Studio 82

[giorgio loco]

Hello people,

My name is Giorgio and I am from Athens, Greece.

I am currently constructing a home studio for my production needs. You will find attached a ground plan of the room with the basic set up.

The room is located in the -1 floor of a building in which only the 3rd, 4th and 5th floor are lived. The 1st and 2nd are offices which operate till 17:00 hours.

I would like to able to produce music 24/7 and that’s the reason I am making all this.

My question is about the acoustics and the soundproof. I would like to know what I should do in this case with a small to medium budget.

Than you in advance

[judah]

As far as I know, if you intend to produce music 24/7 in a stituation like the one you outlined here, there's no other way to go than a room within a room. You might decide to play loud (after your neighborhoods agree) till 9PM or something like that and then drop your volume considerably. But if you want to record live instruments (drums, amps) you have no chance than building a decoupled structure from the one you already have. On the other hand, if you work with electronics music (samples, keyboards) and only need to record vocals you can maybe get away with a much less costly solution.

This is just my 2 cents, I'll let the experts chime in for you to get a better understading.

[Weasel9992]

That's a tough room. Not impossible, but tough. You'll need floor-to-ceiling trapping in all the corners you can manage (is that a sheetrocked column in the upper left?) and since it's such a small room, lots of trapping along that broad back wall as well. You didn't give the ceiling height and composition, so I'll assuming sheetrock@8'. You'll need lots more absorption here to avoid inevitable comb filtering from the short returns. That door on the left and the way the room kicks out on the right complicates the first reflection points.

Isolation will also be a big issue. I think the above poster is right...short of floating another room and adding lots of mass you'll bleed right through to at least the floors above. I'm not sure that's practical in a room this small.

I prefer to work with what you've got, so I don't often give this advice, but honestly, if I were you I'd try to find another room if there's any way. I imagine that space is at a premium in Athens, but it might be easier to find another place than to do everything you'd have to do to make this one work.

Good luck,
Frank