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Thanks. My father in law built the room with my guidance.

Yes, I will use it commercially as well. In my old studio the vocal booth was an extented closet which wasn't very impressive at all, and had a lot of weird resonance frequencies I didn't have room for to fix. This one is much better sounding.

Thanks for checking it out.

Ken

Went and got a new desk over the weekend. I got an Ikea Fredrick (works great for what I do) and a few Rast tables to convert to racks for later use.

I need a new camera


Oh and I don't think I ever showed my ugly face.

I've got a rack built from a rast table. Works great

kenporter wrote:Just finished building my new studio in the garage. Floated floors, and soundproof walls. More bass traps or on the way...

Looks good. Did you make the bass traps?

Verbal wrote:

kb420 wrote:Here is my setup. It's still a work in progress. Gotta clean up the wiring, but I just got done building the desk on Friday.

In for info on how you built the desk.

I actually took some numbers from the desk that I had for my old computer (basic height and depth). Then I modified them to accomodate the new monitors. Once I had all the numbers, I went to Home Depot and had them cut all of the peices. I bought a drill and screws and assembled it. Then I primed and painted it. The edges are just an edging tape that has glue on it. You just use a regular iron to fix it in place. That's pretty much it.

Hi kenporter
Love the studio. How long will it stay that tidy !!
Could you post a close up of how you have supported your trigger finger or korg unit or whatever it is on the left. I am trying to find a way to do similar having run out of desk space.
Good luck with the studio work
Zenke

zenke wrote:Hi kenporter
Love the studio. How long will it stay that tidy !!
Could you post a close up of how you have supported your trigger finger or korg unit or whatever it is on the left. I am trying to find a way to do similar having run out of desk space.
Good luck with the studio work
Zenke

He used a snare stand.

zenke wrote:Hi kenporter
Love the studio. How long will it stay that tidy !!
Could you post a close up of how you have supported your trigger finger or korg unit or whatever it is on the left. I am trying to find a way to do similar having run out of desk space.
Good luck with the studio work
Zenke

Hey Zenke,

Yes, like Kaffein said I used a snare stand from Guitar Center for like $20. As far as how long the studio will stay this tidy, well for a long time. I've always been obsessed with having a clean studio, it keeps me inspired. I can't work in clutter.

Thanks for checking it out.

Ken

chris vine wrote:

kenporter wrote:Just finished building my new studio in the garage. Floated floors, and soundproof walls. More bass traps or on the way...

Looks good. Did you make the bass traps?

Thanks, those are Realtraps, www.realtraps.com. I just got some acoutics fabric from GOM and wrapped it around the Realtraps, since I didn't really like the looks of them originally.

Ken

kenporter, any progress pics?

I want to do that to room eventually. How loud can you play before its heard outside of the room?

Hey Verbal,

Yes, I did take some lousy progress pictures. I am sorta pissed because I didn't really take pictures of the detail, i.e. the Auralex u-boat floaters, the soundbarrier stuff, insulation etc. Basically, I took pictures of the framing and drywall.

I can play it very loud (I have Meyer HD-1 monitors which can play very loud!), louder than I would ever monitor at before you can hear it outside the studio. My old studio used to be next to my daughter's room and I always woke here, now my wife's office is "sharing" a wall with my studio and she can't hear anything even though I am playing it pretty loud. The room inside a room really is no BS, it works. When I am outside and listen to it (in the studio it's really loud) I can hear it when I am close to it. It sounds like someone is watching TV or something. When I step on the sidewalk, maybe 10-15 feet away I can't hear anything, the environmental noise covers it up. Two of my neighbors are cops, so I was happy to see that it actually worked and I won't bother them late at night with loud music.

Ken

Ken,
Great looking studio! If you don't mind, would you be willing to give a ballpark budget to get the room to where you have it? I've got a 3rd car stall that I've been dreaming of turning into a studio....but I haven't gone so far as to start figuring out how much it might actually end up costing. Your studio actually seems larger than a typical single stall, how wide is it? and is your ceiling higher than 9'? Sorry for the barrage of questions, but your studio looks great!

hi ken
studio looks great, but it looks as if the walls and ceiling/floor are parallel.
-might just be the pics though... just curious if you offset in the design to deal with direct reflection?

Sublimelobc,

It's hard to give a ballpark to be honest because my father in law had a lot of raw material for the framing, etc. Then, I didn't have to pay for labor, etc. So, I got it pretty "cheap" actually. The studio is only 10' wide, 17" (13' to the vocal booth) long and 9'+ high.

DK,

Yes, the sidewalls are parallel, unfortunately that was one of the constraints of building the studio in a 3 car garage with 2 cars. However, the ceiling above the listening position is slanted, that was possible since the roof of the garage is a seperate roof from the house. I do have Microtraps on the sides though for 1st reflection points, and the speakers are placed symmetrically. I will also mount a Microtrap on the ceiling and another Minitrap HF on the vocal booth wall for 2nd order reflections. This weekend I will actually measure the room, since I watched the webinar on speaker optimization on mixonline and man was that depressing! I have done a mix since the studio is done and it translated pretty well. I do have an issue at 130-160Hz though from running a test audio CD from Realtraps. Btw, if anyone is looking for a cheaper solution to Realtraps, I just found these guys and they seem to be really cheap, www.gikacoustics.com.

For the space I had I am pretty happy, plus we now have an extra room in the house again.

Ken

kenporter wrote:Sublimelobc,

It's hard to give a ballpark to be honest because my father in law had a lot of raw material for the framing, etc. Then, I didn't have to pay for labor, etc. So, I got it pretty "cheap" actually. The studio is only 10' wide, 17" (13' to the vocal booth) long and 9'+ high.

DK,

Yes, the sidewalls are parallel, unfortunately that was one of the constraints of building the studio in a 3 car garage with 2 cars. However, the ceiling above the listening position is slanted, that was possible since the roof of the garage is a seperate roof from the house. I do have Microtraps on the sides though for 1st reflection points, and the speakers are placed symmetrically. I will also mount a Microtrap on the ceiling and another Minitrap HF on the vocal booth wall for 2nd order reflections. This weekend I will actually measure the room, since I watched the webinar on speaker optimization on mixonline and man was that depressing! I have done a mix since the studio is done and it translated pretty well. I do have an issue at 130-160Hz though from running a test audio CD from Realtraps. Btw, if anyone is looking for a cheaper solution to Realtraps, I just found these guys and they seem to be really cheap, www.gikacoustics.com.

For the space I had I am pretty happy, plus we now have an extra room in the house again.

Ken

If you want even cheaper it's all just owens corning 703... http://www.atsacoustics.com

I have 4 open back 2x4'x4" bass traps, only cost me $200.
No reason to pay more unless you want less weight... (RTs)



edit: Hell actually there's no reason to pay more if anyone wants lighter weight they could just put the 703 in a proper acoustically transparent bag if you don't need a frame.