I got to go check out a room yesterday afternoon at our old YMCA, which is now the local Fine Arts Building. I will end up sharing this room with a few people, which is amicable, as it will reduce the cost of rental per month.
The room is actually two rooms, separated by a 6' entryway. Ceilings are 8' tall. Dimensions of the main room are 35'x18', and the secondary room is 13'x16'. Main room is carpeted, secondary room is old wood flooring (gym style). The room is $300/mo (including power & heat + use of bathroom/water down the hall).
I pretty much have the splitting of cost thing down, as there will be 2 drummers looking to have a place to come practice, a drum teacher, and a guitar teacher, and myself looking to have a small studio in the place. Being a tenant allows 24 hr access, which is a plus for those of us wanting to make lots of noise at ungodly hours of the night.
Here's the catch. It's on the 4th floor, with classrooms above and below it. It also has outside walls, which means possible neighborhood noise complaints from people playing drums/cranking amps.
Here's my plan/wish: I want to make isolation booths. I started looking on johnlsayers.com for ideas, but I'd like some input here as well. Here's some pics of the rooms layout for those who care:
So, since I'm sharing this room with 4 other people, I had some ideas (I've yet to talk to them about this, so it's just tenative). Since there are two guys wanting to do lessons, the smaller room area could go as a 'teaching room' and minimal sound dampening could be applied. The equation of a drumset in there, being played while classes above and below are happening, is still problematic unless treated.
I would like to make somewhat of an isolated control room, with sight into another isolated booth so I can have eye contact with a drummer for example. I basically need to isolate this from the floor as much as anything. I actually don't know what goes on and when on the floor above us, but they were explicit about the classroom downstairs having classes often.
Short of buying an isolation booth outright for thousands of dollars (which I cannot afford, especially if I'm looking to share the room with people to defray the costs of rent), I think the most cost effective and personalized way to do this is to make my own isolation booths.
Any thoughts, folks?
The room is actually two rooms, separated by a 6' entryway. Ceilings are 8' tall. Dimensions of the main room are 35'x18', and the secondary room is 13'x16'. Main room is carpeted, secondary room is old wood flooring (gym style). The room is $300/mo (including power & heat + use of bathroom/water down the hall).
I pretty much have the splitting of cost thing down, as there will be 2 drummers looking to have a place to come practice, a drum teacher, and a guitar teacher, and myself looking to have a small studio in the place. Being a tenant allows 24 hr access, which is a plus for those of us wanting to make lots of noise at ungodly hours of the night.
Here's the catch. It's on the 4th floor, with classrooms above and below it. It also has outside walls, which means possible neighborhood noise complaints from people playing drums/cranking amps.
Here's my plan/wish: I want to make isolation booths. I started looking on johnlsayers.com for ideas, but I'd like some input here as well. Here's some pics of the rooms layout for those who care:
So, since I'm sharing this room with 4 other people, I had some ideas (I've yet to talk to them about this, so it's just tenative). Since there are two guys wanting to do lessons, the smaller room area could go as a 'teaching room' and minimal sound dampening could be applied. The equation of a drumset in there, being played while classes above and below are happening, is still problematic unless treated.
I would like to make somewhat of an isolated control room, with sight into another isolated booth so I can have eye contact with a drummer for example. I basically need to isolate this from the floor as much as anything. I actually don't know what goes on and when on the floor above us, but they were explicit about the classroom downstairs having classes often.
Short of buying an isolation booth outright for thousands of dollars (which I cannot afford, especially if I'm looking to share the room with people to defray the costs of rent), I think the most cost effective and personalized way to do this is to make my own isolation booths.
Any thoughts, folks?
