| Good info above. I've built two on my own with hired help / contractors on extremely tight budgets. I'll limit my feedback to personal preference / experience things since there is such good reference materials available for the actual construction.
1. Control Room - this is where you will be spending most of your time so make sure it is large enough to be comfortable. If the whole buiilding was 1000 SF I'd make the control room at least 1/2 to 2/3rd of that if you can. If possible don't make it square...no parallel walls.
2. The floating floor thing...In both my studios I didn't go this route because of cost and I've never regretted it. Yeah...it's not as isolated as it could be but as long as you are not trying to peel your skin off with the control room volume I've never had a problem with leakage.
3. A/C - a very important thing. This is an area where I would bring in an HVAC contractor (maybe a few to compare) to get their opinion. What I have done is put the blowers farther apart from the intacts and tried to keep both lower to the floor as opposed to the ceiling. I've seen where folks used a large grill (like a big intake grill) as their output grill to reduce wind noise. |