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Professional sound studio2/18/2024 Many properties simply are not suitable: rooms with flimsy stud walls and beamed wooden floors are unlikely ever to be made sufficiently solid to be able to stop the sound of a full-on band migrating to neighbouring rooms. If you are not on the ground floor, all the issues are made more difficult, as any weight you add will need to be supported by the existing floor: a real concern and potential major expense. Some of these thrown-together rooms can sound OK, and be reasonably successful at producing acceptable results - but if they do, it's blind luck! I have been in many rooms that will never be right no matter how much time is spent on them, either because they are fundamentally the wrong shape and/or because they are constructed from inappropriate materials.īuilding a studio always requires a certain amount of work, and often involves reducing the existing dimensions as you put in double walls, floating floors and extra ceilings in an attempt to isolate the recording space from the surrounding structure. We all know studios that are nothing more than a convenient collection of cheap rooms with some carpet on the walls, foam on the ceilings and, if you are lucky, bass traps. I inevitably wish that they had come to me before they signed the lease! I am often asked by bands I work with if I can help sort out their rehearsal rooms, so they can practice without disturbing the neighbours and do demo recordings there. Experienced professionals can come up with solutions in minutes to problems that might otherwise plague you for years.Īlthough I'm not a professional studio builder, I have worked as a sound engineer for many years, both live and in the studio. The basic plan for Jon Burton's Laundry Rooms studio complex, as devised by Recording Architecture. If you're looking to build a studio, there's masses of information out there - but no substitutes for professional advice and experience.
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