Where is your studio located?

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Where is your studio?

  • Living Room or Den

    Votes: 90 9.1%

  • Spare Bedroom

    Votes: 326 33.1%

  • Closet

    Votes: 21 2.1%

  • Bathroom

    Votes: 5 0.5%

  • Basement/Rec Room

    Votes: 282 28.6%

  • Garage (Connected to house)

    Votes: 58 5.9%

  • Shed, Outbuilding, or Freestanding Garage

    Votes: 66 6.7%

  • Built a Freestanding Studio from the ground up

    Votes: 32 3.2%

  • Other (Specify)

    Votes: 89 9.0%

  • What's a studio?

    Votes: 16 1.6%
  • Total voters
    985
Basement in the current house, basement in the new house we just bought (move in 2 weeks). Can't wait!
 
GreyHound Bus..yep, you read it right!

lol....
I got an old greyhound bus and the guy said I could have it, it was already gutted out for a band to tour in, still has bedding but mostly gutted. I am going to convert it to a little studio and see what happens, lol, maybe nothing, but it's some space. Lot more space then this 10 X 10 I am in right now, with my puter, my recording stuff, arts and crafts and everything else my mom has going on!!!

yea!
btw, this is my first post or even visit here since october of last year, man I been busy, lol.
 
stetto said:
Yay! My wife & I finally found a 5 acre piece of woods to build a house on--Haven't decided on a floor plan, much less where my studio will be built, but it will likely reside in the basement (where I'm to be allotted the most sq. footage). I'm in a cellar now, so there won't be too many adjustments to make...heh heh heh...
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Congratulations on the house with the acreage....hey is that a spector bass I see there? :D
 
I've got a REAL studio. A freestanding one. A professional one! Check my site!
 
I currently record in a mid 19th century farmhouse with 12 foot ceilings and gigantic rooms. I also record in the house I live in which is a turn of the century farm house with 10 ft ceilins. Doesn't sound as good, but I like it. I do work in different places when need be, as I have my whole rig in three road cases. I am hopefully going to have a more perminent setup whenever I get moved out. Plan on gutting an old trailer. Any oppinions on this. I know not going to have the best accoustics, but it should be usable.
 
What about moisture...........

Track Rat said:
In the basement.
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I have lots of basement room......but wonder about damage to computer, amps, etc. from moisture-humidity.......seems the dampness would not be good. A dehumidifier would be costly......like running an airconditner 24/7. What do you think?

Right now I have my stuff setup in an empty bedroom........need more room to get behind equipment etc for hooking up cables. I keep thinking of starting over in the basement and building a framework to hold big spearkers, with a table front for mixer, DAW things.
 
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Plan on gutting an old trailer. Any oppinions on this. I know not going to have the best accoustics, but it should be usable.
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Its not the acoustics that you should worry about. Its isolation if you need it where the trailer is. There is virtually none as the construction of mobil homes are very lightweight assemblys, and are close to impossible to really beef up as the framing, especially the roof/ceiling structural elements are to lightweight to add any significant mass to. However, transmission through the floor is another issue even if you could beef up the walls and ceiling. And since this is
ONE LEAF assembly on a frame that cannot be sealed with an exterior leaf, its virtually a drum head that not only has close to zero transmission loss, also will resonate at its natural frequency. So I hope isolation isn't a problem.

As far as acoustics is concerned, in very small spaces, there is virtually zero ambiance anyway, but TERRIBLE modal issues are notorious. SERIOUS corner absorption via superchunks, and broadband absorption will help. If isolation isn't a problem, then low frequency leakage is your friend as well. What escapes to the outside world is one less thing to deal with inside, although you will still have modal problems.

However, it can be done. The moderator(Harvey Gerst) at this forum:
http://recforums.prosoundweb.com/index.php/f/32/0/

owns a PRO studio in Texas which is housed in a doublewide mobile that was gutted and stuffed with absorption, although was spec'ed by a professional acoustician. Harvey is also a guest poster here quite a bit, especially in the mic forum. He IS the mic expert, as well as the "budget" studio guru. Note his signature on the forum description ;)
 
RICK FITZPATRICK said:
Its not the acoustics that you should worry about. Its isolation if you need it where the trailer is. There is virtually none as the construction of mobil homes are very lightweight assemblys, and are close to impossible to really beef up as the framing, especially the roof/ceiling structural elements are to lightweight to add any significant mass to. However, transmission through the floor is another issue even if you could beef up the walls and ceiling. And since this is
ONE LEAF assembly on a frame that cannot be sealed with an exterior leaf, its virtually a drum head that not only has close to zero transmission loss, also will resonate at its natural frequency. So I hope isolation isn't a problem.
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Do you think the same could be said about manufactured homes?
 
Do you think the same could be said about manufactured homes?
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Perhaps. They still are manufactured on a "trailer" frame. At least the ones I have seen, even though they are placed on foundation. And the interior framing is not the same as a stick built home. Although, they do have sheetrocked interiors. But it would probably depend on the particular manufacturer and how the units are built. However, the bottom line here is the floor. The floors in manufactured homes are STILL a one leaf membrane...in otherwords...a drum head. Whether or not you could add mass to it is not the question. It is "decoupling" the floor that is. But its all relative to your iso needs. In my opinion, it would be very questionable if you could modify and construct massive assemblys in a manufactured home, robust enough to isolate high SPL music...especially low frequency and impact noise producing instruments such as drums. However, that doesn't mean it can't be done...but how much money do you have? :D
 
jbraddon said:
I've got a REAL studio. A freestanding one. A professional one! Check my site!
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I heard about this Studio in RP..... :mad: :mad: :mad:

Actually, not the Studio, an infiltrator!! :confused: :confused: :mad:
 
My garage is my control room and tracking room. I just recorded drums in the kitchen/ dining room and I liked the more open sound of the hard wood floors and larger space.
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