This has cropped up in a couple of threads but my studio has been completely rebuilt so I thought I'd run through what we did.
My studio is a garage about 10m x 4.5m in size, with a 6.5m live room and a 3.5m store/machine room at one end, 2.5m ceiling height.
For the last 7 years I've lived with the less than ideal acoustics- it is a stone, brick and concrete structure, so it was a disaster really.
I wanted to fix this.
I also wanted something a lot more secure and insulated, cover up some sky lights, double doors between the studio and machine room and had a few other requirements.
I employed an acoustician friend to do the acoustic design of the room.
He recommended changing the dimensions slightly, bringing one wall forward by 0.5m.
Also dropping the ceiling height over the mix position with a dropped bulkhead (by 200mm), so that my ears and monitors were not at 50% of the ceiling height.
We framed up the room, filled the cavities with rockwool, rebuilt walls, redid the electrics, replaced old track lighting with recessed spots (Philips Hue).
I wanted channels for audio cabling and I decided on using removable skirting for this with (lots of) Cat6a cabling running just above the audio cable channels.
A lot of time was spent running power away from audio and Cat6a.
I am also putting everything with a fan in the machine room in a 45u server rack.
We are hanging a lot of bass traps in the wall/ceiling corners, some of the ceiling and a lot on the walls.
We are hopefully finishing the build tomorrow and then I can get to running the audio cabling and putting all the gear in the room.
Really pleased how it has turned out- can't wait to get back to work.
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It is a personal studio, I won't have clients here for the most part, so I hadn't thought of a name.
Suggestions considered.
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Are your Kii Three monitors going in here?
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That isn't really much of a thing anymore as there were too many people doing it and pretty much everyone has a studio of their own now.
But I produce, engineer and compose.
I also write articles on recording studio practice and methodology, sometimes lecturing on these topics too.
You can find articles of mine here:
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I am going to try to use both sets of monitors up front (ATC's and Kii's).
I need to do some room readings when I get everything in and see what works best.
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It wasn't really before though.
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Getting this accurate has taken days.
The cloud in particular was a bugger.
We used 6 cleats per pair of traps- the right traps are attached to the left ones with a coupling bar.
The cloud is solid as a rock.
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But it is coming together slowly.
Yes, I know the speakers are too wide- this is to make cabling everything easier for now.
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I'm down to the fiddly stuff now- running audio cables through walls and skirting cavities.
So far the acoustic isolation between the two rooms is fantastic.
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Still running cables.
Yes, a month later.
But getting close now.
I need to figure out what I am doing with monitoring.
The ATC's are too wide with the Kii's in the correct position.
Cutting down to one pair of monitors is always an option but I am disinclined to do that.
The ATC's, being horizontal, are tricky to place if you have any other large monitors in the room.
I could sell them and go up to SCM50's, which are vertical, but that would be another big pile o money.
Also maybe a bit too big for the room.
Still need to think.
The modular desk is brilliant, it is a new design from Buso Audio who also made the main desk.
In terms of room sound- it is so much better than before, as you might expect.
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