My New Studio Build ! All advice will be much appreciated !

Hi all

I have become lucky enough to now have my own studio Ive called it  Sanctuary Studio.

I have the live room and control room in a rehersal room called Red Eye Studio !
http://www.redeyestudios.co.uk/

Red Eye has been there for about 20 years with the same owner and has been run in to the ground.
It has finaly been bought over by a friend of mine who will be runing the 2 rehearsal rooms.( still under the name red eye )

He shall be doing the building work on the rooms and I wil be doing my Control Room Etc.. So today I went in and started guting out the controll room takeing the false roof off that the last owner had put in.

I thought it would be cool to put up pics here from start to finish as I do more work and hope some of you can offer advice on accoustic treatment for the Control room

Just so you know nothing in the Control room is mine and I am geting rid of it all as soon as the owner comes to claim it.

The photos arent the best but it will give you an Idea of what I am aiming for


This is the view walking in the studio front door that is a safe door and everything needs painted and carpets on the floor.


Here we turn right in to the live room go in to that open door to the control room. Again all needs painted


This is the entrance to the control room behind the old green curtains on the left there is slideing doors that go in to what will be a chill out room.



Front wall of the Control room towards the live room. The roof above I have taken down today.


Back wall of control room looking through the slideing doors in to what will be a chill out room



Control room now with the old roof down ready for my new suspended roof and for a new out side window to be put in.



Inside of the live room. The plan here is to build a new room in side this room and keep the wood on the back wall behind the drum Riser ( fanastic sound in this room )

Well thats all so far got a lot of work to be geting on with and I hope to have it all finished in the next few weeks

I shall up load some pics as I do the building work paint and start geting the gear all put in.

Has any one any suggestions on Furniture for the Control room ? Its 3500mm across and 3250mm wide

Also any recomendations as to where I should think about puting accoustic foam in the control room would be a great help !

Thanks for reading if you got this far

Norrie :)

Oh wow, you've got your work cut out for you, lol.  Still, I'm sure it will be real nice when done.

Sorry, I don't have enough knowledge to answer any of the questions you asked.

Good  luck !

Thanks Kroeborge

Its going to keep me busy for a while thats for sure :)

Cool!  I love these type of before and after threads!  If I were you, I'd steal, er, borrow heavily from the look and feel that drumstixkev did.  You DO have a lot to do, but the place looks like it has the potential to be really nice.

http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=2272065

I'd love to see how that will progress.

It does look like you will have a lot of work ahead...what kinds of wall treatments are you thinking of using? Sound proofing?...oh my...

Thanks for all the coment all !

Ive seen kevs build it is fanastic !

At the momment I am thinking I might make a custom oak work station in the control room and keep it nice and clutter free !

Lava lamps are a must haha !

The live room at the momment is sound proof and has accoustic tiles for the walls and has a fanastic sound but because its so old and well lets just say Sh*t looking I am going to use sound Block and make a room in a room and then get a room kit in there !

I am not sure and hopeing for some advice about accoustic treatment for the controll room since that slideing door will be right behind me ( I will be puting big heavy curtains there though ) I am think ing a univrsal audio room kit greay and purple for the control room wals and painting the walls a slate gray like kevs.

I left the construction industry to go full time with the music and I feel like Ive landed right back in my old job haha

Norrie

Hey NORRIE . . . Congrats on the new space.  This is so cool I can't wait to see the outcome .  Sounds like you know what the place needs and how to do it.  I took alot of short cuts on my build but I did what I could on the budget I had.  Plus my place is just for my hobby from the real world.  Best of luck and I look forward to seeing the finished studio.

Kev
P.S.  I'm no expert but be careful NOT to make your contorl room totally dead. I was told the front half of your room should be the dead half and the back should be diffussed

Thanks to all for the kind words I wish you could all take a holiday once its finished and come up to scotland and help me do the recording testing once all my gear is in.

Kev I know the feeling I am on a tight budget my self at the momment I wasnt exspecting to be in a place for the next 6 months so its come around a bit to quick but where theres will theres a way :)

I might have to fire you a pm and ask what shade of Gray paint you used in your build ;) I think it would go very well with the Purple universal audio foam and oak look I am hopeing to go for !

Mike electrics is one thing I actualy wont touch I have a band memmber who is a electrician though so hes going to take care of that side of things and theres a company comeing in middle of next week for the electrical tests and paper work thats needing done by law.

I still have a couple of things to buy for opening and that is a head phone am and my Octo-Capture I am very lucky and have just been endorsed by Audix mics ! I recived my first I5 from them yesterday so I will be trying that out tomorrow and I will be geting a nice set of the DP7 Drum mics and and extra couple of mics for around the studio to add to my colection.

I am excited but its a lot to take on all at once but it will make a change from this set up




Once again thanks to everyone for all the kind words !

Norrie

If it did, could you always put some type of sound deadner up there?  I'm thinking it would be something like a corner in a room (not that I'm an expert)

In an ideal world none of the room surfaces would be parallel to prevent resonance. If you're refering to the ceiling visible in picture 3 in your first post then I'd say this is exactly how you want it.

Hi all a few photos of how the new studio is coming along

I still need to do acoustic treatment in the controll room and live room I also need to sort out the floor in the live room give it a carpet etc....

Can any one offer advice on placement for acoustic treatment in the control room ?

Control Room -



Control Room Through a fish eye


My Mapex in the Live Room

Live room and me

Thanks for the kind words Old55

Norrie

Hi Ohgrant !

Thanks for the kind words

I need to get some more lava lamps in there.... a big floor standing one coming through the desk is the plan for the future. Cant have enough lava lamps

Hey there Kev !

Its no where near as cool as your new space !

That looks great, Norrie!  :)