Garage to Studio conversion

[edup]

Hi guys this is a project I'm starting today, and it would be of much help if you guys would stick with me and help me do it .. ok so let's start with the details...


It's an open garage, so basically I will complete closing it with concrete walls since all the walls are built using concrete,

the Room is aprox 11 wide by 18 long by 9.5 tall

Rectangular shaped

all walls are made of concrete

I have two windows which I have to work something for, one of them is made of glass and aluminum while the other is made of aluminum

Now lets start with some questions...

Floor:

The floor is tiled right now, should I take out those tiles and put hardwood floor, should I put full hardwood floor or half hard wood half carpet or full carpet?

Walls:

Walls are made out of concrete, should I make an inside shell of gybsum board ( is that even spelled correctly lol ) or should I just leave it like that and just treat them later when it comes to acoustic treatment. Also what do you think of filling the walls with R11 and then on top of it build the Gypsum board shell?

Because the studio is going to be next to the living room so I want to attenuate that bleeding sound as much as I can... ( within budget of course)

Windows:

This is one of my main concerns, since this studio was the garage I don't want to affect the look of the house a lot, so basically I want to leave the windows and seal them with some wood or something so an advice in here would be great...


Door:

I'm planning on using son heavy wood double doors for the entrance and then like a small passage and then double sliding doors ( which I'm taking a look at to see which ones I can get) reason for this is that I want the back wall to be acoustically treated, I could get this 2 sliding doors with Mineral wool on them or something like that later without affecting the double doors right? What do you guys think about it?


So that's it for now, after some answers I will post some questions, let me hear your opinion and I'm here to learn thanks again, if any data is needed let me know...

[Ethan Winer]

Originally Posted by edup

The floor is tiled right now, should I take out those tiles and put hardwood floor, should I put full hardwood floor or half hard wood half carpet or full carpet?

Is this for mixing only or recording too? Reflective floors are okay for recording, but for mixing only I'd use carpet. More here:

Surface Reflectivity

I want to leave the windows and seal them with some wood or something

Windows are fine (acoustically) if they're not at reflection points for the speakers.

--Ethan

[edup]

Thanks Ethan , what about the symmetry of the room? should I try to avoid having parallels surfaces as much as I can?

[Ethan Winer]

^^^ Symmetry is important, but parallel surfaces can be treated, so there's less need to angle walls. More here:

How to set up a room

--Ethan