My New Studio Build (perhaps overly detailed)

[silky smoove]

Congrats!!! Can't believe you started this thread in August 2015. Neither can you I suppose. My how flime ties.

Actual construction began in June of 2015, only days after having closed and moved into this house. Back then I was telling people “I should be able to have this all wrapped up as we roll into 2016.” Those were the days... so foolish... so young...

The video of me knocking the garage down that previously inhabited the space where the studio now lives was the very first task. Well, aside from getting the construction dumpster on-site. My wife and I had just returned from getting our blood drawn for an annual check-up (that’s what happens when you marry a doctor evidently ). The garage defying physics and falling in the wrong direction, in retrospect, appears to have been an omen regarding the smoothness (or lack thereof) of finishing this project.

 

[silky smoove]

Congrats

Thanks!

 

[silky smoove]

Dude, I think your TB bros are as happy(relieved) to see you through your project!

Congrats!

Awesome accomplishment. Pro all the way.

Thanks!

 

[silky smoove]

The main room isn’t done, but it’s now functional.

 

[silky smoove]

Here’s a highly ineffective sound isolation test:



Getting setup to do the real test:

 

[silky smoove]

Let the testing commence!

 

[Inky13]

With the kit set up, it’s easier to get a sense of scale of the room. Now do that test while you bash away!

 

[silky smoove]

With the kit set up, it’s easier to get a sense of scale of the room. Now do that test while you bash away!

Not huge, but big enough for my needs.

 

[silky smoove]

The inaugural jam

 

[silky smoove]

My iso test


My wife’s iso test to get a second impression

 

[markjazzbassist]

baffle box will make the sound outside null. That’s the only time I heard stuff on the video was close to the back.

Rock on!

 

[beans-on-toast]

I wonder if there would be a difference if you placed the kit close to a corner, playing along a diagonal rather than firing at the back wall.

 

[silky smoove]

I wonder if there would be a difference if you placed the kit close to a corner, playing along a diagonal rather than firing at the back wall.

Definitely in terms of how it sounds in the room, but the isolation should be identical.

 

[silky smoove]

baffle box will make the sound outside null. That’s the only time I heard stuff on the video was close to the back.

Rock on!

Yep. It won’t totally kill it, but it’ll be completely negligible. Honestly, by the time you get to any of my neighbors’ houses it’s already negligible. One car driving by completely wipes it out.

 

[TedH]

The main room isn’t done, but it’s now functional.

#pro

 

[beans-on-toast]

Can you hear any street noise when inside the studio?

Would you expect your isolation to be the same, inside to outside, and outside to inside? That might be difficult to answer, the construction is different depending on the direction.

 

[silky smoove]

Can you hear any street noise when inside the studio?

Nope. There’s a row of house a between me and the nearest street. The next closest street (the one my house is on) is a dead end, so people don’t zoom up and down it. There’s an alley alongside the studio. My neighbors have come and gone today since there cars were there sometimes, and not others, but I couldn’t hear them driving down the alley.

 

[silky smoove]

Would you expect your isolation to be the same, inside to outside, and outside to inside? That might be difficult to answer, the construction is different depending on the direction.

Not hard to answer at all. The ONLY away that the physics of sound isolation works is bi-directionally. The transmission loss plot would be identical in terms of sound escaping versus sound entering.

 

[silky smoove]

 

[silky smoove]

My Trickfish rig in the space. In my old music room this amp took up too much floor space to work comfortably (to give you an idea of the upgrade I’m getting with this new space). In this room it looks tiny!