Translate This PageUmm, hi! I'm George, I live near Seattle which is in the north west part of the United States in a state called Washington - short driving distance away from the much more polite Canadians - and have been involved in audio engineering, recording, mixing, voiceover, and session work for a couple dozen years now.
When we moved to this house, my five year plan was to build a multi room recording studio in the decently large detached garage here. That was ten years ago.
Many of you are familiar with the story of life, kids, work, etc all getting in the way. Those things are still a bit in the way. But a recent natural disaster storm here kinda lit a fire in my keester to start to more actively pursue the plan. With my wife's approval. Without that, this post doesn't exist.
To that end and to get back up and running temporarily in one of the rooms that needs to have all the drywall removed due to water taken on from storm damage, I'm going to repurpose that room inside out (originally inspired by a studio in Burbank, CA designed by John with inside out everything, reaffirmed by Stuarts inside out ceiling post). Once all the drywall is fully removed I'll start the REW process in the room completely barren, then again after I've done the stuffing. For my purposes right now, sound isolation is not too much of a concern either in or out. The volume i mix at is not blistering and I have a separate vocal booth for when isolation is needed. My goal is to tune the space to be more pleasant/accurate to mix and master in. Isolation will come down the road when it's time for things like a live/drum room. Once the drywall is down, I'll start a thread in design with some space measurements and REW results.
I did have one question for anyone who can remember this from the old forum. One of the studios constructed had a massive steel I-beam running right through the outer leaf shell building and was visible inside the inner leaf rooms. They somehow managed to decouple it from transmitting sound to the outside and I haven't been able to find references to it anywhere. If anyone can recall that and has suggestions for how that was done, it'll be relevant later when it comes to design. My building has two fairly large collar ties that a contractor is pretty sure should not be tweaked so while scheming I wanted to try to incorporate decoupling ideas along with possible other ways of working around it.
Ok, wall of text done! Thanks so much to all of you for keeping this very niche studio design corner of the Internet alive. Back to reading Rod's book for the hundredth time...
-= george =-
then added some enhancements upstairs and routed audio and digital lines so those spaces could accommodate up to 25 orchestral instrument performers... 