I am SO disappointed in HGTV

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On the show "Weekend Warriors" I just watched two guys trying to convert this guy's garage into a "drum studio". I think they built using every myth in the book.

Their goal was to make the room soundproof so the neighbors wouldn't hear him drumming, and also give the room good acoustics. The guy obviously didn't do a second of research.

They started to stud the walls and then the owner said "I'd like to angle this wall because it will diffuse sound better", but he wasn't talking about angling the bottom plate... no, they angled the wall on the Z axis! And then they angled the second wall the same way, and even installed the door at an angle!!!!! The narrator of the show was even following right along saying "Angling the walls will help diffuse the sound."

Then of course they put insulation in the walls. "The insulation isn't for keeping out the elements", the narrator mused, "it's for stopping the sound from inside, getting out."

Then they drywalled, without running any outlets or electricals, and of course they only put up one layer of drywall. Then they showed the guys in the back yard with 3 rolls of carpet!!!! I knew what was next. The narrator said "The carpet isn't just for the floor in this studio, it's to stop the sound from going outside, and also to help make the room dead sounding". Then they showed the guys putting carpet on every square inch of the room... oh, but the cut out the spot for the 50 year old window to let in some light. So now HGTV is encouraging building death traps. How many fire codes were broken here??? And the last shot of the show was priceless. Since they didn't run any outlets, they showed a power strip hanging in the room that the guy must have mudded around and just stuck in the room.

HGTV should have thought very hard about airing this crap! All the work we do here to try to inform people on safe building, acoustics, sound proofing, and myth breaking, and this show just showed hundreds of thousands of people how to do it wrong, and people might die because of it. I'm so pissed off right now.
 
Did the bring the 'Fab 5' over for decorating the studio also?

Now that the Weekend Warriors have dismantled the studio room, let's see what the Fab 5 have to say...

Carson said:
"Oh my G-d, SonicClang, the carpet isn't just for the floor in this studio... you didn't. Where is Kai to straighten this mess out"
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I'm sorry, my wife would prefer the HGTV over my studio- I'm just dealing with it :)

Ok- I feel better now
 
I just saw the same episode. Before I discovered this site and before I ever read any of Ethans articles I would have thought this a cool idea. :o
I was picking apart everything they were doing. My son said "dad just let them build their room". I said "but its wrong, just plain wrong and unsafe".
Yeah I don't see how HGTV didn't look into this as well. Surely they have experts hanging around that should have stopped them from going through with airing this show. There was a lot of bad information put out there. People look at these shows for ideas and insight into the proper way to do home improvements.
Not to mention the fact that it looked like shit when they were done. :(
 
I'm still mad over the "Trading Spaces" episode where they did this guy's basement half as a practice room, and half as a library. The practice room was fine, they really didn't try anything with acoustics, but after doing the library in a Renaissance theme, they went looking for a Shakespeare quote to stencil above the door, to thematically bring together the two halves of the room.

I must have been screaming "If music be the food of love, play on" for about 5 minutes before they picked something totally unrelated and lame :mad:
 
haha, i saw this episode. i'm not even an experienced studio builder, and i knew that what they were doing was wrong.
 
Maybe one of us needs to get on one of those shows. Then while on camera we can say that we actually researched acoustics and this is the plan we can up with. Hopefully we can save the common man from wasting time and money and keep him from perishing in a fire.
 
mshilarious, that's... hilarious... :D I stopped watching trading spaces a long time ago after one of the idiot designers was screwing all these vertical pieces of wood into drywall and then couldn't out why they weren't staying up.

Ed, my wife would have been saying the same thing to me if she were home. I was literally yelling at the TV, but she had just left to work out.

I was thinking the same thing about one of us going on that show. Hell, I've got my brother-in-law coming out next weekend to do a little "weekend warrioring", we should film a bunch of it and send it to HGTV.
 
Well......

They were quite whacked, I'll give them that lol!!!!

But The way you described it is almost how I built mine. Mine has an 18" false ceiling though. The walls are covered with a thin, but dense carpet that can be used as a wall covering as well as flooring albeit it's a bit thin for flooring.

I didn't angle any walls though. On the Z-axis? LOL!!! That would feel like Alice In Wonderland LOL!!!!

Here's how to do it right on a tight budget:

http://www.lychesis.com/album/

and I DO have a power strip hanging on the wall, but that's for a fan and a small flourescent fixture that were isntalled after the electrical was placed :)
 
Well power strips are OK to use, in conjunction with properly installed outlets. But the specific way this guy did it was not right.

And yeah, the walls angled on the Z axis were just rediculous. :)
 
SonicClang said:
Well power strips are OK to use, in conjunction with properly installed outlets. But the specific way this guy did it was not right.

And yeah, the walls angled on the Z axis were just rediculous. :)
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Hey at least he made a cool ass work bench on the other side where he could store his Village People tool belt and hardhat.
 
I have to wonder if Bob Villa saw the episode and cringed too? At least Bob would have had enough of a budget to have done it right.
 
Anyone remeber the old "Batman" tv series, where the villians place was always filmed with the camera at an angle, the the walls and floor looked like a carnival funhouse? Maybe thats the look they were going for. lol
 
By the way why isn’t there a tv show that specializes in this kind of stuff. Like how to make bass traps and how to build a real studio with high budget and low budget but with real research. Or the latest mics and daws and stuff like that. Stuff you would only read about. In eq mag or recording mag. Or is there such a show that Im not aware of or is there not enough of an audience to actually air one?
 
I'm sure there just isn't enough of an audience for it. Or there might be but they don't want to take a chance on it bombing. Most shows on television are an insult to our intelligence.

TechTV, which I LOVED, even failed at holding the market with their target audience. And games grossed more than the movie industry last year by a factor of 3 or 4. It may just be that computer people don't watch much TV. Or maybe people like us are too busy making music and building studios to watch TV. :) I don't know!
 
That's a fantastic letter!


alien said:
Here's how to do it right on a tight budget:
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man, could you get your monitors any closer together? I bet your mixes die a death in mono
 
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SonicClang said:
I'm sure there just isn't enough of an audience for it. Or there might be but they don't want to take a chance on it bombing. Most shows on television are an insult to our intelligence.

TechTV, which I LOVED, even failed at holding the market with their target audience. And games grossed more than the movie industry last year by a factor of 3 or 4. It may just be that computer people don't watch much TV. Or maybe people like us are too busy making music and building studios to watch TV. :) I don't know!
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I really enjoyed techtv until it was taken over by G4. I mean I like video games but all the shows that were on games were reviewing the same games over and over. It was fine at first but after a while I couldn’t tell one show from the next. I got sick of it and I just didn’t want that channel any more. but I say the rising interest in the home recording is enough to take not of. I think the internet is that place to start such a show.
 
Guys, I actually did it!!!!!! HGTV has pulled the episode!!!!

I just received this e-mail from them.

Thank you for your e-mail. We appreciate you calling our attention to this matter. We have forwarded this on to our program director who has decided to pull the episode. Thanks again.

I can't believe it! I want to thank everyone who supported me both here and oh John Sayers' forums. And thanks to Rod who wrote them a letter along with me e-mailing them.
 
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