Building a Studio and recording boot

if i remember correct you can google how to make selfmade basstraps.

Most professional studio's have three rooms.

1. Recoring room
2. Mixing Room
3. Machine room The machine room is a small chamber where your computers are. This is done to isolate the sound from the computer fans thus making the other rooms silent. You can build the machine room in wood and put enough isolation on the inside. Be sure not to forget about cooling. Maybe you cold build it agains an inner wal in which you make a hole (with a fan) so the heat from the computer can escape.

make sure the walls aren't parallel in the recording room...

there is a a good prog on excell for calcul the absorbtion by Schmerber Bertrand you can download it on this page :

http://b.schmerber.9online.fr/pages_div/index.htm

it can also help for create helmholtz resonator (bass trap)

if you talk french this is a good ressource : http://p_carre.club.fr/patacou/index.htm also : http://www.homecinema-fr.com/bible/audio/acoustique_hc.php

for isolation there isn't many solutions which isn't expensive. you need to have wall which are heavy

Wow, Thanks Guys,

This is some great information. ALready looked up a lot on Google, but there are a lot of different oppinions about isolating the boot. I was thinking in putting a fat rubber layer on the floor (about 5 cm's) and building a second room on there wich would be the recording boot. I've also heard you could isolate with natural products (e.g sand, wood, ...) , does anybody know something about this? Maybe there are some constructions workers here who can help me to get the right materials (at the right place). 

It's gona take some time to complete, but I've already got 4 bands who are interested in recording here.

Thanks again, all extra info/help is welcome!

homerecording.be

Originally posted by : Midiot

homerecording.be  

Already now that site and surfin' it :) I've contacted some engineers for this, and I've got some ideas to start. Does anyone know where I could buy acousting insolation (new or second hand) I've already surfed some german websites. (Musik Service and Music Store), but maybe someone knows a cheaper solution?

you can come to visite the silent-block studio totaly DYW studio

Originally posted by : brandtkalk

you can come to visite the silent-block studio totaly DYW studio  > Cool, i've checked your nice website. I'll send you an pm.

I'm now urgently searching for nearfield monitors. Very important they don't color the sound to much. A friend of mine has Yamaha HS80M Monitors, they sound great but, tend to color the sound a bit to much. I've also checked out some site's and forums to find Alesis M1 Aktive MK2's are very good for their price tag. Obviosly I'm not going to buy Genelec's yet (unless somebody sold them for a very nice price -- dreaming now :p ). What about others like Adam, KRK, Tannoy, Fostex and M-audio (maybe missing one or two) Thanks!

i use fostex NF-1 ( these are not sold anymore ) and they kick some major ass ( quality = equal to mackie monitors )....

if you find a pair of these, don't hesitate....

mackie of course is great too, bear in mind the fostex nf-1 and macjie's are expensive.....

the other models from fostex i don't know, they made a new nf range, but i haven't heard them yet ( but reviews tell me that they can't compete with the nf1 series )

krk are very good as well, but you'll have to go check them out with a cd containing music you know by heart, so you can have a test

if you can afford KRK, i'd say , do it ( but listen first, they have cheap speakers and expensive ones, and off course ther's a difference in quality )

but if you want to build a semi-pro studio and really invest in that ( for a normal basic home studio, it's not all that important ), don't buy cheap monitors....

your monitoring system is the core of your studio....