Studio/Rehearsal Room build in a shed

[TomRack]

Hey guys! Noobie here, just started reading on the forms and felt like this is a great place to get some of my questions answered.
Pictures below will describe everything better probably.. ha

-Me and a buddy are working on a room in his shed, the room is about 15x7 ft.

- All the walls are insulated with normal pink house fiber glass, we are putting up wooden walls over it currently. After that we plan to put maybe 10 audimute sheets hung up around all the walls as possible. Does anyone know anything about these sheets? the reviews seem good and videos prove them to be good. We are hoping all this will be able to sound proof the room as much as possible, and still be able to play at late hours without the neighbors hearing it.

-The roof has the same insulation and we are putting a thick layer of carpet padding to help the sound from not going through. We will probably end up tacking a sheet to the ceiling to make it better to the eye. There is also a area where we had to add a new strip and it doesn't match evenly.

-Floor, we aren't sure about, its just normal pieces off wood. So do we want the wood surface and carpet under things where necessary like drums, amps(which we also hope to lift on another absorbing material), desk, etc. Or we have normal house carpet we could put down all over. Any suggestions?

-Vocals, we were thinking just use a corner and make a booth with the sound sheets and that will give good enough quality and sound proof, but of course we would experiment all over the place as time goes by.

-A/C Here is a bit of a problem.. we are thinking we will just leave one spot open to instal a window unit when possible. And deal with either turning it on and off for recording, and just jam with it on, or what.

Looking to record a full band in there, not exactly live, but still be able to jam all day and possibly at night at decent volumes. Debating electric or acoustic drums, both are an option at hand. We'd all also be able to mic and use headphones or even plug straight in maybe.

Sorry to go through everything with so much, I just hope what i have plan is the right idea and will work for my needs. Any advice or comments would be amazing! Thanks ahead of time!
Glad i found this forum!

 

[mjbphotos]

Full band - 15' x 7'?? Are you all, uhh, 'short people'? That's a tinyspace for drums and amps. Forget the wood on the walls, that is just going to bounce sound around more. Don't know anything about the audimute stuff - do you mean the 'moving blankets' they call sound abosrbing sheets?, but I would say you are going to need broadband traps (4" thick with Roxul or OC703/705).
Also forget about a 'sound booth'. A good sound booth would be at least half the size of your shed, any smaller it is going to sound bad.

 

[TomRack]

Its really not that bad of a fit? Electric drums would easily fit on one side. The roof is about 8 feet. So our height really isn't an issue in this case.
I predict the sound quality will be good once the sheets are up. The walls will help with just keeping in sound from waking neighbors. As long as these sheets do what they're supposed to do. The "Sound booth" would just be so the vocal track was clean, just an idea, obviously we would experiment all over the place.
So all you have to suggest is bass traps? Thanks!

 

[ollie99]

Its really not that bad of a fit? Electric drums would easily fit on one side. The roof is about 8 feet. So our height really isn't an issue in this case.
I predict the sound quality will be good once the sheets are up. The walls will help with just keeping in sound from waking neighbors. As long as these sheets do what they're supposed to do. The "Sound booth" would just be so the vocal track was clean, just an idea, obviously we would experiment all over the place.
So all you have to suggest is bass traps? Thanks!

those sheets won't make the room sound booth nor will they make it sound much better, bass traps and rock wool panels will do a lot more.
Depending on how far away your neighbours are, I would say they will definitely be able to hear. Unless because you have electric drums you keep it all really quiet

 

[RAMI]

So all you have to suggest is bass traps? Thanks!

It's the best suggestion you'll get. You need bass traps and lots of them. Forget about "Sound proofing" that room, it ain't going to happen, certainly not without so much mass that you'd lose half your room. Don't expect miracles or great sound from a room so small, but you can do all you can to improve the sound. One of those things is....bass traps, lots of them. Like has been mentioned, forget the booth, a small room is the last place you want to record vocals, or anything else for that matter. If those things you're talking about are sheets or moving blankets, save your money and spend it on....bass traps, lots of them.

Wood floor is good, by the way.