The Emmy Studio Build- A nice project studio in New Jersey

[emmymusic1]

Hey Guys, Ive been rebuilding a room in my house to be a project studio. I've been watching around here on GS and became inspired to create my pride a joy. This is my dream and i hope it is just the beginning to a successful business! Thank you for taking the time to check it out. Ill be posting updates as I finish but here is was I have so far! These are pictures of before and plans for what i've been doing

[emmymusic1]

Frame and dry wall!!!!wooo

[emmymusic1]

Primer and paint!! WOOOOO

[emmymusic1]

More painting, TV Mounting, Wall decorations, Rugs!!!!

[emmymusic1]

Acoustic Treatment starting to build, Ceiling, Desk, SYMPHONY I/O!!!! ALMOST THERE!!!!!!

[emmymusic1]

PICS! Symphony! Waiting Room! Acoustic Treatment building!

[Colonel Blues]

Nice place, very inspiring ! Congrats, man !!!

[emmymusic1]

Originally Posted by Colonel Blues

Nice place, very inspiring ! Congrats, man !!!

thank you very much! i've been working very very hard! glad to know im spreading some inspiration!

[duff_bdg]

Congrats, nice studio !!!

[MidasHatesGold]

nice studio...room layout is very similar to mine...how does it sound?

[emmymusic1]

room sounds incredible with the treatments. the booth sounds amazing as well. i have a few more bass traps to build but the layout of the room sounds very good. it was tough before the treament came, but WOW the difference the panels make is huge. every instrument in that room sounds great. even drums. i was very surprised the ambience i can achieve in a room thats not huge! thanks for the input and compliments guys! any more feed back would be amazing

[Mendoza]

Nice build! Where in NJ are you located? Will you be opening up to the public or is this just for your personal projects?

[emmymusic1]

Originally Posted by Mendoza

Nice build! Where in NJ are you located? Will you be opening up to the public or is this just for your personal projects?

Voorhees, NJ..South Jersey right by Cherry Hill.. and yes it will be open to the public and will be opening another studio in the near future.

Emmy Productions | Facebook if you go to that page and go to Sessions With Brave New World you can see the live room in the other place im building. But yes this will be open to anyone who wants to record in both locations.

[heyman]

Emmy great job.. one question.. Did you lay any rock wool in the ceiling of the drum room. I see that you plan on traps for the walls.. was it enough?

An area of concern may be your cymbals and any high end coming back off the ceiling.. Do some recordings of drums with/without ceiling treatment. It may make a diffrence and clean up the cymbals. Let us know what works best for you.

[emmymusic1]

Originally Posted by heyman

Emmy great job.. one question.. Did you lay any rock wool in the ceiling of the drum room. I see that you plan on traps for the walls.. was it enough?

An area of concern may be your cymbals and any high end coming back off the ceiling.. Do some recordings of drums with/without ceiling treatment. It may make a diffrence and clean up the cymbals. Let us know what works best for you.

thanks you very much!! in fact i just layed owens corning 703 in the ceiling and put drywall and sheet rock in. im gonna tape, prime and paint tomorrow and get some pics up for you guys of the finished booth... the cymbals without the ceiling were a tad harsh but nothing that wasnt fixable, when im finished ill do a test and post the raw tracks and processed to give you and idea of the sound. vocals sound incredible, and the cabs are great too. im hoping the treated ceiling doesnt alter those to much

EDIT: the control room drop ceiling is 1" rigid fiberglass tiles

[deegodbe]

it's a beauty!!
really like the colors, clean and minimal
wish you all the bestthumbsup

[heyman]

Even though that drum room is not that big, having those obscure angles is- I am sure, helping tremendously to cut down on buildup of bad frequencies..

[emmymusic1]

Originally Posted by heyman

Even though that drum room is not that big, having those obscure angles is- I am sure, helping tremendously to cut down on buildup of bad frequencies..

you are 100% right. im no professional. im actually 21 years old and hand built everything myself. i did research here on GS and thanks to you guys i made my design. I think the obscure "diamond shape" looks good as well makes a smaller room sound much better ESP with the room treatments. i built the bass traps myself out of owens corning 703 2" and 4". the ceiling that im finishing up now is obscure and uneven as well. it goes from 7' to 8 1/2' all through out the top. it has owens corning in the joists and covered by 5/8 in dry wall. do you think a double layer is necessary? the room is pretty sound resistant. id say a good 80-85% of sound is absorbed in the walls. now the ceiling is the only thing thats im fixing up. im sure the insulation will eat up the excess noise but any advice would help me out. again, im no professional. im 21 and building by myself. the possitive feedback makes me feel like i did a job well done so far. i want to eventually be a producer, mixer, and studio owner so this is my first step! any pro advice would be amazing. if you want room test graphs ill post them up too

[Analogue Kid]

Hi mate

This is a great effort

Keep up the good work

Best


Andy

[emmymusic1]

Originally Posted by Analogue Kid

Hi mate

This is a great effort

Keep up the good work

Best


Andy

THANKS!!

[emmymusic1]

this is a very rough mix of how the room sounds. i figured some of you guys would like to hear how the small angled room sounds with treatments.. keep in mind ceiling still not completely done but i decided to get some tests anyway. badcat cab-gibson les paul surpreme, orange rocker100, ESP ...1960b cab.... pearl custom kit, sm57,sm81, etc...into symphony i/o... ITS ROUGH! but its still a pretty good test IMO.. btw the band is named brave new world. they are really good and will be recording their record with me. this test was primarily for the drums thats why the guitars are so low. just catching the little extra reverb on the set too but besides that lemme know what you guys think

matt

[heyman]

Originally Posted by emmymusic1

this is a very rough mix of how the room sounds. i figured some of you guys would like to hear how the small angled room sounds with treatments.. keep in mind ceiling still not completely done but i decided to get some tests anyway. badcat cab-gibson les paul surpreme, orange rocker100, ESP ...1960b cab.... pearl custom kit, sm57,sm81, etc...into symphony i/o... ITS ROUGH! but its still a pretty good test IMO.. btw the band is named brave new world. they are really good and will be recording their record with me. this test was primarily for the drums thats why the guitars are so low. just catching the little extra reverb on the set too but besides that lemme know what you guys think

matt

Nice...! The low end is really tight, which I like and not all over the place. Is there any sound replacement going on ...? Also is that all natural reverb or a plug in. Was there a distant mic used ?

No complaints here. Sounds really controlled but alive as well.

Great job.

[emmymusic1]

Originally Posted by heyman

Nice...! The low end is really tight, which I like and not all over the place. Is there any sound replacement going on ...? Also is that all natural reverb or a plug in. Was there a distant mic used ?

No complaints here. Sounds really controlled but alive as well.

Great job.

Hey! Thank you! no there is no replacement, but i did watch groove3 mixing rock and learned how to blend some samples by hand without drumagog. i think he used 3 but i only used one snare and one kick and the real tracks are always louder. the reverb is a mix of real and lexicon PCM native. i used a blue kiwi as a room mic running into a blue robbie, into a symphony i/o into pro tools. all mixed ITB everything you hear is real nothing replaced just enhanced a tiny bit.. oh yeah. Some parallel compression always helps.

Plugs used: sonnox oxford eq, Waves CLA76, Soundtoys Decapitator, Lexicon PCM native, The Glue on the buss and PC buss for some SSL flavor. thats the chain.. the room is almost done.

ill post a full song on here when i finish up. time to get back to work!

[once a roadie]

is this the same "brave new world" that won a battle of the bands in ~1986 at "the Front" in VT?

[emmymusic1]

Originally Posted by once a roadie

is this the same "brave new world" that won a battle of the bands in ~1986 at "the Front" in VT?

ahah no its a different one, i dont think they are even keeping the name but as of now thats what they go by.

[PSM]

I gotta stop entering this forum. I don't even have a house or space yet and I've already got major plans for renovation. lol

Nice build, man. Can't wait to hear some dry and finished tracks when it's all done.

[emmymusic1]

Originally Posted by PSM

I gotta stop entering this forum. I don't even have a house or space yet and I've already got major plans for renovation. lol

Nice build, man. Can't wait to hear some dry and finished tracks when it's all done.

hahahha yeah its very addictive when you have the creative freedom to build from scratch. when u get a space, the build is gonna be rediculously fun. and thank you. ill get some tracks up as soon as the ceiling is finished

[emmymusic1]

besides treatment under the dry wall on the ceiling, would anyone recommend some sort of cloud on top too? for more absorption? or is it enough under one sheet of 5/8th acoustic drywall. thanks again

[soulfield]

sharp looking spot!

Seems like a great sounding room and a good cut.

Out of curiosity what tracks had the CLA76 on them?

[emmymusic1]

Originally Posted by soulfield

sharp looking spot!

Seems like a great sounding room and a good cut.

Out of curiosity what tracks had the CLA76 on them?

Kick, Snare , Room Mic, and the guitars had a little but i put them low in the mix just for a drum test. cla76 with some soundtoys decapitator in the mix really makes the drums come alive. thanks also for the comments! workin hard over here