mindwave_21
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Hi everyone! Been a while since I posted at HR, but I've been busy trying to come up with songs and whatnot... . Anyways, I finally convinced my parents to let me have a room they were using to store junk to build my home studio in. At first, I was thinking of just lining the room with carpet to soundproof it...but that doesn't seem very effective after reading a few posts from this furom. I need suggestions from posters here as to how I should approach this. Before I do this, let me assure you I will read SAE's home recording guide, so please don't leave me a one sentence reply telling me to go read it.
Ok, so let me tell you the criteria:
1. Most importantly, the room should be more aurally isolated from the rest of the house than it is now. To clarify, I'd rather sacrifice some sound quality to be able to record with the room (possibly after everyone goes to sleep if I get that midnight inspiration...for some reason you think you have good ideas when you're barely awake..hehe) and not disturb my family. Things I'm particularly worried about isolating are my voice (male voice singing at a reasonable volume) and possibly an acoustic or very quiet electric guitar. I'm not going to have any drum or bass players in there at night.
I think/hope this should be fairly easy to do considering the location of the room. I'm guessing that it's approximately 10-12 feet wide by 15-20 feet long with hardwood floors and...ugh...NOISY fluorescent lights. To the left of the room is our 2-car garage, so not so worried about that. To the right is the house's structure (i.e. the room closest to it is the downstairs bathroom which is about 10 feet away through that right wall). Directly above is a computer room and a currently unused guest bedroom (not particularly worried about that). The entrance to the room has two fairly light 2" thick wooden doors (very noisy...could be a sound leak problem). The biggest problem lies straight ahead...a big single-pane glass sliding door that takes up the entire wall; I don't want my neighbors complaining about my volume at night...I've had that before...
2. It must be "temporary" in the sense that I can't do any heavy duty construction such as taking out the glass door and replace it with a wall. I'd happily place something over the doors, but I don't think my parents would let me do any demolition...due financial and sanity concerns . I think the most permanent thing I could do is switch the light fixtures to incandescent or putting a halogen lamp in the room and just leaving it at that. I can't smash any walls or put anything in between walls, but I think I can "cover" the walls. Keep in mind that this is my parents' house and I'm a 3rd year college student. The expected lifespan of this studio is probably around 5 years (maybe longer, but I'm being realistic in the sense that I have to move out sooner or later), and I'd hate to leave a studio behind that I can't set up somewhere else.
Those are the 2 criteria for my situation. Any and all suggestions are welcome. BTW, I know very little about soundproofing materials and costs, so if you could give me a rough estimate on price, that would be great. I think I'd like to keep my budget under $1,000 for sound proofing material alone (preferably more like $500, but I think I can convince them to help me out a little). Thanks for all the help on this great forum.
Ok, so let me tell you the criteria:
1. Most importantly, the room should be more aurally isolated from the rest of the house than it is now. To clarify, I'd rather sacrifice some sound quality to be able to record with the room (possibly after everyone goes to sleep if I get that midnight inspiration...for some reason you think you have good ideas when you're barely awake..hehe) and not disturb my family. Things I'm particularly worried about isolating are my voice (male voice singing at a reasonable volume) and possibly an acoustic or very quiet electric guitar. I'm not going to have any drum or bass players in there at night.
I think/hope this should be fairly easy to do considering the location of the room. I'm guessing that it's approximately 10-12 feet wide by 15-20 feet long with hardwood floors and...ugh...NOISY fluorescent lights. To the left of the room is our 2-car garage, so not so worried about that. To the right is the house's structure (i.e. the room closest to it is the downstairs bathroom which is about 10 feet away through that right wall). Directly above is a computer room and a currently unused guest bedroom (not particularly worried about that). The entrance to the room has two fairly light 2" thick wooden doors (very noisy...could be a sound leak problem). The biggest problem lies straight ahead...a big single-pane glass sliding door that takes up the entire wall; I don't want my neighbors complaining about my volume at night...I've had that before...
2. It must be "temporary" in the sense that I can't do any heavy duty construction such as taking out the glass door and replace it with a wall. I'd happily place something over the doors, but I don't think my parents would let me do any demolition...due financial and sanity concerns . I think the most permanent thing I could do is switch the light fixtures to incandescent or putting a halogen lamp in the room and just leaving it at that. I can't smash any walls or put anything in between walls, but I think I can "cover" the walls. Keep in mind that this is my parents' house and I'm a 3rd year college student. The expected lifespan of this studio is probably around 5 years (maybe longer, but I'm being realistic in the sense that I have to move out sooner or later), and I'd hate to leave a studio behind that I can't set up somewhere else.
Those are the 2 criteria for my situation. Any and all suggestions are welcome. BTW, I know very little about soundproofing materials and costs, so if you could give me a rough estimate on price, that would be great. I think I'd like to keep my budget under $1,000 for sound proofing material alone (preferably more like $500, but I think I can convince them to help me out a little). Thanks for all the help on this great forum.