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Not too much I can do about the height of the ceiling since the house is around 50 years old. Prob a few things about old houses that aren't up to code and can still be insured. So I'll build it and see haha. Already got a good start on construction anyways... I'm thinking when I eventually add onto the house I'll build another studio there and the old space would turn into storage/jam space. Maybe I could make everyone sign an insurance waiver if I can't get it approved... lol.
I'll try to make the walls in the tracking room freestanding since that's where a lot of the loudest noise will be. Gonna be a bit of a challenge to engineer them that way but probably doable. I'll have double walls to separate the vocal booth, control room, tracking room, storage room (I have a roommate that plays drums and probably will have his kit in there), and guitar amp room from each other. Don't really care much about the bathroom. Just wanna have it decently isolated so sounds like toilet flushes/the shower don't bleed. Might be easier to throw up double walls made with 2x2's instead of 2x4's at the places I was gonna put staggered studded walls up.
Haven't looked into HVAC. I would only really need it for the tracking room since it has no window and maybe the amp room. Are they pricey?
I'm considering filling up the ceiling and partitions with Icynene Spray Foam Insulation & Air Barrier System. Don't need it to be absolutely silent on the main floor. But enough to keep the sound leakage at a decent level. The bedrooms are on the 2nd storey and the only 2 rooms on top of the tracking room on the main floor are the kitchen and my bedroom. The living room is on top of the control room, amp room and vocal booth. So it shouldn't be too loud upstairs since guitar amps and vocals are mostly mids and highs, and I'll be using a pair of KRK RP 6's as monitors.
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