Garage conversion

[LemonTree]

I'd like to convert my H 9' x B 12' x L 27' Garage into a studio. I've attatched a drawing of how I'd like it layed out, but untill I can actualy getting around to cleaning it out I can't mark out my room sizeson the floor to see if it looks big enough.

Does it look a bit small for a hobby/project studio?
I need the big swing doors in there to cut the sound going straight out the metal garage door on the front (East side). The idea it to be able to open the swing doors inside so I can store the drum kit in the iso booth when the car is parked in there. Obviously it comes out when recording (for now anyway).

Any thoughts or ideas would be much apreciated. Thanks,

Lemon

[charoo]

being a newbie I just wish you fro best.... cant dare for commenting nything.... must be some expert gonna jump

luv
charoo

[charoo]

by the way what type of insulation you are panning for?

luv
champ

[LemonTree]

I'll be trying to use the most cost effective materials I can find. I've spent the last week sifting through the posts here reading about keeping the noise in. I have neighbours on the north and east walls 20' and 40' away respectively, but the north wall is driectly onto a public walkway where my neighbours walk to get in their front gates, then I have my own house ajoining the south wall.

[charoo]

well lemon i gonna use pure wool as insulation, i wonder it works or not.... in Rajasthan and specially in Jaipu we get good thick woolen quilts, i think i gonna use them. What you think? What abt treating Low Mid and High Freqns', have you planned something for that?

luv
charoo

[Badger]

Details man...Where are the lava lamps!...And the jeep tires....

[Tukkis]

A few things to remember, sound is only afraid of mass. This means the best forms of insulation are brickwalls and fiberglass/rockwool in the walls. So eggcartons on the wall will do nothing to keep sound out or in.

Acoustic treatment on the other hand is stuff you put on the walls to stop reflections and the sound bouncing around. You can use stuff like carpet and curtains but they only absorb high frequncies. You need something like rigid fiberglass in panels on the walls to absorb the lows.

Check out this great site about construction:

http://www.saecollege.de/reference_material/index.html

Tukkis

[LemonTree]

some great onfo on that SAE site !