Here is where they are assembled:

http://www.homerecording.com/bbs/att...chmentid=28007

[boingoman]

Originally Posted by SonicClang

Books are actually reall good for acoustics. They act as really good diffusors because each one in a shelf tends to be a different height, depth, and thickness. Book shelves are actually recommended for that quite often if you've got no other means to diffuse sound.

Do a search for "bookshelf" in this forum and see if you feel the same way after.