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WillyDavidK
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I'm looking into building an isolation room for primarily mic'ing vox and drumset. I want to build it into my existing studio, which has a lot of extra space. The room is on the second floor of a 2-story house built in the 70's. Floor foundation is wood. The studio currently has 2 computers, a window A/C unit, and a small refridgerator running, so there is a LOT of noise. My main goal is to be able to record from within the isolation room and hear very little or no noise from outside (it's not big deal to turn the window A/C unit off so it's mainly the two computers' noise). Isolating the sound from traveling to other areas of the house isn't a main concern, but would be a good added bonus (but no need to go to extra expense to try to achieve this).
It looks like the room will likely be around 5-7' square, depending on how thick the insulation needs to be. I would like to put a window on one wall to be able to see into the room from the console, and I am going to try to use a heavy steel door that was originally built with this house, but is now being replaced. The door and the window will not be on the same wall.
Hopefully that's enough information to get started, I've read around a bit, and have heard the suggestion to build a 'room inside of a room' so I'm just looking for some more detail and other suggestions so I can pick the best approach.
Depending on the size of the room, accoustic padding may not be in budget - otherwise I'll just use ceiling tiles as a substitute to absorb some of the resonant sound.
It looks like the room will likely be around 5-7' square, depending on how thick the insulation needs to be. I would like to put a window on one wall to be able to see into the room from the console, and I am going to try to use a heavy steel door that was originally built with this house, but is now being replaced. The door and the window will not be on the same wall.
Hopefully that's enough information to get started, I've read around a bit, and have heard the suggestion to build a 'room inside of a room' so I'm just looking for some more detail and other suggestions so I can pick the best approach.
Depending on the size of the room, accoustic padding may not be in budget - otherwise I'll just use ceiling tiles as a substitute to absorb some of the resonant sound.