How can I turn this Guest House to a DV Video Audio Editing Room?

[twelves]

What l have is a house with a separate mini house that has 3 separate rooms. l could use one of the rooms as a separate 5.1 audio editing room. The trick is I cant spend much more then refurbishing a regular room. It has old school room acoustic ceiling tiles that I could paint. Cement floor that l will carpet. and Wood walls that all are very ugly. I will make a wall foam and bass trap. All I hope I can make my self. acoustic Foam from the States...

lm convinced l don't need a separate control room, l am only editing mini DV video and some midi, synth and acoustic guitars that have direct inputs and not microphone levels. Later I could build a microphone booth, l do have condenser microphones for voice only. I have near field studio monitors. and 13k of home studio gear and toys.

The building has zero insulation
and is in the high lands and averages 70 degrees year round. It has a tin roof that will not be changed and no road traffic, just the occasional jet over head. I don't see the need to sound proof the room because it's very isolated with no neighbors.

I have included some drawings and a photo. I would be grateful if any one has any advice.

The main thing I want to know is do you think that the room on the left would be better to build into a small hobby studio for editing DV and audio? I like the fact that it does not have windows and has a steel door. I don't play drums so I think that I will pass on a control room for now. (I don't have a huge mixer any way) Just me, several guitars, several synths, DV Camera, microphones and amps and speakers. Not a recording space for a rock band.

all advice is helpfull.



Thanks!

 

[Ethan Winer]

> I will make a wall foam and bass trap. All I hope I can make my self. <

Don't waste your time with foam. If you want to make your own bass traps - real bass traps - see my article linked here:

www.ethanwiner.com/articles.html

Then look for "Build a better bass trap" partway down the list.

--Ethan

 

[John Sayers]

tweleves - I'd knock out the wall and use the right room and the middle room as one big control room. The bigger room will be better acoustically plus you have windows that will allow air in unless you want to aircon the whole setup.

You could then add the room on the left as a booth if you need it later.

cheers
john