Need recommendation on House purchase for Studio please

[Killahurts]

Originally Posted by mwagener

My 2 cents:

If you need to make a living with it:

* get a house with a separate building for the studio, keep it away from your home/family/distractions.

* get a place where the atmosphere is inspiring for recording

* get a place that is at least twice as big as you think it should be

* get a place where you can start with minimal investment and then expand and built up as you make money with it.

If it's just a hobby, get any place that feels right.

I second all of this.

It's what I have done (separate studio building, 30ft. from the house), and I'm very, very happy here.

[chipwits]

Originally Posted by Rufuss Sewell

Hey, check out Texas. Cheap property. Lots of big land. Lots of musicians. Recording equipment is tax free!!! No income tax. Zoning in the country is almost always "No Restrictions." Lot's of country just outside of big cities. Low crime rate due to the fact that you're allowed to shoot and kill intruders pretty much no questions asked. I'd think twice about robbing someone in Texas.

I moved here from California. It's been an interesting change. I'm just outside of Austin running a studio in my house basically just like you're describing and it's been pretty great. I paid $132K and have a nice big house with plenty of rooms for recording on 2 acres. My house also has tons of stone tile everywhere which makes for some nice reverb. But, with convolution reverbs at hand, most of my tracking takes place in the dead room. Either way, it's nice to have options.

Good luck!

Hehe, this is real intesting, because I had decided on Fort Worth, Texas just a few days ago. Lots of Western Swing and Jazz musicians there (the music I am in to). And I can get a nice big home for like $75k. I can't believe they don't charge income taxes.. how does the state make their money? Do they charge insane property taxes? Fort worth crime is on par with the national average, which is good enough for me.. crime index around 450.

So you got a home with vaulted ceilings with concrete slab? I want one I guess with tile throughout. Do vaulted ceilings help? or do I need flat 15 foot ceilings?

James

[drBill]

Vaulted is better. Anything with parallel surfaces is not preferable.

[gjuodenas]

Just to put in a plug for Nashville:

Everything that applies to Austin applies to Nashville. There are countless studios in residential houses here. I have done some amazing acoustical transformations for clients with the large Schroeder diffusion modules I build. Large studio spaces are not very prevalent these days and I have proven time and again that small spaces can work very well if the acoustics are addresed properly. Yes vaulted ceilings can work if acoustically treated. I concentrate more on acoustically treating the existing
space than I do on isolation.

Everyone is talking about building a room within a room and floating it. Do you realize how expensive that is to do properly? I have designed studios that go to those extremes but usually not within the budget of project studios.

Make sure you plan a proper studio type electrical system, that is money very well spent.

[Andrew B.]

Or you could just use a houseboat like Dave Gilmour:
http://www.neptunepinkfloyd.co.uk/ga...cordingStudio/


Andrew

[Ruphus]

Interesting topic.
I´m planning to do the same thing, pondering still whether it will be somewhere in Central America or possibly in Spain or Italy. ( Will probably be heading to CA soon to check out.)
CA would be meaning incredible options on house and climate, but every place has its pros and cons ( like specific preparation against burglary needed in CA.)

Anyway, I thought to remind you what has been pointed out on GS in the past already. The saying about parallel walls is of limited value. Seems it rather depends on proportions and dimensions. After all many of the best sounding opera houses are rectangular too. Guess it has alot to do with that sound does not spread like light beams.

What AC is concerned I have found a graduate ingeneer who is specialized on preparing clean AC for measuring labs internationally. Could be that there would add some shipping costs to the bill from here to USA, but I can say that he quoted very reasonable pricing to me on the equipment itself. ( I had inquired for a quality rig that would transform from 110V to 220V and from 60Hz to 50Hz.) His name is Peter Zarden, anyone interested can PM me for his e-mail address.

Ruphus

[worm]

Originally Posted by cosmos

i dident draw these myself, but i do others, its very easy when you learn the software.

its called "SketchUp" either version 4 or 5, the higher the better. emule it ( but shhh.... ) we never download cracked software ...

not when we don't have to at least ;p

http://sketchup.google.com/