Giant Home Recording Project Need Help!

Posted on May 26, 2008 03:08 am
MarcusC
Member Since: May 26, 2008

Hi Guys,

I am beginning a home studio project in my garage however from i have found a number of issues that are going to need to be tackled before i can even begin it. Any help/suggestions/ideas would be much appreciated. Here are some images i took, feel free to ask for more of specific areas:

s305.photobucket.com/albums/nn217/Marcus_C_album/

The garage itself is single brick walls with timber as the frame for the narrow attic above. The attic itself is quite narrow as you cannot stand up in it so i am thinking it would be best to completely seal this off (boards have just been attached to the timber beams to allow people to walk up there however it hasn't been completely sealed so leaks alot of dust down).

From the pictures you can see the garage area is in an L shape with the back left corner being a sealed off laundry and back toilet. There are a total of 3 windows with two wood/glass doors and a thin timber garage door operated on a motor. The floor is just plain concrete. Lighting is based around 3 fluorescents. Structurally it was built very strong and does not have any leaks or any integrity problems.

The plan is to have the main front car area as a live room with possibly an isolation booth and the back right corner as the control room seeing as the area lends itself to this simple arrangement.

Here are some problems i have noted:

1. Due to the laundry/toilet, plumbing noise/washing machine noise will occur.

2. The cheap sealing. On construction we skimped on the ceiling and put down wooden boards without covering the whole area creating a very dirty/dusty garage.

3. The door access is good as the live room would be entered from its left back area however the control room would have to be accessed via its back as that is where the current door is and its only other wall is squashed up against the neighbours fence. This means setting up the back wall to reduce reflections may be a bit of a problem.

4. The neighbours garage is almost right on top of mine and they go in and out alot in their cars and have a tendency to rev their engine.

5. There is lots of junk and cleaning it will take ages! Haha.

To be honest i think it is actually a very good building that would lend itself to a studio (maybe need to be double bricked though???) but due to my limited knowledge on studio design and construction i am a bit unsure. Let me know your thoughts on both this early planning stage as well as any materials you would recommend to improve its acoustics (or even redesigning the whole building!).

Cheers

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