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eråk · 13th May 2008, 09:37 AM

I´m about to start looking for a new appartment for my family, and I´m considering investing in an extra room where I can set up a home studio (I rent a studio space now). Before I even start looking I thought I´d ask you acoustical genii some questions about what to think about when planning a studio in a residential area (and of course I welcome advice on all the things I didn´t think to ask about..).

1. The appartment has to be located in central Oslo, so every square centimeter costs an arm and a leg. I only do ITB electronic music so there´s no tracking space involved, nor loads of gear and 90% of the time no musicians other than me . How small can I possibly go before making it impossible to achieve somewhat accurate monitoring conditions.

2. Since I´m not doing the construction from the ground up, what would you look for in an existing room as a good starting point, i.e. which floor it´s on, what construction methods used etc.? Are there any pitfalls I should look out for?

3. The appartment is most probably going to be located in an appartment complex/building, so there´s going to be neighbours on all sides - how well can I expect to isolate the room in regards to keeping noise in (most of my music is quite bassheavy : / )? I´m thinking of floating the room, but I´m wondering how effective it will be if the room is too small to use the amount of space between walls/thickness of materials etc. that I´ve seen mentioned in various examples of box in box constructions.

I am, as you´ve probably gathered from this post, as bit green when it comes to studio construction - but this project is still at least 6 months off and hopefully by that time I´ll have picked up a thing or two..

Thanks in advance for any advice, much appreciated!

13th May 2008, 09:37 AM	#1
eråk Gear interested Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 16	Dreaming of a small 1-room studio in an appartment. I´m about to start looking for a new appartment for my family, and I´m considering investing in an extra room where I can set up a home studio (I rent a studio space now). Before I even start looking I thought I´d ask you acoustical genii some questions about what to think about when planning a studio in a residential area (and of course I welcome advice on all the things I didn´t think to ask about..). 1. The appartment has to be located in central Oslo, so every square centimeter costs an arm and a leg. I only do ITB electronic music so there´s no tracking space involved, nor loads of gear and 90% of the time no musicians other than me . How small can I possibly go before making it impossible to achieve somewhat accurate monitoring conditions. 2. Since I´m not doing the construction from the ground up, what would you look for in an existing room as a good starting point, i.e. which floor it´s on, what construction methods used etc.? Are there any pitfalls I should look out for? 3. The appartment is most probably going to be located in an appartment complex/building, so there´s going to be neighbours on all sides - how well can I expect to isolate the room in regards to keeping noise in (most of my music is quite bassheavy : / )? I´m thinking of floating the room, but I´m wondering how effective it will be if the room is too small to use the amount of space between walls/thickness of materials etc. that I´ve seen mentioned in various examples of box in box constructions. I am, as you´ve probably gathered from this post, as bit green when it comes to studio construction - but this project is still at least 6 months off and hopefully by that time I´ll have picked up a thing or two.. Thanks in advance for any advice, much appreciated!