Another Basement Studio

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sixfootape

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Hi Everyone,
I would like to say thanks for all the advice I've already received from this great site and now I have become in need of some more detailed advice so to speak. I've decided to take the plunge and do a studio in my basement. I have a dry 11.5'x22.5' area to deal with. I'd like to make one "floating room" for drums and other tracking and a control room. Obviously the isolation between the drums and the control room is a must but the control room doesn't have to be absolutely silent outside so would a floating floor be nessecary??? I've checked out the SAE site and downloaded a bunch of info on the construction side of things but what do you think about a carpeted concrete floor in the control room and how far should I take the room in a room for the control room? Three of the four walls are concrete. Also, I wanted to put sliding glass doors between the 2 rooms good idea??? Thanks in advance....
Pete
 
SFA,

Welcome to the forums:) .

So much of what you achieve will be dependant on your available budget.

I would imagine floating the tracking room in preference of the control room would be the way to go if you are too short of funds. Sliding glass doors are fine, just use two sets out of parallel.........one in the tracking room frame, the other in the control room frame.

Did you see John Sayer's single garage studio design amongst that SAE stuff..........if so, that should be a good guide to follow.



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yes the garage studio plan on Jons site is exactly what I'm aiming for. The omission of the floating floor in the control room is not for lack of cashflow... more a sonic concern ie: will the sound travel through the cement foundation , causing issues of resonance??? Either way, I'm getting very excited about this project and I appreciate all the help I can get! Thanks again....
Pete
 
sixfootape, my basement space is almost the same as yours, it started as 14'X30'. I framed the walls out from the existing walls and and hung the ceiling rafters from those so I ended up with a room within a room 12'X29'. I then built a double framed wall creating a 10'X12' controll room and a 12'X16' tracking room and used two doors, opening oposite of each other for access between the two rooms. It's all on a concrete slab floor and I track LOUD bands all the time and while it isn't totally sound proof, I've never found it to be a problem as far as transmission through the floor. If a drummer or a guitar is in the tracking side going at 11 you can hear it in the controll room but it is GREATLY reduced in volume. If I have the singer in there with me doing a scratch vocal at the same time, there's next to no leakage into the mic.
 
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