My studio idea...suggestions welcome

[Beezoboy]

This is the first of many questions I will be posting in his forum. I have attached the plan for how I would like to build my studio. (Not to Scale!!)

Exterior walls will be 4" thick with 1/2 inch plywood also covered with foam and then siding. There will then be fiberglass insulation. For the interior I was thinking of osb board, 1 inch thick wood spacers and then sheetrock (gipsum) on the outside. Will this be ok for sound absorbtion. I live in a fairly quiet neighborhood and have never had complaints about our band practicing. This sound proofing is more for us inside the house in case a session goes late and someone wants to try and catch some sleep.

For the floor I was thinking regular 2 x 8 floor joists, a layer of 3/4 inch plywood, a layer of indoor/outdoor carpet and then hardwood over the top of it.

For the ceiling I am completely stumped. Is a high and sloped ceiling better or a drop ceiling at say 10 feet high? I wanted to have an A frame type ceiling and keep the ceilings high. They would be sheet rocked though.

Will this be ok?? I will build slot resonators for parrallel walls in the main studio. Mr Sayers will you please look at this and give me any suggestions.

 

[longsoughtfor]

Beezo - Your plan looks great so far. Take some time and do a good to scale drawing... Include doors & doublw walls where you think you will need them. Consider angleing the far wall in your main room so that it is not parallel to the control room wall.

For your ceiling... I like high celings (and wish I had one go for the cathedral celing but consider making it off center to keep it from focusing too much energy to one spot.

On your floor, Pergo makes a rubber underlayment for their floors that looks pretty good for isolation. It is available at Home Depot for $60/100ft2... you might consider that rather then the carpet under the wood.

Just some ideas...
Kevin.

 

[frederic]

Looks great

Others have made comments that I concur with, so I'll not repeat. I would recommend angling one wall in the drum room, probably the front wall if you can do it. If its a structure wall and cannot be angled, simply build an angled wall on the inside, to the tune of about 5-6 degrees, this way reflections in the room won't be so great.

Even in a "dead" room, bass drums tend to reverberate anyway.

Hope that helps.

This is the first of many questions I will be posting in his forum. I have attached the plan for how I would like to build my studio. (Not to Scale!!)

Exterior walls will be 4" thick with 1/2 inch plywood also covered with foam and then siding. There will then be fiberglass insulation. For the interior I was thinking of osb board, 1 inch thick wood spacers and then sheetrock (gipsum) on the outside. Will this be ok for sound absorbtion. I live in a fairly quiet neighborhood and have never had complaints about our band practicing. This sound proofing is more for us inside the house in case a session goes late and someone wants to try and catch some sleep.

For the floor I was thinking regular 2 x 8 floor joists, a layer of 3/4 inch plywood, a layer of indoor/outdoor carpet and then hardwood over the top of it.

For the ceiling I am completely stumped. Is a high and sloped ceiling better or a drop ceiling at say 10 feet high? I wanted to have an A frame type ceiling and keep the ceilings high. They would be sheet rocked though.

Will this be ok?? I will build slot resonators for parrallel walls in the main studio. Mr Sayers will you please look at this and give me any suggestions.

 

[John Sayers]

I'll look into it today beezoboy and get back to you, looks good.

cheers
John