Soundman2020 - Studio Design Forum

Hi Stuart. Thanks for your advice! So it's a combination of ears and REW that will help you treat your place. Thank you and that makes sense. I ordered this mic Screen Shot 2020-07-02 at 6.40.39 PM.png I have an XLR to USB adapter so I can plug the Dayton mic into my computer. Can I use my headphone...

Time for doors. Started on June 4th. I hired Tom, a recommended local carpenter. Up until then I was using the GC's builders. The GC gave me a credit for four pre-hung solid core doors and 4 hours labor. Tom was $35 less per hour than the others. He also read and studied all of my door plans I sent ...

Not sure why but some of those last photos were rotated. Here are more.

Thanks Lucio! I have been watching yours too! So nice to have this forum to share with each other. Most people where I live think I am crazy. Here are more photos. 14 Wall insulation.jpg 15 Ceiling insulation 1.jpg 16 Ceiling insulation 2.jpg 17 Ceiling Insulatin 3.jpg 18 Wall drywall.jpg 19 Window ...

I am coming here from the recording studio construction posting on this forum. You can see my photos and my journey there under New Studio Build Underway. I have a few things left to do for construction, but now I am turning my attention towards treatment. My space is 24ft long x16ft wide x 9ft-3inc...

Hi Starlight! Great to see your progress. You are just a tad behind me but you have a bigger more involved space. I hear what you are saying about people fitting your project in when they can. I have experienced a lot of that too. It can be frustrating but there's not much we can do. I look forward ...

A picture is worth a thousand words. In this case 50 pictures! I will spread them out over the next few posts. HOWIE-1 Sub Panel.jpg 2 Water_Sewage Ditch.jpg 5 Inner Leaf Ceiling Joists.jpg HOWIE-3 Electric Side of House.jpg 4 Wiring.jpg HOWIE-6 Wiring 2.jpg HOWIE-7 Wiring 3.jpg 8 Insulation.jpg 9 I...

Hi Everyone, Well we live in interesting times. I hope everyone is staying healthy wherever you live. Miraculously my studio build has continued even though we have had a shelter-in-place order for many weeks now and the GC pulled his guys from my job four weeks ago because he said he needed to make...

What do you think these doors cost to build? I need four and I got a bid for $3000 or $750 per door plus materials.

Electrical question: Electrician said code allows for Romex to be used in walls. Any issues with bypassing conduit and just going with Romex? Stuart suggests using conduit with rubber in-between. Any way of using Romex with rubber and no conduit? I tried to upload a jpg of Stuart's sketch of running...

did they say how they managed to make sliders differently to other manufacturers, or did they not go into detail? The salesperson couldn't tell me. Online the owner of the company said they use spring-loaded seals in their windows. Not sure if that is the reason for the high isolation from the slid...

I doubt it. Even Stuart's tables don't go below 80. They claim they make the only sliders with that kind of isolation.

Here is their test results. STC-Results-Soundproof-Studio.jpg The windows I ordered were a pair of operable SPW650s and they would be in a 10" space. Here are the comparison numbers for 80-5000hz. The operable seems to perform better except at 250hz. That seems counter intuitive. Am I reading t...

that salesman is just not very well informed if he told you that operable windows isolate for studios as well as fixed ones do. He didn't make a general statement but he said the company's windows tested the same. I have to believe they are only talking about STC data. When I mentioned that his sol...