Humidity

[COSSA]

I am in the process of setting up my home studio. It is a 28 X 28 brick and sheetrock building with an insulated garage door for equipment unloading.

It is heated and cooled by a window unit, which I have not been running much in order to keep the costs down.

I am worried about the humidity inside though. I bought a cheap hygrometer at Home Depot that records the min and max temperature and relative humifity each day.

The humidity in the room rangesfrom a low of 45% to a high of 60%, but usually hovers around 55%.

What should I shoot for to keep the humidity at in this room to protect my computer equipment, recording equipment, and guitars?

I noticed some rust on some guitar pickups and strings, but I read online that this is caused from rapid warming of a room, and I had rapidly warmed it from 60 degrees to about 80 in a about ten minutes.

Please let me know your humidity solutions.

 

[mshilarious]

I am in the process of setting up my home studio. It is a 28 X 28 brick and sheetrock building with an insulated garage door for equipment unloading.

It is heated and cooled by a window unit, which I have not been running much in order to keep the costs down.

I am worried about the humidity inside though. I bought a cheap hygrometer at Home Depot that records the min and max temperature and relative humifity each day.

The humidity in the room rangesfrom a low of 45% to a high of 60%, but usually hovers around 55%.

What should I shoot for to keep the humidity at in this room to protect my computer equipment, recording equipment, and guitars?

I noticed some rust on some guitar pickups and strings, but I read online that this is caused from rapid warming of a room, and I had rapidly warmed it from 60 degrees to about 80 in a about ten minutes.

Please let me know your humidity solutions.

Your room is a little more humid than recommended. However I doubt that rapid warming that is the problem with the rust; rapid cooling causes condensation.

Rapid warming can be a problem for wood instruments. Really any drastic change should be avoided. You should try to keep the room closer to a comfortable temperature. You shouldn't heat the room to 80 degrees if it's normally 60.

Also, find a way to isolate the studio from the garage door, since you don't want to rapidly vent the inside air when the garage door is opened.

 

[ronsmith]

humidity

I also have a wall unit ac in my studio. I use a dehumidifier to control humidity
in summer and a oil-filled portable heater for clean, quiet heat in winter. I built an insulated box cover to put over the wall unit inside. A humidity meter is a must. I try to keep the level in the comfort zone marked on the meter. I only run the ac in between takes and before recording. I have tracked lighting which also puts off considerable heat.