Garage Recording

[Cadillac Music]

Hey, I'm going to setup my studio in my Garage, currently moving from my bedroom. Which really didn't have much acoustics or anything to help out my sound. What could I possibly add to my Garage to help out my sound?

The house I'm living in Im renting. So I'm not able to tear down anything. So what is the BEST I could do to help out my sound? Not just in the recording mode, but also playback wise. Want to make sure I am hearing what I playback right.

[daav]

What is your biggest concern, aoustincs, or keeping as much sound int he garage as possible to avoid angering the neigborhood?

What do you play/record? Full electric band, or otherwise.

check out threads in this forum on 703 or similiar acopustic treatments.

Really generally, with a garage space, i would fill the open spaces between studs with 4 inches of rigid fiberglass (try to put some air gap between the fiberglass and the wall) and hang clouds of the stuff from the roof over mixing stations and a drumset area if you have it. This will help absorb a lot (never all) of the sound and kill some bad refections. Then stack rolls of fluffy fiberglass in the corners or use 4 inch panels of 703 across the corner (so the corner and the fiberglass form a triangle. You can try your best to treat the door as well, if you are never going to open ot for a car, you could cover it with fiberglass panels as well.

Then build some diffusion panels, easiest is to take 1/4 inch plywood and mount it so it is bent into a gentle arc (I would use 2-3 4x8 sheets of plywood and cut them into, say, 4 1x8 foot strips each) them take and place these outside the studs and fiberglass at some good spaces to create some good reflections.

The floor is probabaly cement, leave that as is and use some area rugs and experiment with them on or off to see what complements your recordings.

Good luck!
Dave

[Cadillac Music]

cool, thanks for the replying. Since I dont know much about rigid fiberglass and 703, how much would it cost to build one of those things.

[daav]

The rigid fiberglas noise absorption route is generally considered to be a pretty cheap alternative to the commercial stuff, and lately there have been plentyl of commerical operations that are marketing what are essentially the same panels as most of us have been making based on info in these threads.



Every other post inteh studio building has info on this stuff, look around there is jsut a ton of good stuff here.