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Post by Johnkenn on Jun 27, 2022 19:40:34 GMT -6
Post some cool ideas if you got em’ Thinking about trying to do some more professional looking treatments. Even like wood on the side walls, etc. I know there are cool acoustic tiles - can’t think of the name of them though.
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Post by Johnkenn on Jun 27, 2022 19:41:48 GMT -6
Or pictures of cool small rooms.
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Post by Martin John Butler on Jun 27, 2022 19:45:35 GMT -6
I was just at the Ruckus Room, (Jamie Tate's studio). Besides the big tracking room and the slightly smaller tracking room, he has a mixing room. I walked in and in a split second I was in love. Something was so right about the design and dimensions you could feel it as soon as you walked into the room. I'll take photos and post when I go back there, (probably next week)
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Post by drumsound on Jun 27, 2022 21:58:52 GMT -6
ON my recent booth redo I went with green crushed velvet on the wall with the window into the live room and purple crushed velvet for the other 4 walls. My live room is a pale blue and my control room is a deepish green.
For the love of god and creativity avoid tans, bone, taupe, and all those other terrible bland bullshit 'colors.'
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Post by robschnapf on Jun 28, 2022 4:57:10 GMT -6
Sky lights. Keep the body clock right.
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Post by christophert on Jun 28, 2022 5:27:41 GMT -6
Sky lights. Keep the body clock right. 100% |
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Post by Johnkenn on Jun 28, 2022 12:33:07 GMT -6
I was just at the Ruckus Room, (Jamie Tate's studio). Besides the big tracking room and the slightly smaller tracking room, he has a mixing room. I walked in and in a split second I was in love. Something was so right about the design and dimensions you could feel it as soon as you walked into the room. I'll take photos and post when I go back there, (probably next week) The main tracking room and control room still looked like 1982 last time I was there. |
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Post by drumsound on Jun 28, 2022 13:49:17 GMT -6
Sky lights. Keep the body clock right. I'm more of a 'permanent midnight' idea guy. |
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Post by Quint on Jun 28, 2022 21:35:26 GMT -6
Sky lights. Keep the body clock right. Agreed. Daylight is nice. |
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Post by seawell on Jun 29, 2022 2:58:47 GMT -6
Sky lights. Keep the body clock right. Couldn’t agree more! Spent the first several years of my career working out of a basement studio with no natural light and man it just drains you! |
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Post by drbill on Jun 29, 2022 9:28:49 GMT -6
Yes agreed!! I designed the new CRM to include daylight. It was a design imperative. When told I couldn't do that by several designers, I moved on to a designer (hedback) who also embraced daylight esthetic's. Can't live without it.
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Post by svart on Jun 29, 2022 9:32:02 GMT -6
Bright. Light colored, preferably neutral colors. Lots of high CRI lights.
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Post by elmolemon on Jun 29, 2022 10:14:11 GMT -6
Looking at a studio as a creative space I believe that lighting, colors and vibe are *very* important. I like color concepts, design objects and personal items. My favourite spaces have a lot of personal and individual vibe, but even commercial studios don’t have to be bland and sterile. I think it’s great if a studio visit is an inspiring experience.
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Post by Omicron9 on Jun 29, 2022 11:31:50 GMT -6
Post some cool ideas if you got em’ Thinking about trying to do some more professional looking treatments. Even like wood on the side walls, etc. I know there are cool acoustic tiles - can’t think of the name of them though. Johnkenn, I recently started this thread which could provide some design ideas: realgearonline.com/thread/14310/interesting-studio-designs-09 |
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Post by Omicron9 on Jun 29, 2022 11:33:42 GMT -6
Sky lights. Keep the body clock right. I'm more of a 'permanent midnight' idea guy. Adding "Permanent Midnight" to list of possible future band names.  |
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Post by ericn on Jun 29, 2022 12:25:55 GMT -6
For you John there are 2 ways to go.
1 Since your not hiring the room without you, a vibe that gets you in the mood and creative.
2 stay generic and let the artist bring in some stuff that makes them happy.
The problem with every vibey room I have ever worked in is it turns as many off as on.
Honestly the best approach for you is the middle ground, set a bit of a vibe but keep it so someone can set their own vibe. I would probably start with some cheap LED color changing strips. In fact in my mind I can see your A frame space with white traps used like a cyc with dirt cheap LEDs and use a second set for main lighting.
See mom that time in theater school did pay off😎
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Post by Johnkenn on Jun 29, 2022 12:53:53 GMT -6
For you John there are 2 ways to go. 1 Since your not hiring the room without you, a vibe that gets you in the mood and creative. 2 stay generic and let the artist bring in some stuff that makes them happy. The problem with every vibey room I have ever worked in is it turns as many off as on. Honestly the best approach for you is the middle ground, set a bit of a vibe but keep it so someone can set their own vibe. I would probably start with some cheap LED color changing strips. In fact in my mind I can see your A frame space with white traps used like a cyc with dirt cheap LEDs and use a second set for main lighting. See mom that time in theater school did pay off😎 I don’t really care what the client thinks about how my room looks lol. It’s more for me. This is basically just a mixing room with a vocal mic in it. |
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Post by elmolemon on Jun 29, 2022 16:54:01 GMT -6
While it’s probably not for everybody, Jack Antonoff showed in a quite impressive way how you can even rock the wallpaper design you had in your childhood bedroom and still work with impressive A level clients. www.soundonsound.com/people/jack-antonoff?ampHe made his room quite unique and turned it into an inspiring place for him and his collaborators. And I think that’s great! But to be fair: That’s the personal home studio of a six Grammy award winning producer and not a regular commercial studio. And yes, rooms like this will turn some people off. But I still like vibey studios! Here is another great example of a unique place I’d love to work in: |
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Post by Bat Lanyard on Jun 30, 2022 11:19:16 GMT -6
My room where I do our tunes. There's a thread on the build here as well. I had intentions to make the diffusors on the back wall movable to have the option of allowing light in but with my time constraints on the build it became too tedious (ceiling left unfinished as well for now).    
Edit: I'd definitely run the cables through the walls MKII. Just overlooked some things in the rush. |
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Post by gwlee7 on Jun 30, 2022 13:40:37 GMT -6
My room where I do our tunes. There's a thread on the build here as well. I had intentions to make the diffusors on the back wall movable to have the option of allowing light in but with my time constraints on the build it became too tedious (ceiling left unfinished as well for now).
Edit: I'd definitely run the cables through the walls MKII. Just overlooked some things in the rush. I have visited Bat’s place in person. It’s fucking awesome. |
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Post by Bat Lanyard on Jun 30, 2022 16:23:06 GMT -6
I have visited Bat’s place in person. It’s fucking awesome. Thanks, man! We need to get together again soon so you can borrow that Serrano 87 to try out. |
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Post by notneeson on Jun 30, 2022 16:53:59 GMT -6
I have visited Bat’s place in person. It’s fucking awesome. Thanks, man! We need to get together again soon so you can borrow that Serrano 87 to try out. Is there a scheme to the size of the large slats? (Not the rear diffuser). |
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Post by Bat Lanyard on Jun 30, 2022 20:56:51 GMT -6
Thanks, man! We need to get together again soon so you can borrow that Serrano 87 to try out. Is there a scheme to the size of the large slats? (Not the rear diffuser). Not with what I built. I eyeballed a studio control room for my first build (this is the second) from a place in Florida based on a photo and went with what they had on the walls. I'll dig that up and edit with a link. The first room I built I just went with it and things translated well. My approach was make it room inside a room and totally ear-hurting dead and then bring it out with slats. Let the bass bleed through as much as possible and trap. So when I dismantled and moved that room into this room I just went with what was working well. And it was also Covid and building materials were super high, so move and reuse was the operative. With this room I also went for surfaces to be out of parallel as possible. There's only 18" or so of ceiling that mates with the floor but the walls are all angled so those things vary enough to reduce reflections and buildup. As far as I know, lol. The other aspect of the approach was that with varied slat sizes and spacing the goal is to control certain frequencies, etc. I didn't have the expertise or time to measure and test, measure and test based on the size of the interior room. So not knowing what to control I didn't go into the science of trying to control it. Hope that makes sense. Kinda like monitors, get them in a space you know is relatively treated at minimum and learn it from there. |
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Post by notneeson on Jun 30, 2022 22:35:30 GMT -6
Is there a scheme to the size of the large slats? (Not the rear diffuser). Not with what I built. I eyeballed a studio control room for my first build (this is the second) from a place in Florida based on a photo and went with what they had on the walls. I'll dig that up and edit with a link. The first room I built I just went with it and things translated well. My approach was make it room inside a room and totally ear-hurting dead and then bring it out with slats. Let the bass bleed through as much as possible and trap. So when I dismantled and moved that room into this room I just went with what was working well. And it was also Covid and building materials were super high, so move and reuse was the operative. With this room I also went for surfaces to be out of parallel as possible. There's only 18" or so of ceiling that mates with the floor but the walls are all angled so those things vary enough to reduce reflections and buildup. As far as I know, lol. The other aspect of the approach was that with varied slat sizes and spacing the goal is to control certain frequencies, etc. I didn't have the expertise or time to measure and test, measure and test based on the size of the interior room. So not knowing what to control I didn't go into the science of trying to control it. Hope that makes sense. Kinda like monitors, get them in a space you know is relatively treated at minimum and learn it from there. Yeah totally, I have been pondering something kind of similar, thus the question. |
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Post by Bat Lanyard on Jun 30, 2022 23:53:39 GMT -6
Yeah totally, I have been pondering something kind of similar, thus the question. Hopefully, from my end, the takeaway is that you can build a pretty amazing room if you have some tool ability and a space. The outside space I have is approximately 17.5 x 14.25 x 12 ft. Interior, around 13.5 x 10.5 x 9.5 at the height of the curve. My space cost less than 3K to build (see edit). Guilford fabric was a part of it and after having burlap in my first room, I really feel the Guilford made a difference. If I were not ready for a total room makeover and you're trying to control stuff, build some of the Acoustic Fields traps. Don't know them and feel the videos he puts out are a bit too sales oriented but the tall traps I built for the back I feel contribute to the sound of the room. Just my opinion though. Edit: built it myself |
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