Well I certainly won't have tall ceilings. But this small room will be better than recording in an open basement even if it is a finished basement.
I figure any recording I can do in this one booth/room will really help me reduce my angry neighbor level. So that's why I am planning on lugging guitar amps in and out. I get decent vocals out in the open believe it or not, so if the drums resonate too much in the booth I can still record vocals outside of it. Vocals may be slightly annoying to a neighbor, but I bet they can barely even hear anything, and it's nothing compared to a drum set or a crunchy guitar riff played 50 times over and over again.
I'm going to insulate my basement ceiling, and the walls attached to me neighbors, then I'm going to build this interior room/booth pretty much the way I laid out. I'll add some carpet and carpet pad to the booth floor and do my best to learn about building a wall using decoupling. The noise level should be more like a loud TV next door instead of a rock concert. I'll be moving in 3 weeks, first I need to finish the basement, then I'm going to build the booth. So the good news is I'll get a chance to insulate and carpet the floor even before this booth is built. That should give me some extra isolation.
Also this whole setup should shield me a little bit from my two daughter trouncing around above me. That's the worst. I can't record anything unless they are either asleep or not around. But with an insulated floor, and a free standing interior room with an extra ceiling I should be able to record pretty much whenever I want.
It won't be completely isolated I'm sure, but it should be 100 times better than it is now.
