BeniRose
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Hey friends! I just bought a house and I move in a week, so I was hoping to get some advice for setting up the "studio room". It's fairly small, but should be usable. It's on the second floor of a Philadelphia row home. I really like the aesthetics (an exposed brick wall and hardwood floors) so I'm hoping to keep most of that. The thing I'm most concerned about is noise level as well as the sound going in to the microphones. I know this will aggravate everyone here, but tuning the room for mixing is the last thing I'm worried about. I'm looking for as minimal a solution as possibly, considering I'm short on cash from buying the house and fixing some of it up. I will mostly be using it for recording my own music, but I'd like it to be prepared if a friend's band stopped by.
Here's the floor plan:
You enter the room from the door on the right. The door on the left goes out to the deck. The picture isn't drawn the scale but the measurements should be pretty accurate.
Here's the view upon entering. You can see the wall to the right and part of the back wall is exposed brick. While I love this, I understand it will probably have a big effect on the sound of the room. If I can find a way to not cover it and shape the sound great. If I have to cover it up, I suppose I will, but the room is already pretty small, so even a few inches of drywall will probably make a difference.
This is the wall to the right upon entering. It has the exposed brick and has two windows in it.
This is from standing on the bed, turned around to face the door I just came in. The exposed brick wall is now on my left, and you can see that there is a bit of a protruded wall next to the door. This is where I was thinking of putting my desk, since I heard it's best to have the sound going long ways. Although if I can't fit the drums where I'm standing, I might have to put my desk where I'm standing and just heavily treat the wall behind me.
This is the wall to the left when you walk in the door. It's the largest wall in the room. We want to put a couch against this wall, but I'm not sure it's going to fit.
Another view from where I want to put my desk. Showing the large wall and the door to the deck.
Another view of the wall that protrudes out to the right of the entrance door (top right corner of floor plan).
Anyways, so that's it. I have a few ideas, but I'm interested to see what you guys have in mind in the way of sound-proofing, bass traps, etc. My wife and I bought this house with another couple, of which the husband is also a musician, and we all know the key to a man's happiness is his wife's happiness, so we don't want to drive our wives crazy with our noise.
I plan on running some other wires (follow up post to come for that) so that if I were to record a full band, I could put the amps in other rooms throughout the house and just record the drums in this room. I've had bad experiences in the past with just getting the room to sound decent enough to record, so that takes priority for me over getting the room tuned for mixing. Let me know what you guys think I should do with this room! Thanks!
Here's the floor plan:
You enter the room from the door on the right. The door on the left goes out to the deck. The picture isn't drawn the scale but the measurements should be pretty accurate.
Here's the view upon entering. You can see the wall to the right and part of the back wall is exposed brick. While I love this, I understand it will probably have a big effect on the sound of the room. If I can find a way to not cover it and shape the sound great. If I have to cover it up, I suppose I will, but the room is already pretty small, so even a few inches of drywall will probably make a difference.
This is the wall to the right upon entering. It has the exposed brick and has two windows in it.
This is from standing on the bed, turned around to face the door I just came in. The exposed brick wall is now on my left, and you can see that there is a bit of a protruded wall next to the door. This is where I was thinking of putting my desk, since I heard it's best to have the sound going long ways. Although if I can't fit the drums where I'm standing, I might have to put my desk where I'm standing and just heavily treat the wall behind me.
This is the wall to the left when you walk in the door. It's the largest wall in the room. We want to put a couch against this wall, but I'm not sure it's going to fit.
Another view from where I want to put my desk. Showing the large wall and the door to the deck.
Another view of the wall that protrudes out to the right of the entrance door (top right corner of floor plan).
Anyways, so that's it. I have a few ideas, but I'm interested to see what you guys have in mind in the way of sound-proofing, bass traps, etc. My wife and I bought this house with another couple, of which the husband is also a musician, and we all know the key to a man's happiness is his wife's happiness, so we don't want to drive our wives crazy with our noise.
I plan on running some other wires (follow up post to come for that) so that if I were to record a full band, I could put the amps in other rooms throughout the house and just record the drums in this room. I've had bad experiences in the past with just getting the room to sound decent enough to record, so that takes priority for me over getting the room tuned for mixing. Let me know what you guys think I should do with this room! Thanks!