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conan
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OK guys, for those people who still remember my studio building shenanigans and want to see the mess I made of it, here goes:
http://www.mobineko.com/freakz/gfx/cr-d1.jpg
http://www.mobineko.com/freakz/gfx/cr-rack.jpg
http://www.mobineko.com/freakz/gfx/studio-cab.jpg
It's small, but it's mine
As a reminder, I ripped out the top half of a house and built floating rooms on top of neoprene suspended joists. One bedroom got turned into a control room, the other an office/vocal room (I don't record many vocals). I spent about £3000 on materials (excl. equipment) and £60 on a structural engineer to check the house wouldn't fall apart (worth every penny). The walls are 9.5mm+12mm plasterboard insulated with generic 100mm fibreglass insulation. My neighbour happened to be closing down his fabric store, hence the lovely faux-suede (fire-rated, of course) walls There's a double door airlock with cheap (£30) 45mm firedoors and card-swipe entry. The studio/control room ring mains are powered from a UPS I had spare and it's already saved my bacon at least 3 times. I installed a separate consumer board upstairs to feed the UPS and lighting circuits. Just one major thing lacking now though: air con!
I'm honestly amazed at the results. The aim was to stop sound getting out and in this respect it surpassed anything I imagined, and there were certainly things I know if I did this again. The floor is only a single layer of 22mm plywood because downstairs is only used as a lounge/kitchen area for clients - visitors are pretty amazed that while quite a bit of sound leaks from the control room downstairs, not a peep leaks through to the adjacent vocal room. Even more amazingly, it's a terraced house and I wanted to check that nothing was getting through to next door; I put out what my monitors claim to be 105db bass-heavy music and again not a peep. Big thanks to everyone here who helped get such a great result.
Oh, and I built the units out of pine Premboard (furniture board from B&Q in the UK) and varnished them satin oak. I was well chuffed with that nifty pull-out keyboard shelf, which I made by taking apart a computer desk and thieving the rails. I persuaded a furniture shop to sell me some more sets of rails at £5 a piece to make the pull-out rack shelf and computer keyboard shelf.
The moral of the story is: if a 22 year old DIY novice can do it on 3 grand and the occasional use of a friend, anyone and their dog can! It was much easier and cheaper than I thought.
I have a ton of in-progress construction pics that I'll get up as soon as I find time to organise them.
http://www.mobineko.com/freakz/gfx/cr-d1.jpg
http://www.mobineko.com/freakz/gfx/cr-rack.jpg
http://www.mobineko.com/freakz/gfx/studio-cab.jpg
It's small, but it's mine
As a reminder, I ripped out the top half of a house and built floating rooms on top of neoprene suspended joists. One bedroom got turned into a control room, the other an office/vocal room (I don't record many vocals). I spent about £3000 on materials (excl. equipment) and £60 on a structural engineer to check the house wouldn't fall apart (worth every penny). The walls are 9.5mm+12mm plasterboard insulated with generic 100mm fibreglass insulation. My neighbour happened to be closing down his fabric store, hence the lovely faux-suede (fire-rated, of course) walls
There's a double door airlock with cheap (£30) 45mm firedoors and card-swipe entry. The studio/control room ring mains are powered from a UPS I had spare and it's already saved my bacon at least 3 times. I installed a separate consumer board upstairs to feed the UPS and lighting circuits. Just one major thing lacking now though: air con!I'm honestly amazed at the results. The aim was to stop sound getting out and in this respect it surpassed anything I imagined, and there were certainly things I know if I did this again. The floor is only a single layer of 22mm plywood because downstairs is only used as a lounge/kitchen area for clients - visitors are pretty amazed that while quite a bit of sound leaks from the control room downstairs, not a peep leaks through to the adjacent vocal room. Even more amazingly, it's a terraced house and I wanted to check that nothing was getting through to next door; I put out what my monitors claim to be 105db bass-heavy music and again not a peep. Big thanks to everyone here who helped get such a great result.
Oh, and I built the units out of pine Premboard (furniture board from B&Q in the UK) and varnished them satin oak. I was well chuffed with that nifty pull-out keyboard shelf, which I made by taking apart a computer desk and thieving the rails. I persuaded a furniture shop to sell me some more sets of rails at £5 a piece to make the pull-out rack shelf and computer keyboard shelf.
The moral of the story is: if a 22 year old DIY novice can do it on 3 grand and the occasional use of a friend, anyone and their dog can! It was much easier and cheaper than I thought.
I have a ton of in-progress construction pics that I'll get up as soon as I find time to organise them.
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I got the suede for about $2.50/m (bankrupt stock).. 60" width and firerated too. Covered up my dodgy plasterboard job very nicely thankyou 
