Rod Gervais

Gareth,

I don't know who is doing your design - and what they may (or may not) have designed in the past...... however you may want to think about options - because this is the sort of thing that would make me a bit nervous if I were paying someone to design my space - and if they are a friend and are designing this for free - they sound really not qualified to do the design.

Rod

Thanks for taking the time to reply Rod. I can feel even more confident in telling them it's not something I see the need for now.

Hi Rod, I really appreciate all your input Ive found on here regarding studio construction and more specifically floating floors.

Quick question, our church wants to build a small studio, and the studio designer is pushing real hard for us to put in a floating floor. I personally dont think it's worth the amount of money one costs. Cos the live room building is ground floor, has a thick cement floor, and isnt connected to the control room or other buildings. The designer is saying that it gives the room a more ambient sound, just wondering what you think? the room is 9mx5mX2.4m

Thanks
Gareth

Rod,
just finished reading your book for the third time and getting ready to break ground on my basement studio. Based on your recommendation, i'm going to go with the one large room approach (i have about a 15x25 area to work with). I have searched the web for any one room design ideas and have found almost nothing. Do you have any that are similar in detail to the multi room you use in chapter 10?
thanks again for writing such a great tool for all of us to use.

Hey Rod, let me start by saying your book has schooled me. Doing tons of research for my own future build. I am a carpenter, and it is true everything is quite different in how you approach a studio. Im sure I will have a few questions down the road, hopefully you wouldnt mind answering. For now...any thoughts on these things below?

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Hi Rod,

Your book Home Recording Studio arrived this week and I have been going through it all. On page 63 you talk about different wall configs with two insulated walls with double drywall on each side equiv to 63 STC. A room for a drumkit, if I doubled this so 4 walls with insulation and the 4 layers of drywall will this make a considerable difference. Im guessing It wont just double to the stc.

I have very limited space and larger will just cost more, inside room size 2.3 m x 1.9 m x 2.4 m approx just enough for a drum kit. Then a gap of 120mm (5inches) air gap then the other wall. All floors, walls and ceiling will have insualtion and airgaps with abosoluty nothing....

The room will be outside. So it's decoupled, from anything, just got to build the walls decoupled.

If you can help at all. I would really appreciate it. Thanks for the great Book.

Hey Rod. No need to apologize. No worries.

As a side note - my gear will be a Sanyo PLV4 projector. Bi Wired Paradigm Studio Monitor 60s' vs.4 with matching center cc-590 and bipolar rears all set up set up in 5.1 surround. Paragdigm 12" sub. Yamaha RX-V3800 reciever, Escient Fireball hard drive, PS3. All hopefull run through an android tablet?(though my receiver is 7.1 I'm running an against wall wet bar the full width of the room and its only 20ft so I don't really have much extra room to play with. 5.1 with these speakers should be decent. As much as I'm into movies I would love to be an audifile and have better / cleaner high high end straight 2 channel stuff. these speaker are good and from what I've heard I need to make a big jump in monies to get to where I'd like to be.

Two real questions the drywal thickness? And the door issues? But please feel free to offer anything else you'd like. And of course if you fee like adding thi ssomehow to the forum feel free the more input the better..Thank you in advance..Cheers Mike

The door the weak link...I orignally planned a double door exterior steel door set up with full metal casing. Then I thought the center where the door meets wouldn't be an even weaker point? A friend has given me a solid wood door 42" in width..nice it has has a two panel detail but I thought I'd laminate a 5/8 or thicker panel to the inside and cover it with some sort of soft material to absorb sound? The weather stripping I'll have to applay myself and the obvious big concern is the bottom of the door? Sorry this message is all over - it got erased with trying to send too much at once.