Building a new studio in basement

[kickinwing65]

I'm getting a house soon and having a basement installed. I'm thinking of the styrofill stuff that has essentially studs built in so you can drywall it. the basement will be 24'x56'. I want to use one half of the basement and it will be 10' deep. Not sure where to start on designs and what not and I need to know how i should go about things. the last studio I built was preexisting and not done correctly. Since it is a new basement, I want to do it as best as I can. it will have a outside staircase with doors.

 

[MetalJonesy]

main concern is how high it is?

as for any soundproofing (if required) to avoide travel upstairs, is gnna require a room height of at least 3 m.

I'm currently reading a great book called Recording Studio Design by Philip Newell.

Covers everything!

There are some other great threads on the Sneap forum, i haven't the time to go searching and find em, but they are there!

 

[beyond dead]

if space is a problem, look into this stuff : http://www.quietrock.com/ Im going to use it in my studio, because I have 10 foot ceilings as well, and I want to use as little space as possible. it is supposed to eliminate the need for resilient channel, and multiple layers of drywall/soundboard. I am going to fix the quiet rock to strips of resilient channel just to be safe.

 

[Paulie!]

Quiet Rock, I believe, is the equivilent of 8 sheets of drywall.. good product from what I've heard, once I get into a house I plan on using it.

OP, you should also check out the John Sayers forum, great amount of info on that site for building studios. They have some good sample designs and alot of people post their own layouts and stuff that you can get some inspiration from.

-Paul

 

[Autumn09]

There are a lots of option and ideas for studio...but first of all how much space you have.. otherwise i am sharing here some basement ideas for your convenience... http://www.basementideas.org/top-basement-ideas.html

 

[::XeS::]

How do you deal with ceiling height? I see lot of studio built in a basement or in very low rooms...but here in Italy the minimum height in a house is 2.40m and 3m for a commercial activity (and it's pretty crazy if you wanna do a studio, because you need 3m after the sound insulation..it means an original height of 3.50m/4m....)

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Ceiling height is a cunt. Love the fuck out of all the new space I now have, hate the fact that I went from 8' ceilings to 7'.

Even 8' ceilings kind of sucked, but it sure as fuck was better that what I have going on now.

 

[GeertSamuel]

With the new studio I'm building I've got low ceilings. My acoustician says it's preferable to have a higher ceiling, but with a low ceiling you just have more work treating it.

My new control room ceiling is 2.25 meter (final) and live room is slanted from 2.55 to 2.2.

 

[MarkG]

With the new studio I'm building I've got low ceilings. My acoustician says it's preferable to have a higher ceiling, but with a low ceiling you just have more work treating it.

My new control room ceiling is 2.25 meter (final) and live room is slanted from 2.55 to 2.2.

Holy crap thats low. I'd get claustrophobic