Small studio construction in Amstetten/Austria!

[StoneColdKiller]

Hi Everyone!
This is my first thread here... I'm currently re-building a small studio in Amstetten/Austria. I do mostly rock & heavier stuff. My goal is offer complete productions including tracking, mixing & mastering.

Alright, lets start with the last pic of my old CR:



Left wall was covered with foam, back and right wall with a thick carpet over glass wool, ceiling with felt, carpet on floor. The response was quite ok, but the room was way to dead and uncomfortable.

So here’s the design for the re-construction, not 100% finished, but good enough to start cutting wood.





The Room’s Dimensions are 2.45 x 3.7m (8x12ft). It features flush mounted speakers (BM15a’s) in a similar design to the one that Thomas of Barefoot Sound shows in this thread:
John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum • View topic - Monitor Flush Mounting Method

Bass traps in the front, angular slot resonator walls on the back sides, absorbers on the side & roof to get a (hopefully) sweet listening spot.

The first thing I did was to remove all carpets, cloth and foam from walls & ceiling, looking like this



Removed boards & insulation and measured the raw room, for later comparison



Starting with the construction:

[StoneColdKiller]

Construction of the side walls:






Rear Wall:




Setting up the boxes that will eventually become bass traps or resonators. (depending on the room’s frequency response).

[StoneColdKiller]

Building speaker’s housing







1st pic with speakers in its place:







Cutting the Baffles, I made them of a 30mm chipboard-plywood laminate.





Painted & absorber panel in the middle





With absorbers on ceiling & side walls





Last pic:

[Tonio Ruiz]

very nice looking, how does it sound ??? congrats

[zwiebel]

Great Job!
The room looks not very big...isn't it?

[WindWalker]

Nice!!!

[StoneColdKiller]

thanx for the replies!
so far the room sounds great, compared to the situation before, but i havent really mixed anything so far..
i'm going to do some measurements soon!

yea, room is damn small.. about 8 by 12 foot.
regards
fritz

[SmiLeyyy]

Heey!

Really nice lookin! And you did the work fast too! Impressive :D

But i have one question... Is the room below ground? I can see dark spots on the concrete... if that is MOISTURE you can have alot of trouble since you put insulation and wood against it! in a couple of months/years there can be mold all over the insulation and the air and smell will be terrible!

i had to use a special "carpet" called platon in my studio! check: Stil Got Time To Remake The Scetches! HELP ME :D


Let's hope your place is not under ground

Good luck!

Tim

[StoneColdKiller]

hi tim!
i'been working for the last 6 weeks, turned the hallway into a carpentry
its on the first floor, so there shouldnt be a problem, at least i hope that!
regards
fritz

[Yeah, right...]

Originally Posted by Tonio Ruiz

very nice looking, how does it sound ??? congrats

Tonio, you stole my EXACT words

Nice work Fritz. Good luck, Mike

[phybeau]

Very nice indeed!

and fast stike...only six weeks? I'm jealous...(any chance you'd swing by and lend me a hand?...)

All the best!
Phybeau

[StoneColdKiller]

Hi!
I did some measurements. Impulse & frequency resopnse with ARTA. I also post the results of the raw room.

To me it looks pretty good in comparrison, but i don't got so much experience in interpreting the results. I would really appreciate if you could tell me if you see some problems.
thanx
fritz

[AndyHD]

Awesome looking studio mate.

What desk is that?

[G. E.]

Originally Posted by StoneColdKiller

... I did some measurements. Impulse & frequency resopnse with ARTA. ...

Could you post ARTA's "raw" files? -- I think it's in the *.pir format.

[amishsixstringe]

That's a pretty deep hole around 95Hz. How are you going to deal with that?

Neil