rivilee
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What was originally being built as a "she shed" for my wife to do her sewing in is now becoming my practice/recording space. Yay! It was her idea- we're basically swapping space so she can stay in the house with her hobby.
Don't need to worry too much about sound isolation. The neighbors have already been beat into submission by my kids banging away on the drums in the garage at all hours of the night. Not too worried about outside noise- it's a decently quiet neighborhood.
Here's where I'm at (obviously built with no regard to being a music room):
It's 15.5 ft. x 11.5 ft. and 11.5 ft. high. It'll have a drum set, a guitar amp, a keyboard and a desk for my computer. Also gonna put in a little sleeping loft on the windowless side. The loft will be about six feet deep about five and a half feet up from the floor. The stairs (ladder) to the loft will be by the front door. Using an inverter minisplit wall mounted unit for cooling and heat. Would like to get it finished in the next two weeks.
My goal is to have a musical sounding room with a fairly even frequency response at the desk (wherever that's going to be). I know symmetry is important for a control room but the emphasis here is as a practice room. Having a good mixdown would be nice but I don't plan on placing the desk out in the middle of the room.
I'm guessing the weak links in the room with STC are the windows and especially the door. I'm definitely NOT doing room within a room. The door itself is solid core with good seal. I'm thinking I could add laminated glass to either side (where the little windows are) of the door and add a layer of laminated glass over the windows and that would give me a fairly balanced space for sound isolation. I don't really want to hang double drywall.... The floor would be the weakest link. I originally was going to have 1/2" foam over the subfloor with laminate flooring on top of that. Maybe a thin layer of concrete on the subfloor? The pier foundation is pretty solid.
So, what do you think? I'm mainly excited that I'll have isolated space for drum practice. My wife still wants me to have a sleeping loft so when one of my college kids comes home they have a spot to themselves for the weekend. I could put a sound cloud in the open area but it's wired for a ceiling fan right now. Might could do a sound cloud on either side.
I'm doing the work myself and have about $1000 left for remaining supplies. Since the picture was taken I've put insulation up and really don't have much left to buy to finish it "as is".
Thanks,
Rick
Don't need to worry too much about sound isolation. The neighbors have already been beat into submission by my kids banging away on the drums in the garage at all hours of the night. Not too worried about outside noise- it's a decently quiet neighborhood.
Here's where I'm at (obviously built with no regard to being a music room):
It's 15.5 ft. x 11.5 ft. and 11.5 ft. high. It'll have a drum set, a guitar amp, a keyboard and a desk for my computer. Also gonna put in a little sleeping loft on the windowless side. The loft will be about six feet deep about five and a half feet up from the floor. The stairs (ladder) to the loft will be by the front door. Using an inverter minisplit wall mounted unit for cooling and heat. Would like to get it finished in the next two weeks.
My goal is to have a musical sounding room with a fairly even frequency response at the desk (wherever that's going to be). I know symmetry is important for a control room but the emphasis here is as a practice room. Having a good mixdown would be nice but I don't plan on placing the desk out in the middle of the room.
I'm guessing the weak links in the room with STC are the windows and especially the door. I'm definitely NOT doing room within a room. The door itself is solid core with good seal. I'm thinking I could add laminated glass to either side (where the little windows are) of the door and add a layer of laminated glass over the windows and that would give me a fairly balanced space for sound isolation. I don't really want to hang double drywall.... The floor would be the weakest link. I originally was going to have 1/2" foam over the subfloor with laminate flooring on top of that. Maybe a thin layer of concrete on the subfloor? The pier foundation is pretty solid.
So, what do you think? I'm mainly excited that I'll have isolated space for drum practice. My wife still wants me to have a sleeping loft so when one of my college kids comes home they have a spot to themselves for the weekend. I could put a sound cloud in the open area but it's wired for a ceiling fan right now. Might could do a sound cloud on either side.
I'm doing the work myself and have about $1000 left for remaining supplies. Since the picture was taken I've put insulation up and really don't have much left to buy to finish it "as is".
Thanks,
Rick