"Studio" Help

[bobbydazzler]

Hi,Apologies if this has been covered, I have searched through the available threads and cannot see anything like it... but then again I do not have my glasses on! I am having some work done at my house, and when it is finished I will be left with a room with the dimensions of roughly:5m x 4m x 2.2mThe walls of the room are made from sandstone with a smooth cement render and the floor will be concreted.The only "LIVE" recording I will be doing is Acoustic Guitar and Vocals (possibly elec guitar). All the rest will be via DI or Midi.I'm planning on putting in a floating floor (Laminate/timber) and hanging fabric (curtains?) on the walls. Will this work ok? Could I just throw a large rug over the concrete floor?Any other tips would be greatly appreciated....(especially cost effective ones LOL!)CheersBD

[kouly]

I would not use a thin fabric on the walls. Anything like carpet might work.You want a thicker fabric or the high frequencies will go right through it and bounce off the walls. If you do use a carpet type material on all the surfacesthe room may end up very dead with no ambiance of its own in which case youhave to be able to add the acoustic treatment in whatever you are using for a DAW.

[andreh]

Bobby-Is this room for tracking, mixing, or both? Neither drapes nor carpet will eliminate unwanted reflections or resonances in the mid and lower frequency ranges, which are as important to address as high frequencies if you hope to achieve any balanced mixes in your space.If you're going to do any construction, it should be to offset the parallel walls in your space rather than to lift the floor IMO; you're likely going to have a lot of low end problems in a rectangular room like that (like most of us do).I recommend you read this forum for a few days before you do anything:http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/index.phpAs you'll see, you can do a whole lot to treat your room with rockwool (a.k.a. pressed fiberglass, a.k.a. "OC [Owens-Corning] 703") which happily turns out to be relatively cheap.If you have some specific questions after reading the articles and posts from the forum above, post 'em here and send me a PM.Andre

[bobbydazzler]

thanks for that guys... Andre I'll check out the link.. thanks.. I've got plenty of time before this space will be available so I can get up to speed.. btw I'll be using the room for tracking and mixing...