flame this ignorant newb and his futile aspirations

[stalemayte]

alright. heres your chance. but seriously I would like some advice. I've got this one room to work with as a studio. this is the gear I have at my disposal: my pc , event tr-5's as monitors, a delta 1010 as conversion, m-audio dmp3 as preamp, and studio concepts vtb1 as pre amp.

click here to see the worst animated representation of a room you have ever seen

I'm recording mainly acoustic drums, acoustic and electric guitars, electric basses and vocals, and I plan on recording bands in exchange for the paper currency of america, when I get it done, what it is to get done I'm not sure at this moment.

What I am asking of the reader is this, if YOU had this room to turn into a studio,and you already had the gear I had, and you had a budget somewhere between $1500 and $2000, and you were planning on using it as a studio to record yourself, and crappy local bands , what would you do?

I would like advice about placement of monitors/mixing station, acoustic treatment, demolition, construction, and whatever else would be done to turn a room into a decent home studio.

btw, the floor is carpeted, the 14 ft. wall is pretty damn thick there is concrete in there somewhere, the false tile/metal support ceiling is approx 7 ft. tall, and the real ceiling, i.e. underside of the kitchen floor, is approx 9 feet. (thats the horizontally laid wood, the vertically laid support wood is closer to the ground obviously) .

thanks if you help

 

[Innovations]

Is this a basement room? Where are the windows? How much noise bleed gets from the rest of the neighborhood to this room and how important is it that what is heard in this room not get out to the neighbors.

 

[stalemayte]

yes.

There are no windows.


I would say very little, I have no actually numbers yet.

not the highest priority. or the second highest. or third. but it is somewhat important. The house is not very close to the neighbor's houses.

 

[guitarboi89]

put the pc in the cupboard if possible.... there noisier than you think!

 

[FALKEN]

I would buy a microphone or two. you can't record much of what you want without those. how's that?

 

[Ethan Winer]

> I would like advice about placement of monitors/mixing station, acoustic treatment, demolition, construction, and whatever else would be done to turn a room into a decent home studio. <

I see nothing to demolish or construct, unless you have the option of removing walls to make the room larger and less square. So your main concerns are monitor and listener placement, and acoustic treatment, yes?

The drawing below is from my article How to set up a room:

You can read all about acoustic treatment elsewhere on that site, and there's a lot of DIY advice in my Acoustics FAQ I'm sure you'll find useful.

--Ethan