Soundman2020 - Studio Design Forum

After several months of using my room I thought it would be a good time for an update about the next steps in the design. The first thing is that I am enjoying using the room and in the main producing mixes that are balanced. The Neumann KH310 monitors are so forgiving (not flattering, just very abl...

Arghh not another studio with a French drain! That's what mine has. This build looks amazing and I wish I had those views from my place. It will be amazing to be working in that room. Good luck with ensuring the water doesn't leak in. If where it leaks in is going to be behind an inside room wall, o...

Looks good Sam and I’m glad my plans and our call have helped. Everyone I told about my concrete base said it was probably over engineered but I’m guessing with two entire structure’s worth of weight (inner and outer walls and roofs) on the edge of the concrete over engineered is a good thing. The a...

I don’t have any more video than what I posted, although if I do more build work I’ll try and capture that too. The fifteen minutes watching the video makes it look so easy!! Nice idea, Jennifer, I am not sure I know anyone with such a tool, but perhaps they can be rented… will investigate. As we ar...

I guess shops above are the perfect neighbours for a studio for the reasons you’ve explained!

It’ll be really interesting to see the measurements in a month or so.

Cheers
Gareth

Thanks! I don’t need to tell you guys how much work self building a studio is… It is indeed a raised flowerbed, and will have some space for growing vegetables. The guys who did the groundworks were landscapers (my next door neighbour!) so we got them to do the raised bed and lift our patio at the s...

I’ve finally uploaded all my time lapse build videos. There are 6 in total each about 1-2 minutes long so they don’t really make it look as much work as it was over 6 months!

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlPB ... Jq1EARiDCa

Enjoy

Nice result. Are you able to see how loud it is above (assuming there are rooms above)?

Cheers
Gareth

Hi Now the weather has cooled a little in England the airflow situation seems OK - with the fan on full blowing air into the room, with just me in the room CO2 levels are staying around 650ppm when it's warm outside, and lower when cooler. No idea what I should expect, but at that I can feel a gentl...

Just as an FYI the warm roof is the design that doesn’t require ventilation between the rafters, so is much easier to seal than a cold. This is what I went for…
Cheers
Gareth

Hi Sam Your build sounds very similar to mine. Whereabouts are you? I would gladly share the benefit of my experience having nearly completed something similar and some of the mistakes I made that you might be able to avoid. Send me a pm if you want to arrange a call or something. Stuart is spot on ...

I only have one fan and changed it to blow rather than suck yesterday. This did seem to be better than having it extract air.

I did wonder about a two fan system. Definitely worth considering.

Thanks!
Gareth

I have the fan connected to a variable speed controller and at the lowest setting it seems ok for me on my own in the room. However I was in there for all of today with a client and the temperature and co2 rose leading me to increase fan speed. I feel like there is a partial blockage or something in...

Thanks for the kind words, Starlight. For completeness this is the final replacement fan: https://www.justfans.co.uk/td500-mixvent-150mm-td500-p-202.html I am just frustrated more than anything - I ended up wasting over £200 on a fan that is too loud, I made a mess cutting the 150mm holes as I ended...

Well what a mess I made of this job! The new 150mm external fan I bought needed me to cut away at the plastic fascia board I had installed to make the front of the building look nice. I managed to do this with my jigsaw and got a pretty good clean cut. I then had to widen the hole that connects to t...